The UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) carries out world-class research into sustainable future energy systems. It is the hub of UK energy research and the gateway between the UK and the international energy research communities. Our interdisciplinary, whole systems research informs UK policy development and research strategy. UKERC is funded by the Research Councils' Energy Programme.

1. Introduction to the UK Energy
Research Centre (UKERC)
September 2013

2. About UKERC
 The hub of UK energy research
 National energy research laboratory
 World-class, whole systems, interdisciplinary
 Shaping energy futures
 Informing research strategy and energy policy Sharing
knowledge
 Talking to the research, policy, media and business
communities
 The gateway between the UK and international energy
research communities

3. Who We Are
 Established in 2004
 Funded by Research Councils’
Energy Programme
 5-year funding phases: Phase 2
ends April 2014
 Phase 3 funding to 2019 approved

4. UKERC Activities
Research - across UK
Communications -HQ
UK stakeholder & policy engagement
International engagement
UK research capacity development

5. Where do we operate?
In the UK
 200 researchers active in over 30 universities and research
institutions across UK
 Meeting Place in Oxford runs popular events for the UK research
community
 National Energy Research Network
 Research Atlas
In Europe
 EC Advisory Group on Energy
 European Energy Research Alliance
 Links with International Energy Agency (IEA)
 Expert input to French National Research Agency
International
 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
 UK-China focal point
 Links with Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Brunei, South
Africa, Chile and India

6. Global Links
UKERC has a truly international reach – with strong connections throughout Europe
and with countries as diverse as Chile, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand & Brunei
Canada:
Government
Department
Brazil:
Research
Institute
Chile:
Research
Institute
Europe:
EERA
France:
Research
Centre
South Africa:
Research
Institute
Australia:
Government
Department
New Zealand:
Research
Institute
China:
Research
Institute
Japan:
Government
Department
India:
Research
Institute
Korea: Government
Department
Brunei:
Research
Institute

7. Main Audiences
UK research
community
Public
EU/
InternationalStakeholders
Media
Policy-makers Parliament
Private sector

8. UKERC Structure
Advisory
Board
Supervisory
Board
Professor John
Loughhead,
Executive Director
Energy Demand Energy Supply
Energy &
Environment
Energy Systems
Technology &
Policy Assessment
Research Themes
Networking
Research
Committee
Research Atlas
Meeting Place
National Energy
Research Network
Sparks
Capacity Building
Communications
International
Summer School
Studentships
Website
Internal/external
communications
Knowledge Transfer Network
Energy Generation & Supply
Research Co-ordination
International Engagement
Professor Jim
Watson,
Research Director

9. UKERC: A Distributed Structure
Technology & Policy
Assessment
Research Atlas &
Energy Data Centre
Energy Demand
Meeting Place
Energy Systems
Energy Supply
Energy & Environment
Research
Coordination
Over 200
members, from 30
institutions

10. Phase II – Key outputs so far
Great Expectations:
The cost of offshore
wind in UK waters
Understanding the
past and projecting
the future
Energy from biomass: the
size of the global resource
Assessment of the evidence
that biomass can make a
major contribution to future
global energy supply
Transport: What policies
are effective at reducing
carbon emissions from
surface passenger
transport?

11. Phase II – Key outputs so far
Carbon Capture and Storage:
Realising the potential?
Assesses the
technical, economic, financial and
social uncertainties facing CCS
technologies.
Carbon Emissions Accounting
A method of estimating a nation’s carbon
emissions taking into account emissions related
to shipping, aviation and those that are
embedded in imported goods and services.

12. Major outputs to come
1. Quantifying impact of global
changes on the energy market
2. Energy futures under
uncertainty
Both projects focus on decisions and
policy implementation up to
2030, tying in with the UK and
international community’s longer-
term energy and climate change
objectives and ambitions.

13. The next generation ...
 UKERC Interdisciplinary PhD
studentships
 35 studentships awarded since 2004
(programme has now come to an end)
 UKERC Annual International
Energy Summer School
 Week-long School for PhD students – 8th Year
 100 UK and international students
 Professional facilitation
 Competitive – 400+ applications

14. UK Energy Research Centre
+44 (0)20 7594 1574
www.ukerc.ac.uk