Read the latest reports from the Energy Systems Catapult, Citizens Advice, UKERC, Vivid Economics Energy UK on decarbonisation of heat, community energy, vulnerable customers and innovation required to meet Net Zero.
Adrian Gault Chief Assurance Officer the CCC, Alex Kazaglis Principal Vivid Economics, Steve Jennings Partner PWC, Charles Hendry Hon Professor Edinburgh Business School, Lawrence Slade CEO Energy UK and Joe Dutton Analyst E3G share their thoughts on what Net Zero means for the UK.
The Energy Systems Catapult has published a new report ‘What does a Net-Zero emissions future look like in 2050 for the average UK household? Analysis by Energy Systems Catapult for the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) found meeting a net zero future would require more lifestyle changes for the average UK household in transport, diet and air travel – compared to current (80% reduction on 1990 levels) ambitions.
The Committee on Climate Change has published it advice on when and how the UK could achieve net zero emissions, recommending that the the country set an ambitious new target to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050.
We are delighted to announce that our sixth ‘Future of Energy’ lecture will be given by Sinead Lynch,UK Country Chair at Shell. Sinead joined Shell in the role of UK Country Chair in September 2016. She is Chair of the Board of the Shell UK Pension Trust, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Shell Foundation and a Trustee of the Shell Centenary Scholarship Fund. Prior to her appointment to Shell, Sinead worked at BG Group where she was responsible for the leadership and integration of Environment & Climate Change, Social Performance & Human Rights, Government & Policy Affairs and Communications disciplines among others.
The BIEE’s 2019 energy seminars (February, April, June and November) will focus on a current controversial topic related to energy and climate change. The seminars will feature two speakers offering contrasting perspectives on the topic and will provide plenty of opportunity for audience members to participate in Q&A and contribute to the discussion.
If you missed the 2018 conference then you can hear what speakers and participants had to say about our conference topic ‘Consumers at the heart of the energy system ? ‘ on our Videos page.
The Centre for Competition Policy and UKERC have published a new report on: Fairness in Retail Energy Markets? Evidence from the UK.
For the first time, this year’s BIEE Research Conference included a Women in Energy Session. This new session format featured a panel of three distinguished female energy experts and leaders from academia, policy and industry who shared their personal insights on three issues: personal strategies for women’s careers in the energy sector, corporate culture promoting diversity; and opportunities and challenges for women’s career advancements in consumer-centred energy systems.
UK Government’s commitment to decarbonise the economy along with developments in disrupting and decentralised technology and business models is driving a great pace of change in the way electricity is produced and consumed. For consumers we see new services and business models emerging such as peer-to-peer energy trading, home energy storage, smart tariffs (Time-of-use tariffs), Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) services, and ‘energy as a service’ when energy is bundled with other services and even goods. We believe that common arrangements that enable access to and interoperability between central and local energy markets (new and existing) is the best way to maximise the benefits from these emerging opportunities for commercial and domestic consumers.
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