Exeter Energy Policy Group blog
Blogs from the University of Exeter Energy Policy Group
By Bridget Woodman, Energy Policy Group, 8th of April, 2022. The end of term means that it’s marking time at universities. At Exeter we have very strict rules about giving feedback within a three...
By Mehri Khosravi and Richard Lowes, Energy Policy Group, 25th March 2022. The context The cooling of buildings accounts for about 20% of the total current electricity use worldwide, however, it is estimated that...
By Calum Harvey-Scholes, Energy Policy Group, 16th of November 2021 It is widely accepted that delivering a zero carbon heat system will need to be both decentralised and designed for the locality, implying an...
By Calum Harvey-Scholes, Energy Policy Group, 10th of August 2021 I set out in the first blog in this series how different UK local governments are approving and refusing applications for expansion, occasionally with...
By Calum Harvey-Scholes, Energy Policy Group, 4th of August 2021. This second in the “Air Traffic Controls” blog series continues from the first, using policy analysis examine the contradiction between climate policy and the...
By Calum Harvey-Scholes, Energy Policy Group, 30th of July 2021 This blog series describes the mismatch between the climate ambition of the UK national and local governments on the one hand, and plans to...
A guest blog* by Laura Sandy, CBE, Challenging Ideas. We have exciting challenging and essential tasks as a sector in relation to our customers – whether domestic or business. The big opportunity is the...
By Richard Lowes and Oscar Fitch-Roy, University of Exeter Energy Policy Group, 27th of January 2021 Dramatic falls in the cost of wind energy make it a strategically important form of energy for the UK...
