Research Activities

Our world class consortium of 15 leading universities brings together expertise in social science, engineering, environmental science and economics to tackle the real world problems of the energy transition.

Explore the full range of our research below.

Current research

Below you can access links to our current research programme.

Gas Price Volatility: Distributional Impacts and Mitigations→

The Marine Energy, Biodiversity and Food Nexus (EcoNex)→

SME Governance for Net Zero→

Delivering a Sustainable and Equitable Heat Transition→

WinWindow: Tracking the Co-Benefits of a Green Recovery→

Wind Investment Network for Effective Market Design→

Market and Policy Design for Ambitious Wind Generation→

Going Dutch→

Net zero neighbourhoods→

Sustainable food cold-chains→

Finance and procurement for net zero→

Energy and Networks→

Heat Pump Cost Reductions→

Green jobs→

Representing disruption and continuity in energy models→

Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, and direct air carbon capture and storage→

Modelling energy demand in energy system models→

Consumer bills→

The costs and impacts of intermittency→

Best practice in heat decarbonisation policy→

Energy Pathways and Valuing Natural Capital→

Innovation timelines from invention to maturity→

Consumer attitudes to changes in electricity supply voltage→

Energy Efficiency Evaluation→

Low carbon jobs→

Electricity cost methodologies→

Materials availability for low carbon technologies→

Regional and global estimates of unconventional gas resources→

Energy from biomass: the size of the global resource→

The great expectations report→

Global oil depletion→

The transport report→

The rebound effect report→

Investment in electricity generation report→

The 2006 intermittency report→

Heat supply in local systems→

Heat as a source of flexibility→

Decarbonisation of heat→

International supply chains for vehicles and batteries→

Interactions between sectors in the delivery of low carbon aviation and shipping→

Energy pathways for emerging mobility systems→

Ecosystem service outcomes of transport electrification→

Sustainable Transport and Planning Electric (STAPLE)→

Preparing the power network for electric vehicles→

Public attitudes and decarbonised heat→

Governance of continuity and change→

Infrastructure investment→

Resilience of the future energy system→

Incumbents and new entrants→

Tools to support decision making→

National scale spatial modelling→

Data and output resolution when modelling at spatial scale→

The impact of renewables on ecosystem services and natural capital→

Modelling synergies and tensions between transitions→

Economic and industrial transitions→

Regulatory governance and decentralisation→

Devolution and local energy system development→

Brexit and zero carbon energy policy→

Geopolitical economy of energy system transformation→

Energy system resource use and impacts on ecosystems→

Project 2: Knowledge Exchange→

Project 5: Identifying Potential Locations for Energy Infrastructure→

Project 6: Impacts Associated with Large Scale Adoption of Bioenergy CCS (BECCS)→

Project 15: Comparing Assessment Methods→

Project 9: Terrestrial Biodiversity Impact Metrics and Constraints→

Project 1: Fundamentals→

Project 10: Implications of Mixed Marine Energy Sources for Cultural Ecosystem Benefits→

Project 13: Assessing Energy Pathway Impacts in the UK – Combining the Microeconomic and Macroeconomic Assessment Models→

Project 12: Assessing Energy Pathway Impacts in the UK – Macroeconomic Assessment through Computable General Equilibrium Modelling→

Project 4: Characterising Components of Energy Pathways→

Project 7: Impacts of Changes in Energy Consumption→

Project 8: Visual Impact of Energy Production Chains→

Project 3: Capacity Building→

Project 11: Assessing Energy Pathway Impacts in the UK – Microeconomic Assessment Through Spatially Disaggregated Integrated Assessment Modelling→

Project 14: Assessing Energy Pathway Impacts Outside the UK→

Infrastructure Transformation: The First 10 Years of Net Zero→

Energy SHINES: Energy Social sciences and Humanities Insights for Non-Energy Sectors→

The Social Relations of Applying for Energy Grants→

Intersectionality in the careers of ethnic minority energy professionals→

Energy Modelling for All→

EDI-GEN: Equality, diversity and inclusion in energy systems: community and gender perspectives→

EXPO-ENGAGE: facilitating participation in air quality citizen science→

Energy, Health and Happiness→

Completed research

Here you can access details of our activities dating from 2014 to 2019. To find out about research prior to 2014, please visit the UK Web Archive which facilitates access to archived versions of our website dating back to 2008.