Reducing Energy Demand

EUED showcased at CREDS launch

The six EUED Centres were well represented at the launch of the Centre for Research on Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS). The new Centre follows on from the work of the EUED Centres and will be led by Professor Nick Eyre of the University of Oxford.

The event was held at Central Hall Westminster on 20th September and featured exhibitions from each of the EUED Centres followed by speeches…

SuperSmart Retail Workshop on Supermarkets On 7th April 2018, a ’SuperSmart Retail Workshop on Supermarkets’ took place as part of the 5th IIR Conference on Sustainability and the Cold Chain (ICCC) 2018. The two-hour workshop presented recent findings by the joint project on supermarkets; the End Use Energy Demand (EUED) Centres, the European H2020 SuperSmart project and the Heat Pumping…

A Bayesian Dynamic Method

A Bayesian Dynamic Method to Estimate the Thermophysical Properties of Building Elements in All Seasons, Orientations and with Reduced Error Open access article ‘A Bayesian Dynamic Method to Estimate the Thermophysical Properties of Building Elements in All Seasons, Orientations and with Reduced Error’ written by Virginia Gori, Phillip Biddulph and Clifford A. Elwell, RCUK Centre for Energy…

CIE-MAP Presents at Ecobuild 2018  On the 8 March 2018, Jannik Giesekam, Research Fellow, Centre for Industrial Energy, Materials and Products (CIE-MAP), presented at the Ecobuild 2018 conference in London. The conference session ‘Sustainability report for the UK built environment – doing well or could do better?’ was inspired by a recent UKGBC project gathering indicators of sustainability in…

Book Launch: Innovating Climate Governance

Book Launch: Innovating Climate Governance: Moving Beyond Experiments CIED EVENT Thursday, 3 May 2018 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm King’s College London, The Exchange, Bush House, Aldwych ‘Innovating Climate Governance: Moving Beyond Experiments’, co-edited by Dr Paula Kivimaa, Senior Research Fellow, Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand (CIED), Dr Bruno Turnheim, King’s College London and Professor Frans…

Nordic Electricity System Transition

A Qualitative Study of Electricity and Decarbonisation Challenges in the Nordic Region Blog by Benjamin Sovacool, Director, Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand (CIED), looks at the challenges of Electricity and Decarbonisation in the Nordic Region. Excerpt The Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden – have aggressive climate and energy policies in place and have…

CIED Co-Director made AcSS Fellow

CIED Co-Director made Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) Fellow On 5 April 2018 the AcSS announced they have conferred the award of Fellow to Professor Frank Geels, Co-Director, Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand (CIED). Professor Geels was among fifty-eight new Fellows drawn from academics, practitioners and policymakers across the social sciences who were recognised for the excellence and…

Woodbuild Wales 2018 – CIE-MAP

Carbon budgets and the role of timber Woodbuild Wales 2018 Conference and Expo On the 14th June 2018, Dr Jannik Giesekam, Research Fellow, the Centre for Industrial Energy, Materials and Products (CIE-MAP) will speak about carbon budgets and the role of timber at the Woodbuild Wales 2018 Conference and Expo. The event will be held at Cardiff Metropolitan University and is organised by…

Estimation of thermophysical properties

Estimation of thermophysical properties from in-situ measurements in all seasons: Quantifying and reducing errors using dynamic grey-box methods Journal Article ‘Estimation of thermophysical properties from in-situ measurements in all seasons: Quantifying and reducing errors using dynamic grey-box methods’ co-authored by Virginia Gori, Research Associate at the RCUK Centre for Energy Epidemiology…

EVENT: Advancing Net Zero

EVENT – Advancing Net Zero: next steps in holistic carbon reductions On the 19 April 2018, Dr Jannik Giesekam, Research Fellow, the Centre for Industrial Energy, Materials and Products (CIE-MAP) will speak at a one-day UKGBC event ‘Advancing Net Zero: next steps in holistic carbon reductions’ at the Saint-Gobain Innovation Centre, London. Excerpt – UKGBC Website With an overall goal to be net…

Book Chapter by CIED Researcher

New Chapter ‘Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy and Natural Resources’ New book chapter on the politics of South Africa’s energy procurement written by Dr Lucy Baker, Researcher, the Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand (CIED) and Jesse Burton, the Energy Research Centre of the University of Cape Town. This book chapter is part of the edited volume ‘Handbook on the…

Humanizing sociotechnical transitions through energy justice: An ethical framework for global transformative change Article on humanizing sociotechnical transitions published by the Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand (CIED). This article is written by Professor Benjamin Sovacool, Director, CIED, former CIED Research Fellow, Dr Kirsten Jenkins and Dr Darren McCauley, Senior Lecturer,…

Poorest households hit hardest

Poorest households hit hardest by UK climate change levy despite using least energy Article on the poorest households hit the hardest by the UK’s climate change levy, published by the Centre for Industrial Energy, Materials and Products (CIE-MAP). This article was originally published by ‘The Conversation’ and is written by Professor John Barrett, Director, CIE-MAP and Dr Anne Owen, Research…

Fossil fuel subsidies need to go

Fossil fuel subsidies need to go – but what about the poorer people who rely on cheap energy? Article on fossil fuel subsidies published by the Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand (CIED), this article was originally published by The Conversation and is written by Benjamin Sovacool, Director, CIED and Jessica Jewell, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). Almost all…

Towards a modular and temporal understanding of system diffusion

Towards a modular and temporal understanding of system diffusion: Adoption models and socio-technical theories applied to Austrian biomass district-heating (1979–2013)   A new paper by Professor Frank Geels, Co-Director, The Centre on Innovation Demand (CIED) and Dr Victoria Johnson, Research Associate at the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI), University of Manchester looks at applying…