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Resources / Conference Presentations
25.09.07
Security of Supply for the UK
Professor Jonathan Stern, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies Although the 2007 EWP seeks to define energy security, its approach is insufficient. In particul...
25.09.07
Reducing Energy Use in UK Transport
Professor David Banister, Transport Studies Unit, Oxford University The UK transport sector is responsible for over a quarter of UK energy use and GHG emission...
25.09.07
Renewable Energy in the 2007 Energy White Paper
Professor Catherine Mitchell, University of Exeter Provides an overview of progress on renewables within the UK, the current support mechanisms for them, new ...
25.09.07
Carbon Capture and Storage
Dr Jon Gibbins, Imperial College Tracks the development of CCS thinking within Government since the 2003 EWP, setting out the measures that are proposed to s...
25.09.07
Electricity Generation: Nuclear Power
Professor Gordon Mackerron, SPRU, University of Sussex Nuclear investment within the UK is becoming credible again because: the political fall-out from Cherno...
23.05.07
Energy White Paper 2007
“Meeting the Energy Challenge”, the White Paper on Energy, was published on May 23, 2007 following several years of intense energy policy review and debate....
20.09.06
Security Issues: Measuring Supply Security in Electricity Markets
Jostein Kristensen, Oxera Plant margins are often used as high-level indicators of the level of generation supply security. However, in dynamic markets, where ...
20.09.06
Climbing the energy ladder: the role of economic growth in determining energy demand
The ‘energy ladder’ concept captures the idea that there is a systematic, nonlinear relationship between energy use and economic activity, illustrated in Fi...
20.09.06
Decentralisation Issues: The Economic Value and Carbon Dioxide Emission Implications of Community Heating Network versus Micro Combined Heat and Power Energy Provision in the UK
Adam Hawkes and Matthew Leach, Imperial College Community heating (CH) provides a potentially economic and efficient means of supplying heat to a number of bui...
20.09.06
Transport: Contracting UK carbon emissions: implications for UK aviation
Alice Bows, University of Manchester Stabilising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at or below 550ppmv is widely believed to be necessary to avoid ‘d...
20.09.06
Transport: Effect of a Pay-As-You-Drive charge on the adoption of lower carbon vehicles
Ben Lane, EcoLane and James Warren, OU It is now becoming clear that the ACEA voluntary agreement for reducing CO2 emissions from new cars to 140g/km by 2008 ...
20.09.06