Policy analysis

Policy analysis

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.

The Expert Support Network is available through the Planning Renewables website and provides advice, guiance and support to local planning officers

Expert Support Network for planners

Policy analysis

Goring Almshouses could be heated using biomass from surrounding woodland

Feasibility studies for the Community Sustainable Energy Programme

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

Do urban communities in Wales experience higher levels of fuel poverty than rural communities?

Targeting energy efficiency resources in Wales

Policy analysis

Does sustainable energy have a role in the home-buying and mortgage markets?

Making Mortgages Energy Efficient?

Policy analysis

A significant number of Cornwall's hard-to-treat homes are these 'Cornish Units' which date from the 1940s and 1950s and suffer from poor insulation*

Cornwall Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency Action Plan

Policy analysis

CSE's evaluation found that removing households from fuel poverty through energy efficiency is very difficult

Warm Zones Evaluation

Policy analysis

What will be the impact of the newly liberalised gas and electricity markets on low-income households?

Competition Monitor

Policy analysis

Getting his hands on the biomass

Biomass Feasibility Study for Bristol City Council

Policy analysis

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