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November 2011:
UKERC’s Technology and Policy Assessment theme will present its latest research report Energy from biomass: the size of the global resource at a launch event in London on Wednesday 23 November 2011. find out more.
 

UKERC Research

We carry out world-class research into sustainable future energy systems.  This research is interdisciplinary and takes a whole systems approach to inform UK policy development and UK research strategy.

Download our Research Outline.  This is an outline of UKERC research activity for 2009-2014.

 

Summaries of the research projects being undertaken in our five research themes are available here:


Energy Supply
Energy Demand

Energy Systems

Energy and Environment

TPA

Visit our Research Report page to download all peer-reviewed reports. Reports are also available to download from our Publications Catalogue, which also contains working papers, book chapters and articles.

 

For more details of research in our five themes, please visit our theme webpages:


The research programme is framed by the challenges of a changing energy agenda driven by environmental and security concerns:

  • Driving systemic change in the energy sector
  • Managing environmental impacts
  • Enhancing energy security and resilience

These challenges are being addressed by drawing on competences within and across the five research themes above.

Research Fund

60% of the Research Programme budget supports UKERC’s core research programme, The remainder is targeted at a competitively-bid Research Fund.

The Research Fund is intended to augment the core programme while allowing us to respond to emerging developments in research or policy. More
 

Research Co-ordination

The research co-ordination team are: Professor Jim Skea (Research Director), Dr Mark Winskel (Research Co-ordinator), and Dr Xinxin Wang (Research Co-ordination Associate).

The team has responsibility for:

  • ensuring UKERC’s research projects contribute to the overall research strategy
  • encouraging and supporting cross-Centre research projects
  • supporting the Research Committee in taking forward the Research Fund
  • developing a cross-Centre publications strategy
  

UKERC Phase I 2004-2009

ImageUKERC was established in 2004 with five years' funding. During this phase of activity, the Centre organised its research into the following themes:

The most ambitious cross-theme project was UKERC Energy 2050, launched in April 2009.

The report addressed two of the Government's toughest energy policy goals – delivering reliable energy to consumers while meeting its legal commitment to reduce CO2 emissions by 80% by 2050. An Earthscan book has now been published, based on the work of the Energy 2050 project.


If you have any questions on our research activity, call +44 (0) 20 7594 1574 or email xinxin.wang@ukerc.ac.uk

 

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