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Decentralisation Issues: Decentralised Energy Potential

Dr. Douglas Parr, Greenpeace UK Transmission and distribution are a significant part of UK electricity costs and aging infrastructure requires investment. Dece...

Decentralisation Issues: The Role of Smart Meters

Judith Ward, Warwick Business School  

Decentralisation Issues: New deployment models for micro regeneration

Raphael Sauter, University of Sussex Electricity generation by individual households (known as micro-generation) is attracting increasing interest in the UK an...

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...

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 ...

Security Issues: EU Standards for energy security of supply

Martin Scheepers, ECN, The Netherlands In a review process to assess the energy security of supply (SoS) for the EU and individual Member States, standards ca...

Security Issues: Strategic storage and security of gas supply in the UK

David Cox and Andrew Nind, Poyry Energy Consulting The delivery of significant quantities of reliable, new gas supplies is required to meet future demand for g...

Demand Policies: Incorporating Behavioural Responses within a Technology Optimization Energy Model

Ramachandran Kannan and Neil Strachan, Policy Studies Institute This paper details modelling efforts within the UK Energy Research Centre’s Energy System Mod...

Demand Policies: Can Energy Services companies deliver low carbon new build homes?

Sharad Saxena, Oxford University Centre for the Environment The UK has set for itself an ambitious target of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 60% by 2050. ...

Demand Policies: Energy Consumption Takes Time

John Dimitropoulos, University of Sussex Although time has been recognised as an important factor determining patterns of consumption, its importance for energ...

Energy Policies in a Global Context

Paul Chambers, Defra Forecast global carbon reductions from 2002 to 2030 are reviewed, indicating that energy efficiency is expected to account for over 50% of...

Japanese Energy Policy and Asian Energy Challenges

Tatsuo Masuda, Tokyo Institute of Technology Sets out the context for the development of Japan’s energy policy from 1945 to present, covering six phases, fro...
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