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This UKERC blog by Will Blyth outlines the key messages from the Government’s Energy White Paper which sets out commitments and policy proposals for a

Article published in Climatic Change with Paul Watkiss. A review of decision-support tools for assessing climate change adaptation investments.

UK politicians are mired in a fruitless blame-game about energy prices. But high prices are not the problem. It is the total bill that matters, especially to poorer consumers. Dealing with the poor efficiency standards of existing UK housing stock is the way to tackle this. And reducing fossil fuel subsidies could provide the source of finance to do so.

See here for an article of nuclear subsidies published in May 2013 edition of ‘The Conversation’

OEA wrote the background paper which launched the Parliamentary Inquiry into UK energy subsidies on April 24th 2013.  The report sets out the various ways

This research project was carried out over a period of 18 months to December 2012 for EPRI, the Electric Power Research Institute in California.  The

In Feb 2013, OEA led a 3 day training course for the Hong Kong government on strategic issues affecting energy sector planning.  Delivered in partnership

Will Blyth was part of the team working for IRENA to develop ‘Renewable Energy Readiness Assessments‘.  This involved developing a framework for defining policy readiness,

This project developed a new analytical tool for assessing the effects of uncertainty in both carbon and electricity markets, taking account of the strong links

The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) produces annual projections of carbon prices for use in appraisal of any government policy that might