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WSNF Update

In this article, Amber Sawyer outlines the upcoming plans for the Whole Systems Networking Fund.

The oil industry is the enabler and not the pariah of energy transition and achieving net zero

In this blog, Astley Hastings highlights the importance of greenhouse gas removal technologies for...

POWERful Women on the look-out for mid-career women in energy volunteers

Are you a mid-career professional woman working for a UK-based energy company or aspiring towards...

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities

In this blog originally posted in The Conversation, Christian Brand discusses how active travel can...

Net zero and net gain: The environmental challenges of upscaling marine renewables

The UK has set an ambitious target of 40W offshore wind by 2030, providing more than enough...

Video: The future of energy retail

Last Thursday Laura Sandys of Challenging Ideas joined us for The Future of Energy Retail, the...

HM Government: Trusted Research Campaign

Trusted Research has been created in partnership with academic and industry specialists to help...

The UK Energy Storage Observatory: sharing data for energy storage research

Sharing knowledge in energy storage research can help address challenges to deploying technologies...

Energy efficiency in buildings – from commercial to residential

In this blog, originally for Trilateral Research, Tobi Elusakin explores the recent shift in energy...

Climate Compatible Growth evidence for COP26 – call for papers

Climate Compatible Growth has an open call for papers on eight priority topics, to assist the UK...

UK offshore oil and gas: continuity or transition in a ‘net-zero basin’?

What is the future for the exploration and production of UK oil and gas in the context of net zero?

The future of serving customers

What is the future for the new energy customer and retailer? Laura Sandys draws on the recent...

The Bartlett launches Together for climate action

This week the Bartlett at UCL launched their ‘Together for climate action campaign’. Leading up...

Fracking may have impacted public trust in new technologies

In a new paper in Risk Analysis, Emily Cox argues that the public controversy over fracking may...

Flexible Fund: Call 2

The second call for our Flexible Fund is open, focusing on research around policies that form part...

COP26: The stepping stones to success for Government and Business?

What is required of government and business to make COP26 a success?

New UKERC webinar series

We are delighted to announce that we have a new series of webinars in development that aim to...

Miscanthus study video

In this blog, Anita Shepard describes why miscanthus bioenergy production need scaling up, what can...

UKERC response to the Industrial Strategy

Yesterday the UK Government’s Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy was published. Read a brief...

The energy system transition: what are the research priorities?

A primary foundation of any programme to transform the UK energy system is to identify what we...

A new direction for public engagement with energy and climate change

UKERC Co-Director Jason Chilvers and colleagues go behind the scenes of their new Nature Energy...

Ending reliance on the market alone to deliver for the power sector

As with health and finance, the risk of systemic failure in the energy sector is something that...

Local energy resilience in the face of a changing climate

In this article Graeme Hawker and Faye Wade consider how local authorities can work to help build...

Video: Green jobs

In last month's Budget (March 3rd), the Chancellor redoubled the UK government's commitment to...

Still waiting on ‘Gas by Design’

Mike Bradshaw discusses the 'gas by design' approach to decarbonising the energy system. He...