This Meeting Report presents the key outputs from the workshop on ‘Place and Energy: Does scale matter?’ which took place in August 2006 at Imperial College, London, and was hosted and sponsored by the UKERC Meeting Place. The aim of the workshop was to identify the research and policy issues in developing a multi-level energy policy that takes ‘place’ and the relationships between ‘scales’ seriously, which would be of value to both policy and practice.
The workshop brought together a diverse group of researchers, policy officials and practitioners to discuss the current state of understanding of the relationship between ‘place’ and energy, and the implications for future research agendas. All the participants were actively involved with energy issues across public, private and NGO sectors – and operated at national government, regional, city-regional and local scales (see Appendix A for a list of participants and their affiliations).