Rob Gross
UKERC Director, UKERC Researcher
Dr Robert Gross is Senior Lecturer in Energy Policy at Imperial College London and the Director of Imperial's Centre for Energy Policy and Technology, ICEPT. He convenes Imperial's MSc in Environmental Technology, Energy Policy option.
Robert has contributed to policy development in the UK for many years, for example co-authoring the 2002 Energy Review and 2004 Renewables Innovation Review. In 2008 he acted as Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords Committee on the European Union enquiry into the feasibility of the 2020 targets for renewable energy. He has published widely on energy policy, with a focus on support for innovation, renewable energy and energy system change.
Robert has a PhD in Energy and Environment Policy and Technology and an MSc in Environmental Technology, both from Imperial College.
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Related Publications (31)
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Building our Industrial Strategy - Response to the Green Paper from the UK Energy Research Centre
Consultation Response by Paul Ekins, Rob Gross, Keith Bell, Jim Watson, Lindsay Wright, John Barrett, Nick Eyre 19 Apr 2017
The development of a comprehensive industrial strategy for the UK is long overdue. The strategy is an opportunity to bring much needed coherence to economic and industrial policy, and to ensure that it works in tandem with the government’s other policies and plans. It is particularly important that the strategy underpins the UK’s transition towards a cleaner, low carbon economy.
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The costs and impacts of intermittency – 2016 update
Research Report by Phil Heptonstall, Rob Gross 21 Feb 2017
A systematic review of the evidence on the costs and impacts of intermittent electricity generation technologies
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UKERC Energy Policy Review
Policy Briefing by Paul Ekins, Rob Gross, Jillian Anable, Jan Webb, Jason Chilvers, Mike Bradshaw, Keith Bell, Jim Watson, Lindsay Wright, Sarah Darby, Christian Brand, Nick Pidgeon, Nick Eyre 19 Nov 2016
A review of UK energy policy
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Best practice in heat decarbonisation policy
Scoping Note by Rob Gross, Richard Hanna, Jamie Speirs, Bryony Parrish 16 May 2016
What policies and other factors have driven change/transformation in heat delivery technologies, fuels and infrastructure? The Technology and Policy Assessment (TPA) Theme of UKERC have published a scoping note outlining their ongoing investigation into this topic.
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Working paper: How consistent and comparable are ecosystem services and energy system scenarios?
Working Paper by Phil Heptonstall, Nicola Beaumont, Rob Gross, Rob Holland, Mel Austen, Ioanna Ketsopoulou, Jim Watson, Gail Taylor, Tara Hooper 01 Apr 2016
To what extent are energy and ecosystem scenarios consistent and comparable? A new working paper from the TPA Theme of UKERC suggests that energy and ecosystem service scenarios are broadly consistent, with climate change representing a unifying narrative.
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News (5)
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Building our Industrial Strategy - Response to the Green Paper from the UK Energy Research Centre
Network News by Paul Ekins, Rob Gross, Keith Bell, Jim Watson, Lindsay Wright, John Barrett, Nick Eyre 19 Apr 2017
UKERC's response to the Government's green paper on industrial strategy
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Why we can't afford to move post-truth in energy policy
The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee, chaired by Labour Peer Lord Hollick, published a report last week on 'reforming the energy market'. UKERC Co-Director Rob Gross looks at the detail and wonders if facts are being sacrificed for the sake of a good story.
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Don’t sacrifice Britain’s surprising progress in power sector decarbonisation
Blog by Rob Gross, Iain Staffell 23 Nov 2016
With this week marking the Chancellor's Autumn Statement, Rob Gross and Iain Staffell, Imperial College, argue that the UK needs to press on with efforts to decarbonise the power sector.
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Is Brexit really Brexit at all? And what will it mean for us?
Dr Robert Gross, UKERC Co-Director, asks what the referendum result means for energy and climate change policy and the UK economy as a whole, and what the options are for the Government, in a blog first published by the Energy Futures lab.
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UKERC Blog: Restoring investor confidence for low carbon power
Blog by Rob Gross, Jim Watson 21 Oct 2015
The UK Government has spoken of the need to ‘reset’ energy policy to reduce costs. Rob Gross, UKERC Co-Director, and Jim Watson, UKERC Director, argue that ministers should skip the reset and explain instead how they will use existing policy levers to speed decarbonisation, reassure investors, and reduce costs.
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