Policy analysis

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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.

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

Policy analysis

Future obligations should focus on what we need energy suppliers to do and what they are best placed to do.

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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