Exeter Energy Policy Group blog
Blogs from the University of Exeter Energy Policy Group
International Women’s Day is an important moment to highlight our research on gender balance in the UK energy research portfolio, funded by the UK Energy Research Centre Whole Systems Networking Fund (UKERC WSNF). The project aims...
By Rachel Bray, Energy Policy Group, 10th May 2018* The need to decarbonise the GB electricity system, alongside the falling costs of renewable technologies and developments in IT capabilities, provides us with an opportunity...
By Bridget Woodman, Energy Policy Group, 11th Sept 2017 The price of offshore wind continues to fall dramatically. The UK government’s latest round of contracts for renewable generation have just been announced, and they show...
By Iain Souter, Energy Policy Group, 3-Aug-2017 I was fortunate enough to participate recently in a three day workshop on the ‘Energy-Water-Climate Change Nexus in a Transitional Economy: Sustainability and Resilience’, held in Nanjing, China...
By Richard Lowes, Energy Policy Group If the UK’s Climate Change Act target of an 80% reduction on 1990 emissions levels by 2050 is to be met, it’s generally believed that space and hot...
Guest Blog from: Stephen Hall, Research Fellow in energy economics and policy, University of Leeds Headlines claiming that the Labour manifesto means a re-nationalisation of the energy sector are wrong. So what does it...
By Richard Lowes, Energy Policy Group When one thinks about the rules and regulations around the UK’s energy networks (which luckily for us at the EPG we often do) we tend to consider price...
Brexit and energy: what future for UK-EU energy cooperation? Written by: Antony Froggatt and Georgina Wright from Chatham House and Matthew Lockwood from the Energy Policy Group at the University of Exeter. The UK’s...
