Centre for Energy PolicyOur Research
The Centre for Energy Policy work on a wide array of projects. Our research studies cover the full energy supply chain and include the economic impacts of changes in the system. Our work covers a variety of themes:
Projects
- Exploring the Macro Economic Impact of Household and Public Building Insulation measures on the Scottish Economy
Publications
- Laying the Foundations for a Net Zero Society: Principles and Infrastructure for a Climate Resilient and Economically Sustainable Recovery
- Delivering Prosperity: Industrial Decarbonisation and the Just Transition
- Economic narratives for a 'just transition'?
- Beyond Carbon Leakage: Off-Shoring of Employment and GDP in Decarbonizing International Supply Chains
- Making the case for supporting broad energy efficiency programmes: Impacts on household incomes and other economic benefits
- How improving household efficiency could boost the Scottish economy
- Increased Household Energy Efficiency: Can it Boost the UK Economy?
- Increasing energy efficiency in Scottish Households
- So which households can benefit from energy efficiency and is there an argument to fund it from the public purse?
- Scotland's Green Jobs Conundrum: How to Better Measure the Employment Impact of a Low Carbon Future
Blogs
Publications
- Who Ultimately Pays for and Who Gains from the Electricity Network Upgrade for EV's to Support the UK's Net Zero Carbon Ambition?
- Modelling the Distribution of Costs from Network Upgrades for Electric Vehicles (EVs)
- Who ultimately pays for the electricity network upgrade for EVs?
- Who Ultimately Pays for and Who Gains from The Electricity Network Upgrade for EVs
Blogs
- What will the electric vehicle revolution mean for our electricity system?
- No more petrol and diesel powered cars by 2032
Projects
- "Making the macroeconomic case for energy policy actions? The case of CCS"
- SE CCUS narrative project
Publications
- How is Planned Public Investment to Enable CCS Likely to Impact the Wider UK Economy?
- Delivering Prosperity: Industrial Decarbonisation and the Just Transition
- A ‘Carbon Saving Multiplier’ as an alternative to rebound in considering reduced energy supply chain requirements from energy efficiency?
- To what extent will industrial energy efficiency reduce energy use across the economy?
- The Role of CCS in Industry Clusters in Delivering Value to the Political Economy
- Reframing the Value Case for Carbon Capture and Storage
- Making the Macroeconomic Case for Near Term Action on CCS in the UK? The Current State of Economy-wide Modelling Evidence
- Impacts of Regional Productivity Growth, Decoupling and Pollution Leakage
Projects
- Energy saving innovations and economic rebound effects
- Exploring the Macro Economic case for energy policy actions? Energy efficency in Scotland and the UK
- Potential Economic Impacts of Scottish Governments £20 million 'Post-Brexit' Energy Efficency Spending Stimulus
Publications
- Indirect Rebound Involving Embodied Energy Use Re-spending Decisions
- Potential Wider Economic Impacts of the Energy Efficient Scotland programme
- International spillover and rebound effects from increased energy efficiency in Germany
- Can We Retain the Economy-Wide Benefits of Energy Efficiency While Reducing the Energy Rebound?
- Reducing Rebound Without Sacrificing Macroeconomic Benefits of Increased Energy Efficiency?
- Energy Saving Innovations and Economy Wide Rebound Effects
- Multiplier Analysis of Re-spending Rebound Effects
- So What If There Were a Larger and More Sustained Energy Efficiency Effort across the Economy, What Would be the Impact?
- Workshop on linking CGE and TIMES models: lessons learned and next steps
Blogs
- The Case for Considering Wider Impacts in the Design of Energy Efficency Policy
- People at the heart of the CLimate Change Plan?
- Is £13 Billion the actual cost to move from the 80% to 90% decarbonisation target in Scotland? Are we missing something?
- Karen Turner - End of Year Reflections
- A Scottish publicy owned energy company?
- Getting Policy Impact from your Research
- Future energy scenarios in the Scottish Energy Strategy: What can we expect in 2050?
- The Scottish Energy Strategy: welcome new dimensions
- The Scottish Government's Energy Efficency Programme - public or private spending
- Scotland's Energy Strategy: an ambition too far?
- Whither offshore wind?
- Brexit horizons for energy policy in Scotland: taking back control?
- What impact might Brexit have on energy supply and policy in Scotland and the UK?
- Wave energy: ready to set sail or sinking under Brexit & Conservative energy strategy?
- Comments on the Scottish Government's Climate Change Plan
- How committed is Scotland to combatting climate change? At any cost? Or are there limits to what we’d give up?
- Getting the best out of energy system models to support climate policymaking
- The use of economic and energy system modelling for energy policy analysis
- Modelling the economic impact of carbon reduction targets in the Scottish Government’s new Climate Change Plan: more work to be done
Publications
- Mission Impossible? Five Challenges Facing 'Mission Innovation', the Global CLean Energy Innovation Drive
- Devolution of the Crown Estate and energy policy
- How not to run an energy policy: the lessons from three decades
- Elephants in Energy: 5 things to consider in energy policy
- The Energy System challenge... Supply & Demand working together
- Natural Gas in UK and Scottish Energy Policy
- Seven Questions about Fracking in Scotland