The SYSC Consolidated Research Report is the culmination of four years' work, showcasing the full breadth and depth of the findings of the South Yorkshire Sustainability Centre.
Documents
South Yorkshire Sustainability Centre Consolidated Research Report (PDF)
South Yorkshire Sustainability Centre Consolidated Research Report (Page turner)
Executive report (Foreword, Executive Summary and Narrative Reports) (PDF)
Residential Energy Systems (PDF)
- Demand Flexibility to Support the Electrification of Heat and Transport
- Decarbonisation of Residential Heat for the South Yorkshire Region
- Towards a Faster, Fairer and more Popular Transition to Clean Heat in South Yorkshire
- Hybrid Renewable Power Systems for Net-Zero: Life Cycle Evidence for Integrating Solar, Wind, Geothermal, and Perovskite Solar Cells
- Enabling Community Energy in South Yorkshire
- Domestic Energy Use: Drivers of Energy Decadence
- Novel Storage and Control Technologies for Decarbonisation of Domestic Heat
- Heat Network Zoning and the Alignment of Profit and Equity in District Heat Networks
- What do Modern Methods of Construction mean for Housing Retrofit Jobs and Working Conditions?
- Retrofit for a Healthy Building in a Warming World
- Let Zero: A Retrofit One-Stop Shop for the Private Rental Sector
- Archetype-Based Housing Stock Retrofit for Net-Zero South Yorkshire
- Energy, Cost and Carbon Performance of Retrofit
- Hydrogen and Heat Pumps in the Net-Zero Transition: Life Cycle Evidence for Building Sustainable Global Supply Chains
- South Yorkshire’s Path to Net-Zero: A Case Study on Decarbonising Regional Housing Stock
- Improving Air Quality: Re-Routing Sheffield’s Commuting Cars Could Reduce City-Wide NO2 Concentrations by 21%
- Cleaner Journeys, Smarter Cities: A Multi-Layer Transport Model for Optimised Modal Shifts in South Yorkshire
- South Yorkshire’s Public Transport Network and Distributive justice: Which Communities Face Poor Job Opportunities?
- Modelling the Impact of e-cargo Bikes for Last Mile Deliveries in South Yorkshire
Building Sustainable Food Systems (PDF)
- Urban Agriculture Task Force: Building a Just and Sustainable Food System in Sheffield
- A Just Transition for Small and Medium Enterprises: The Case of Small-Scale Horticulture Growers in South Yorkshire Area
- South Yorkshire Food Network Feasibility Study
- From Data to Impact: Quantifying Environmental Footprint and Transforming Sustainability in South Yorkshire’s Food and Drink Manufacturing Industry
- Soil Carbon Storage Across South Yorkshire: Understanding Soil Carbon Stocks Across Pools in the Context of Agricultural and Conservation Land Management
- Nature Recovery Farming: Supporting Regional Landscape Scale Resilience
Hydrogen and Industrial Decarbonisation (PDF)
- Towards a Resilience Evaluation Framework for Hydrogen Supply Chains
- Towards a Unified Hydrogen Standard: Benchmarking G20 Nations’ Hydrogen Economy Maturity
- Implications of Steel Decarbonisation for Workers and Communities
- HySaaS: Securing Social Licence for Hydrogen Storage and Distribution in South Yorkshire
- Towards Net-Zero Aviation: Life Cycle, Resilience, and Decision-Making Evidence for Waste-Derived Sustainable Aviation Fuels
- Scoping a Hydrogen Network for the South Yorkshire Region using the Network Optimisation Model AENi
- Ensuring a Just Transition for Small and Medium Enterprises
- Youth Visions of a Just Transition: Engaging Young People in South Yorkshire to Imagine Sustainable Futures
Details
The SYSC Consolidated Research Report contains the full breadth of our research portfolio, representing the findings across 34 projects delivered between 2021-2026. It has been divided into six thematic chapters. Each chapter contains an in-depth overview of the challenges the region faces along with the SYSC research response. This is followed by recommendations for regional policy makers. Finally, each section then contains a series of detailed case study reports from our individual research projects.
The structure of this report mirrors the SYSC research themes, which were designed to respond to the challenges posed by South Yorkshire’s highest emitting but most difficult to decarbonise sectors. While it is divided into six separate themes each chapter draws on interdisciplinary research representing the challenges as they are faced at a systemic level.
We hope you enjoy reading report and finding out more about what we have been doing. Do get in touch with us if you have ideas of how we can work together in future.
Published March 2026