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Presentation: The IGov Project
The IGov Project From: Catherine Mitchell, Caroline Kuzemko, Richard Hoggett and Matthew Lockwood To: RCUK Strategy Fellowship Team, 23rd February 2015 Outline Energy Policy Group IGov Overview Energy Demand Research Questions and Approach Phase 1: theoretical framework Innovation Governance Change and Inertia Institutionalist approach Phase 2: GB and Comparative Countries UK Rules and Incentives Comparative Countries Case Studies Phase 3: Bringing it Together Download presentation: Skea-team-Feb
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CMA Energy Market Investigation – Updated Issues Statement
CMA Energy Market Investigation – Updated Issues Statement Catherine Mitchell, IGov Team, 18th February 2015 The Competition and Mergers Authority (CMA) has just published an Updated issues Statement. This is one of a series of consultative documents which will be published during the course of the investigation for before publication of the provisional findings in May 2015. Source: CMA 2014: 6 The Updated Issues Statement sets out a number of areas where the CMA has come to preliminary, but not final, findings and also areas where they would like to have more information. As the
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New Thinking: Turning a First Step into a Journey: Energy Efficiency in the Private Rental Sector
Turning a First Step into a Journey: Energy Efficiency in the Private Rental Sector Tom Steward, IGov Team, 17th February 2015 About Tom: http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/igov/people/igov-team/tom-steward/ In recent weeks came the final confirmation of another policy designed to help improve efficiency in the private rental sector. Originally provisioned in the 2011 Energy Act, a Government response to consultation sets out that from 2018, all private rental sector properties [1] have to have a minimum standard of EPC rating E. This was coupled with a ruling that from 2016, landlords will be unable to refuse reasonable requests from tenants for the
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Working Paper: Mapping Policies for Improved Efficiency & Reductions in Final Demand
Mapping Policies for Improved Efficiency & Reductions in Final Demand: All Sectors (Excluding Transport) By: Tom Steward – Energy Policy Group, University of Exeter EPG Working Paper: 1501 Abstract: This paper maps the broad range of different policies which currently exist in the UK to support demand reduction or improve energy efficiency. The paper is not intended to be exhaustive in its detail of each policy, but give a broad overview of the policy landscape. It is designed to provide a comprehensive map of all major policy areas aimed at reducing consumption or improving efficiency across the
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New Thinking: Last ditch bullying by Coalition Government to keep Hinkley on track
Last ditch bullying by Coalition Government to keep Hinkley on track Catherine Mitchell, IGov Team, 12th February 2015 The UK is now ‘issuing threats’ to Austria that a series of retaliatory measures will be undertaken if Austria goes ahead with its legal challenge to the EU State Aid decision approving GB Government support for Hinkley point nuclear power plant. The Guardian reports the Austria Chancellor’s spokesman saying that this ‘is a kind of behaviour we don’t want to see among partners in the EU’. All of which points to the desperation that the Coalition is showing
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Presentation: UK energy policy and the role of community energy
From ‘dirty’ energy to sustainable energy: UK Energy Policy and the role of community energy From: Catherine Mitchell To: Exeter Community Energy, Exeter, 10th February 2015 Outline How is energy developing at EU / global level? Much more practice change (ie increased renewables; new companies; more community energy) happening in countries other than GB How is energy developing in GB? Energy, anyway always political, has become very political under the coalition Focus on nuclear power Lip service to renewables, efficient energy demand management, energy demand reduction, community energy etc Some changes at city / community level driven
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Book Chapter: The Political Dynamics of Green Transformations: Feedback Effects and Institutional Context
Matthew Lockwood The Political Dynamics of Green Transformations: Feedback Effects and Institutional Context in I. Scoones, M. Leach and P. Newell (eds.) The Politics of Green Transformations. Published by Routledge, January 2015. For more information visit the Routledge website. Multiple ‘green transformations’ are required if humanity is to live sustainably on planet Earth. Recalling past transformations, this book examines what makes the current challenge different, and especially urgent. It examines how green transformations must take place in the context of the particular moments of capitalist development, and in relation to particular alliances. The role of
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CMA Energy Market Investigation
The Energy Policy Group recently attended a hearing on the CMA Energy Market Investigation. We started the hearing with a prepared opening statement: ….Thank you for inviting us to this hearing. We are not economists. Our research focuses on innovation and a more ‘whole system’ approach to how energy systems might change from their current configurations to something which is more sustainable while also ensuring affordability and security. It is very important that climate change is addressed. The required reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide will not be achieved overnight, and it is generally accepted that the change
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New Thinking: We need Board Quota’s for Women in Energy
We need Board Quota’s for Women in Energy Catherine Mitchell, IGov Team, 3rd February 2015 A new report Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC) and POWERful Women (PfW) (an industry body) Igniting Change: building the pipeline of female leaders in energy calls for 40% of energy company middle management and 30% of executive boards to be female by 2030, and sets out a route map for it to be achieved. New research for the report shows that 61% of those surveyed believe the most compelling commercial reason for increased gender diversity is better decision making. Igniting Change: building the
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New Thinking: The empire strikes back – first capacity auction outcomes
The empire strikes back – first capacity auction outcomes Matthew Lockwood, IGov Team, 26 Jan 2015 About Matthew: http://geography.exeter.ac.uk/staff/index.php?web_id=Matthew_Lockwood Twitter: https://twitter.com/climatepolitics As regular readers of the IGov blog will know, one of our favourite topics is the capacity market – see here, here and here – probably because it is such a clear demonstration of how governance of the UK energy system can act to impede change in the direction of a more sustainable system. Now the results of the first capacity market are in, the dust is settling, and it is beginning to become clear what has
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