Towards a Sustainable Energy Economy

*News: TSEC2 Recent Roundtables and Workshops (convened by Climate Strategies)*

• Final Workshop: International Strategies to Address Competitiiveness Concerns Hosted by SWP, Berlin: 22nd June 2007.
• Roundtable 1: Sectoral Agreements and Output-based Allocation Hosted by IDDRI, Paris: 7th May 2007.
• Roundtable 2: Consitency of ETS Hosted by Climate Strategies, Bonn:4th May 2006.
• Roundtable 3: Impact of CO2 Price Uncertainty on Investment Decisions Hosted by The University of Cambridge, Cambridge: 17th May 2007.
• Roundtable 4: Model Comparison workshop Hosted by Jussieu University, Paris: 21st June 2007.

The Towards a Sustainable Energy Economy (TSEC) programme is a major component of the UK’s science and technology strategy in the field of energy, and is the first programme that integrates research from the ESRC, EPSRC and NERC. The objective of the programme is to find reliable, diverse, affordable, publicly acceptable and safe ways to supply the growing demand for energy, while minimizing the carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels.

On October 1 2005 the Electricity Policy Research Group began a programme of research funded under the TSEC programme that contributes to the work of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) through three research projects:

TSEC 1 Delivering Secure, Reliable and Diverse Energy in a Liberalised Market

TSEC 2 Energy, Emissions and Technology Policy in European and Global Contexts

TSEC 3 Public Attitudes and Processes of Governance

These projects have economics at their intellectual core but are also inter-disciplinary & interactive, both building on our earlier work under the Cambridge-MIT Electricity Project, and other existing research projects, particularly SuperGen, and allowing us to expand the scope of our research in important new directions.