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Can Social and Smart Tariffs Improve Energy Affordability and Drive Economic Growth?

This blog explores the key questions, challenges and insights on improving energy affordability and...

6 days ago

New Study on Impact of Fixed-term Research Contracts

C-DICE, the Centre for Postdoctoral Development in Infrastructure, Cities, and Energy is exploring...

6 days ago

UKERC Director Rob Gross Meets Energy Minister Michael Shanks to Discuss Zonal Pricing

On Monday 31 March, Rob Gross took part in a high-level roundtable discussion alongside...

1 week ago

UKERC Researcher Talks About Zonal Pricing on BBC Scotland

UKERC Researcher Callum MacIver talked to BBC Scotland about zonal pricing on Friday 28th March on...

2 weeks ago

Watch the UKERC, IEA and EDRC Webinar: Reducing Energy Demand – A UK Success Story?

In this webinar, lead authors of the International Energy Agency’s Energy Efficiency 2024 report...

2 weeks ago

UKERC Researchers Give Evidence to Select Committee Inquiry on Clean Energy Workforce Planning

Earlier this month, UKERC researchers Dr. Richard Hanna (Imperial College London) and Dr. Christian...

3 weeks ago

Making UKERC’s Research Data Available: How Did We Do?

Research data is an important outcome of research. Making it accessible to everyone in a way that...

05 Mar 2025

UKERC research informs Climate Change Committee’s advice on the Seventh Carbon Budget

UKERC research on the availability of future electricity network infrastructure has been cited in...

26 Feb 2025

UKERC’s Public Engagement Observatory is looking for Norfolk residents to take part in climate engagement survey.

The survey is on public engagement with energy, climate change and net zero in the UK.

25 Feb 2025

UKERC Responds to Energy Security and Net Zero Committee call for evidence on ‘Unlocking community energy at scale’

UKERC welcomes this inquiry and the UK government’s ambition to achieve clean power by 2030,...

12 Feb 2025

Centre for Net Zero and Energy Systems Catapult release paper on net zero building metrics

The Centre for Net Zero and Energy Systems Catapult have released their latest paper calling for...

07 Feb 2025

UKERC academic recognised by DESNZ for research contribution to Net Zero Industrial Pathways

The Department of Energy Security and Net Zero provided a letter of recognition for the...

04 Feb 2025

Take Part: Women in Academia Survey

Despite efforts to promote gender equality, significant barriers still hinder the progression and...

28 Jan 2025

Watch the launch of the Review of Energy Policy 2024

In the Review of Energy Policy 2024, we set out the key energy priorities for the new Labour...

27 Jan 2025

Future of Russian gas looking bleak as Ukraine turns off taps and Europe eyes ending all imports

This article raises two crucial questions about the future role of Russian gas on global markets.

15 Jan 2025

UKERC is hiring!

We are hiring an Engagement and Events Manager and Executive and Operations Administrator for the...

13 Jan 2025

Accelerating transitions? Planning for decarbonisation in local and regional energy systems

This blog summarises a synthesis paper based on research completed in the UKERC Local and Regional...

08 Jan 2025

A Reflection on the RD20 Conference 2024

In this blog, Dr Sibimol Luke, Research Fellow at UCL and UK-HyRES Hub, describes the events and...

17 Dec 2024

Government sets out plan for new era of clean electricity

Clean power will unlock £40 billion of investment a year and reindustrialise Britain with...

13 Dec 2024

Read the Review of Energy Policy 2024

In our Review of Energy Policy 2024, we set out the key energy priorities for the new Labour...

12 Dec 2024

Podcast

Talking Energy: The UKERC Podcast – Examining the Clean Power Mission with Mike Thompson

Following the publication of NESO’s advice to Government on achieving Clean Power by 2030, Rob...

11 Dec 2024

UK energy governance is changing fast, here’s what’s needed to get it right

In this blog, Jess Britton and Richard Lowes discuss Ofgem's Regional Energy Strategic Plan policy...

28 Nov 2024

Talking Energy: The UKERC Podcast – The Crunchy Decade for Energy Policy with Dhara Vyas

Check out the latest episode of the UK Energy Research Centre podcast with the new Energy UK CEO...

26 Nov 2024

Air Pollution, Child Health, and Cognitive Development

This blog discusses a recent study revealing that indoor air pollution harms Nigerian children's...

21 Nov 2024

Call for climate horizon 2040 conference session proposals

ClimateXChange, Scotland’s centre of expertise on climate change, is calling for session...

12 Nov 2024

UKERC Annual Assembly 2024 Highlights

In September UKERC held its Annual Assembly in Warwick. A gathering of UKERC researchers and...

07 Nov 2024

Survey: Stakeholders perceptions of UKRI

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is committed to fostering a thriving research and innovation...

05 Nov 2024

Painted with One Brush: Why We Need Diverse Approaches to Retrofit in the Private Rented Sector

With rising energy costs, investing in energy retrofitting is increasingly important. In rental...

31 Oct 2024

Understanding Scotland’s energy transition

At this joint UKERC-CXC event in Edinburgh on 3 October 2024, around 100 stakeholders from across...

29 Oct 2024

UKERC Webinar: Rethinking Energy Geopolitics

‘Energy geopolitics’ has a beleaguered history. Emerging in the wake of the 1970s oil crises as...

28 Oct 2024

Ending century-long speculation about the impact of heat pumps on demand for electricity

There is limited empirical evidence on the impact of heat pumps on demand and price optimisation.

24 Oct 2024

The gas crisis is not over yet

Global gas prices remain volatile and subject to disruptions. The UK, heavily reliant on gas for...

23 Oct 2024

Achieving deep transport energy demand reductions in the United Kingdom

This study presents policy-relevant insights into the potential and feasibility for transport...

21 Oct 2024

Renewed funding for the UK Energy Research Centre will provide an independent voice and innovative thinking to help deliver the energy transition

UKERC has been awarded £11 million for the next four years from the Engineering and Physical...

14 Oct 2024

UKERC Director Robert Gross to join the 2030 Clean Power Mission as a Commissioner

We are delighted to announce that UKERC Director Robert Gross will be joining Chris Stark as one of...

10 Oct 2024

Call for Papers: Young Energy Researchers 2025

The World Sustainable Energy Days (WSED) are a leading annual conference on the energy transition...

01 Oct 2024

UK Public is Becoming More ‘Carbon Capable’ – Here’s What That Means

A recent study has found that while the UK public's awareness and action on climate change have...

01 Oct 2024

UKERC Participation in RD20 Summer School 2024

In July 2024, four UKERC delegates attended the RD20 Summer School in Jakarta, Indonesia, a global...

26 Sep 2024

Who is in fuel poverty? The government has no idea as it moves to cut winter fuel payments

The government's recent changes to the winter fuel allowance have sparked controversy, as they...

19 Sep 2024

New UCL centre to address electricity market design for net zero

A new UCL research centre, that brings academics together with industry and government to inform...

13 Sep 2024

Call for Papers/Contributions – Workshop: Elections and Climate Change

The Political Studies Association Environment Group are planning a workshop on Elections and...

10 Sep 2024

What’s next for EDI in Energy: panel discussion recording

In this video from UKERC's EDI event in March, experts in broadening inclusion in STEM discuss the...

29 Aug 2024

The IPCC Seeks Experts for Urban Climate Report

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is seeking leading experts to contribute to...

22 Aug 2024

RD20 Blog: A Journey in Decarbonisation and the Just Energy Transition

In the final blog from our series on the recent RD20 Summer School, one of our early career...

22 Aug 2024

New solar farms can benefit nature – here’s how

Recent research has shown that solar farms can be biodiversity havens. They boost pollinators,...

15 Aug 2024

RD20 Summer School: The “Diversity of Knowledge on Decarbonisation in Just Energy Transition Mechanism”

By Abayomi Adeniyi The RD20 Summer School in South Tangerang, Indonesia, held between the 7-13 July...

06 Aug 2024

Enhancing Collaboration: Rob Gross visits the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Author: Rob Gross I recently had the pleasure of visiting colleagues at the National Renewable...

05 Aug 2024

BIEE and UKERC Webinar: Post-election panel discussion on energy policy

We recently hosted a joint webinar with BIEE discussing the recent UK election's impact on energy...

01 Aug 2024

CEES launches the Energy Solidarity Toolkit

The newly launched Community Energy for Energy Solidarity Energy Solidarity Toolkit provides...

01 Aug 2024

The RD20 Summer School Poster Session: A Personal Journey

In this blog, early career researcher Weize Wu details his experience with the innovative poster...

25 Jul 2024

Survey: What Affects Your Engagement with the UK Government

The Academic Engagement team is seeking your input on scientist engagement with the UK government.

23 Jul 2024

Help Thrive to enhance research environments

The Thrive project aims to improve research environments by creating a new model for team-based...

23 Jul 2024

Four crucial climate targets the new UK government should adopt immediately

The UK lacks a credible pathway to meet its climate targets, but a report from the Climate Evidence...

18 Jul 2024

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion take Centre Stage at UKERC-Energy Institute Event

This blog looks back at our EDI event this spring, when 70 people from across the energy sector...

16 Jul 2024

Rethinking Energy Geopolitics

This extended blog argues that existing analyses of energy geopolitics are limited and proposes a...

11 Jul 2024

Ed Miliband appoints UKERC Advisory Board member Chris Stark as Head of Mission Control for Clean Power by 2030

Congratulations to Chris Stark on his appointment to head up a new Mission Control tasked with...

10 Jul 2024

OECD Internship Programme

The OECD is offering exciting internship opportunities starting this September.

09 Jul 2024

Dissolving Consensus: UKERC Director Rob Gross’s insights on energy policy priorities in today’s election

Today, the UK goes to the polls. Environment and climate change rank fifth among voter concerns.

04 Jul 2024

Confronting ‘mobesity’ is vital for the global electrification of transport

The proliferation of large electric vehicles risks undermining the environmental and economic...

04 Jul 2024

Video: Where Next for SMEs and Net Zero?

Watch the video of our recent webinar, based on the UKERC research report Where next for SMEs and...

27 Jun 2024

Nominate a Project for the Holyrood Climate Action Awards

UKERC is working alongside Holyrood Events to encourage nominations for the Technology and...

25 Jun 2024

Call for Submissions: 2024 USAEE Young Professional Best Paper Award Competition

The USAEE has announced the 2024 Young Professional Best Paper Award Competition. This prestigious...

20 Jun 2024

Videos: ‘UKERC at 20’ Celebration Event

In April we celebrated 20 years of UKERC. Watch presentations from the event which covered topics...

20 Jun 2024

Energy and Well-being Symposium in Nigeria highlights need for cleaner cooking fuels to reduce indoor air pollution

The recent Energy and Well-being Symposium in Nigeria – part of UKERC’s ‘Energy, Health and...

13 Jun 2024

Parliamentary Reception: Energy Transition Risks and Opportunities

This blog provides an overview of the parliamentary reception we hosted as part of our ‘UKERC at...

05 Jun 2024

Locational Signals for Electricity System Flexibility Alongside a National Wholesale Market

As the dust settles on the second REMA consultation, this blog by Simon Gill, Callum MacIver and...

05 Jun 2024

Clean Heat without the Hot Air: British and Dutch lessons and challenges

This blog reflects on the evolving approach to heat decarbonisation in Britain and changes needed...

30 May 2024

Happy 20th birthday to UKERC – and a call to action to the energy research community

UKERC recently celebrated its 20th anniversary with a focus on the future of energy research. The...

16 May 2024

Energy Modelling for All Project Presentation at Diversifying the Energy Sector Event

In this blog, the Energy Modelling for All (EM4A) team describe insights gathered at the recent...

16 May 2024

UKERC at 20

UKERC celebrated its 20th anniversary with a conference reflecting on its achievements and planning...

09 May 2024

Reducing energy demand and improving efficiency will help prevent the next gas crisis

This blog argues that focusing on increasing gas supply won't solve the energy crisis. Instead, the...

09 May 2024

Four myths about vertical farming debunked by an expert

Vertical farming is growing in popularity. Challenges to its growth include high costs and energy...

02 May 2024

New Research on Neurodiversity in the Energy Sector: Making Sure all EDI Initiatives Succeed

In this blog, Dr Vanda Papafilippou sets out her latest research project on neurodiversity in the...

25 Apr 2024

Jim Skea on UKERC’s 20th Anniversary

Jim Skea chair of the IPCC, gave the opening message at UKERC’s 20th anniversary in London.

23 Apr 2024

New EDI Toolkit for Housing Providers

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has launched a new toolkit to support...

18 Apr 2024

Smart Energy Research Lab Stats Report 2 Published

A new report from the UKRI/EPSRC funded Smart Energy Research Lab (SERL) based at University...

18 Apr 2024

The Demand Side of Energy Security

This blog highlights a demand-side approach to energy security, emphasising how reducing fossil...

11 Apr 2024

UKERC workshop for Early Career Researchers: getting started with grant applications

In this blog, Helen Poulter describes how a free UKERC grant-writing workshop helped her and other...

09 Apr 2024

Size of the Prize: How Flexible Heat and Transport Demand can be a Foundation of the Future Energy System

The UK is focusing on managing energy demand, including innovative approaches like the Demand...

27 Mar 2024

CAST Data Portal: Public Views on Climate, Reveals That Public Concern About Climate Change is Still High

New data from the re-launch of the CAST Data Portal: Public views on climate, drawn from four years...

27 Mar 2024

The Early Career Researcher Net Zero Conference

This blog provides an overview of the 2024 Early Career Researcher conference held in Birmingham.

20 Mar 2024

Energy SHINES Net Zero Work Placement Reports

Energy SHINES was a UKERC project set up to facilitate partnerships between women ECRs from energy...

19 Mar 2024

You Know the NHS. What About the PHS?

The Transition through Inclusion and Diversity for Equity Community (TIDE Community) champions...

14 Mar 2024

Video: Rob Gross, Giving Oral Evidence to the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee on the UK’s Future Energy Technology Mix

UKERC Director Rob Gross gave evidence last week on the UK’s future energy technology mix to The...

13 Mar 2024

Podcast

Podcast: Shell’s Energy Scenarios

In this new episode of our "Talking Energy" podcast, UKERC Director Rob Gross talks with Shell's...

07 Mar 2024

Offshore Wind Farms: Policymakers are More Influenced by Reports that Accentuate Negative Impacts

The impact of offshore wind turbines on the sea are often debated. This blog explains how,...

29 Feb 2024

Offshore Oil and Gas Extraction: Reform the Petroleum Act

This article, originally published by The Academy of Social Sciences, argues that the UK's offshore...

22 Feb 2024

US ‘Pause’ on Future Liquefied Gas Exports Throws Doubt on Fossil Fuel’s Place in Energy Transition

This blog highlights how President Biden's temporary review of the legitimacy of new liquefied...

19 Feb 2024

Where next for transport and carbon budgets?

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) is preparing the 7th carbon budget for 2037-2042, and is facing...

15 Feb 2024

Improving Data Sharing in Energy Consortia

This blog outlines some of the background and main takeaway points from the CREDS/UKERC Data...

08 Feb 2024

Diversifying the Energy Sector: EDI initiatives that succeed

Join the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) and the Energy Institute (EI) for this free conference...

07 Feb 2024

Video: Review of Energy Policy 2023

In December we launched our flagship Review of Energy Policy 2023. The event chaired by Joanne...

01 Feb 2024

How were past heating transitions experienced and what can they tell us about making low carbon heating a success?

The way we heat our homes needs to change fast, if we are to stand any chance of achieving net...

01 Feb 2024

A Net-Zero World Will be More Peaceful, it’s Assumed – But First we Have to Get There

The International Energy Agency has recently highlighted the challenges of "energy security,...

25 Jan 2024

Webinar: Mapping the Landscape of Public Attitudes Towards Low-Carbon Heating Technologies

In this UKERC webinar, we presented and debated evidence from a new nationally representative...

25 Jan 2024

Opportunity to contribute to DESNZ research on energy efficiency in industry

Ricardo, an environmental and engineering consultancy, is helping the Department of Energy Security...

18 Jan 2024

The Meat and Dairy Industry is not ‘Climate Neutral’, Despite Some Eye-Catching Claims

Recent studies claim meat & dairy can be 'climate neutral' with minimal methane reduction. In this...

18 Jan 2024

The Case for the Regional Energy Strategic Planners

The UK targets decarbonising its power sector by 2035, dealing with rising electricity demand from...

11 Jan 2024

EXPO-ENGAGE Network Building: Reflecting on Stakeholder Workshops

In this blog from the EXPO-ENGAGE project, Rachel Hale describes two stakeholder workshops designed...

21 Dec 2023