Our innovative PhD project focuses on Heat-as-a-Service (HaaS), a ground-breaking approach to ensuring warm homes while tackling fuel poverty and supporting the transition to low-carbon heating solutions.

Why This Project Matters: Fuel poverty affects millions of people in the UK, and with the rising cost of living and the urgent need to decarbonise, finding sustainable heating solutions is more critical than ever. HaaS offers a range of services designed to provide affordable and efficient heating, but its effective deployment remains a challenge. This project aims to bridge that gap by developing comprehensive solutions that can be implemented across the UK.

Aims & objectives

• Explore and Evaluate: Deep dive into existing HaaS definitions, policies, pilots, and business models. Analyse their effectiveness and adaptability in today's fast-changing policy landscape.
• Identify Barriers and Benefits: Assess governance, ownership, and financial barriers to HaaS adoption. Investigate additional benefits such as energy system flexibility and health improvements.
• Develop Sustainable Solutions: Calculate economically viable cost/tariff levels for HaaS. Co-create innovative frameworks and business models to make HaaS accessible and affordable, ensuring a just transition to low-carbon heat.

Be part of a dynamic research team dedicated to making a difference. Your work will contribute to a fair and equitable transition to low-carbon heating, helping to alleviate fuel poverty and improve lives.

Further information

The successful candidate will join a growing team of world-class researchers, academics and knowledge exchange professionals at the University of Strathclyde’s Centre for Energy Policy (CEP).
CEP investigates the economy-wide and societal outcomes of different pathways and actions to reach net zero.