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Celebrating the Climate Change Act

Last week we hosted an event to celebrate the Climate Change Act, with Baroness Bryony Worthington...

New energy dataset: CO2 Storage in the UK

The UK Storage Appraisal Project (UKSAP) models are now available in the Energy Data Centre The...

Report examines fairness in UK retail energy market and fuel poverty

A major study was published yesterday on fairness in the retail energy market and fuel poverty.

New data set Available in the Energy Data Centre

The Ecosystem Land Use Modelling and Soil Carbon Flux Trial (ELUM) measured greenhouse gas and soil...

CDT Masterclass outputs on display at Energy Info Day

Outputs from the 2018 CDT Masterclass were displayed at the Horizon 2020 Energy Info Day

Climate Comedy

So as well as being an environmental economist and UKERC researcher, I am also a stand-up...

Blog: Community energy has grown across the UK in recent decades…

While the exact size of the sector is not known, the latest research suggests that there are around...

Blog: Gas consumption during the ‘Beast from the East’

In August 2018, UKERC academics published a briefing paper, consolidating Great Britain’s hourly...

2018 Energy CDT Masterclass

In early July, UKERC helped organise the Energy CDT Masterclass in Sheffield. The three-day event...

Blog: The ‘spillover’ effect of economic policies on energy policy goals

The wider impacts of energy policy on the economy are increasingly being recognised in academic and...

Blog: UK Government must provide road map for gas after Brexit

UK Government must provide road map for gas after Brexit, urges new report

Edinburgh workshop on public ownership of energy

Access the meeting report and all the presentations from this workshop on public ownership of...

National Grid uses UK TIMES in their 2018 Future Energy Scenarios

National Grid published their annual Future Energy Scenarios today, incorporating analysis from UK...

UKERC response to the Road to Zero strategy

In case you missed it the first time round: read the UKERC response to the government’s Road to...

INWED18 – Presenting Ioanna Ketsopoulou

To celebrate International Women in Engineering Day, we invited Ioanna Ketsopoulou, UKERC Research...

INWED18 – Presenting Professor Patricia Thornley

To celebrate International Women in Engineering Day, we invited Professor Patricia Thornley to...

Blog: Clean Air Day – the cost of air pollution from UK cars and vans

On Clean Air Day, Christian Brand explains his latest research into the health costs of air...

SMEs and Energy Workshop

On June 4th over 30 energy and business experts met at Keble College to discuss the role of small...

Blog: Facilitating access to good energy data

The importance of access to high quality data for the UK energy research and development sector...

UKERC participates in Energy Knowledge eXchange™ launch

A new platform has been launched, facilitating free access to valuable data for SMEs and Innovators.

Blog: Kick the car: the lifestyle change for cleaner air

New research highlights how changing the way we travel could have as big an impact on air pollution...

Blog: Heat decarbonisation policy – where to next?

Heat decarbonisation policy must acknowledge vested interests, encourage rapid low carbon heat...

Locally owned renewable energy: Welsh Government call for evidence

Read our response to the Welsh Government call for evidence on locally owned community energy...

Meeting note: Demonstrating and scaling up low carbon energy systems

UKERC hosted a roundtable for 15 academics to discuss potential research priorities for...

Blog: Myth-busting Energy Security

The relationship between decarbonisation and the security of the UK energy system is not as...