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Our new Sussex Energy Group at SPRU Blog site
Dear friends, colleagues and followers Thank you for following Sussex Energy Group. We have switched to our in-house Sussex University WordPress site this month and you can see all our latest posts there. This site will no longer be updated. Please click on … Continue reading
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Improved energy efficiency may not mean reduced energy demand
by Dr. Steven Sorrell Improved energy efficiency and reduced energy demand are widely expected to provide the dominant contribution to reduced carbon emissions in the short to medium term – and to do so at little or possibly negative cost. … Continue reading
Will improved energy efficiency lead to increased energy consumption in the developing world? Quite possibly
A new report from the US Breakthrough Institute (BTI) provides evidence that historical improvements in the energy efficiency of lighting, steel and electricity production have led to greater energy consumption that would have been the case in the absence of … Continue reading
Response to Paterson’s unremarkable and nonsensical speech
Owen Paterson, the UK’s former Secretary of State for the Environment – and now scourge of environmentalists – made the most extraordinary speech a few days ago on climate change and energy policy[1]. The speech was a rare combination of … Continue reading
Neoclassical theory promises: a world of sustainable consumption
By Harry Saunders Allow yourself for a moment to picture a time; say 5, 10, 50 generations in the future. Imagine yourself in a world where everyone is consuming at a level that satisfies them. People need to work only … Continue reading
Why We Need to Shift Focus from Energy Supply to Reducing Demand
Mari Martiskainen asks whether it is time to have a real debate about moving our focus from energy supply to realising the benefits of energy efficiency. The International Energy Agency (IEA) reported last week that the energy efficiency market was … Continue reading
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Tagged Demand, emissions, energy efficiency, energy policy, Green deal, IEA, Mari Martiskainen, nuclear power, Reducing Demand, UK housing stock
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Tackling the existing building stock as a real energy policy priority
By Mari Martiskainen and Florian Kern, Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand, SPRU Those familiar with the UK’s energy efficiency policy for buildings are aware that back in 2006 the then Labour government announced that all new domestic buildings would … Continue reading
Davey: Energy Efficiency Key Agenda in Upcoming Elections
by Mari Martiskainen “We need to see energy efficiency as part of the nation’s infrastructure programme”. This was the charge of Ed Davey, Liberal MP and Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. Davey was speaking at an Association for … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Warren, Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand, CIED, Dash for Cash, Ed Davey, Ed Davey; Mari Martiskainen;, energy efficiency as part of the nation's infrastructure programme, Green deal, infrastructure, Mari Martiskainen, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change., SPRU, Sussex Energy Group, Tyndall, UK
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The Second Big Transition or the Struggle for Inclusive Capitalism
A blog by Johan Schot, following the fifth International Sustainability Transitions conference, Utrecht, August 29 2014 It was a great pleasure to present a keynote address at the fifth International Conference on Sustainability Transitions, for two reasons. First, some 15 years … Continue reading
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Tagged #IST2014, Dutch transition network, innovation, International Sustainability Transitions, International Sustainability Transitions Conference, Johan Schot, MLP, Multi-level Perspective, Science Policy Research Unit, Second big transition, SPRU, transformative change and Innovation, transition theory
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Didcot power station is yet another power station out of action, but what does this mean for UK security of supply this winter?
The fire last week at Didcot power station has led once again to cries of “the lights are going to go out this winter”. But people who ask whether or not the lights will go out are asking the wrong … Continue reading →