Policy analysis

Policy analysis Policy

From testing energy policy proposals for their distributional impact to advising regulators on low carbon network incentives, we seek to improve the policies and practices which shape the energy system and the energy-related choices and opportunities available to us all. 

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PIAG is exploring how we could best realise the potentially significant public interest benefits of installing smart meters in every home.
Smart Meter Energy Data Public Interest Advisory Group (PIAG)
Policy analysis
The smart energy vision includes enhancing the financial value of renewable heat and power generated in the city – particularly from variable sources like wind, solar and tidal.
Bristol Smart Energy City Collaboration
Policy analysis
Working with researchers and policy makers
Policy analysis
Open Data
Policy analysis
Future obligations should focus on what we need energy suppliers to do and what they are best placed to do.
Beyond the ECO
Policy analysis
The heat map in split-screen mode, showing total heat demand in Hereford. The circled 'hotspot' in the left-hand map is a public swimming pool
National Heat Map
Policy analysis
Older meters such as these will soon be replaced by new 'smart' meters – which should in theory bring benefits to consumers
Smart meter review for Which? calls for action on roll-out plan
Policy analysis
Fuel poverty can strike all types of low-income household including single unemployed and young families
Social Impact Bonds and fuel poverty
Policy analysis
An electricity pylon viewed through miscanthus, or elephant grass, a carbon-neutral energy crop
Embedding an understanding of sustainable energy in Ofgem
Policy analysis
Home owners who fit solar panels are contributors to UK carbon-reduction targets. But incentives like feed-in tariffs are funded by energy companies who recoup the costs from their customers, irrespective of their wealth. Is this fair?
Distributional impacts of UK climate change policies
Policy analysis
Personal carbon trading has lost some of its allure among policy makers. If it was made fairer would interest be rekindled?
Personal carbon trading: making the system fairer
Policy analysis
Switching tariff can help some households out of fuel poverty
Energy Best Deal annual impact evaluation
Policy analysis
Paro Konar, Senior Analyst at the Department of Energy and Climate Change outlines from a government perspective what is already known about the distributional impacts of UK climate policy: who wins and who loses out.
30th anniversary policy workshop (London, 2009)
Policy analysis
CSE's report recommends various ways that local authorities can act to tackle the threat of climate change
'Easy Wins', 'Big Strides' and 'Lasting Impacts'
Policy analysis
Not ready for take-off? Individual carbon trading, which could require frequent air travellers to buy ‘carbon credits’, is a ‘radical’ and politically challenging concept*
PCAs: 'Feasible and Fair'
Policy analysis
Town halls can use the Matrix – which is available to download for free from the right hand column – to better understand their influence on carbon emissions
Local Carbon Management Matrix
Policy analysis
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