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EPSRC Reference:	EP/R035288/1
Title:	UK Centre for Research on Energy Demand
Principal Investigator:	Eyre, Professor N
Other Investigators:	Mullen, Dr CA Schwanen, Professor T Sorrell, Professor SR Anable, Professor JL Buchs, Dr MM Elwell, Dr CA Webb, Professor J Chatterton, Dr TJ Eames, Professor PC Ruyssevelt, Professor PA Foxon, Professor TJ Lowe, Professor RJ Barrett, Professor J Geels, Professor FW Taylor, Professor P Smith, Dr S T Lovelace, Dr R O'Sullivan, Dr A M Fouquet, Dr R Hamilton, Dr I Chitnis, Dr M Chiu, Dr L Potter, Dr BA Torriti, Professor J Barrett, Professor M Grubb, Professor MJ Smith, Professor ASJ van der Horst, Dr D Oreszczyn, Professor T Shove, Professor E Whiteing, Dr AE Shipworth, Professor D Lucas, Professor K Marsden, Professor GR Coker, Dr P Wadud, Dr Z Mattioli, Dr G Sovacool, Professor B Sakai, Dr M Blue, Dr S J
Researcher Co-Investigators:	Dr T Fawcett Dr G M Huebner Mr AZP Smith
Project Partners:	Assoc for Conservation of Energy (ACE) Committee on Climate Change Dept for Bus, Energy & Ind Strat (BEIS) EDF Energy Plc (UK) Energy Saving Trust Ltd (The) Energy Systems Catapult Ofgem PassivSystems Limited
Department:	Environmental Change Institute SoGE
Organisation:	University of Oxford
Scheme:	Standard Research
Starts:	01 April 2018	Ends:	31 March 2023	Value (£):	19,435,274
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Energy Efficiency
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Environment Energy Transport Systems and Vehicles
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Panel History:	Panel Date Panel Name Outcome 19 Jan 2018 EPSRC EUED Champion 2017 Announced
Summary on Grant Application Form
This proposal responds to a call from the Research Councils for a national Centre on energy demand research, building on the work of the existing six End Use Energy Demand Centres, for which funding ends in April 2018. Energy demand reduction is a UK success story, with a 15% fall in final energy consumption since 2004. Major further reductions are possible and will be needed, as part of a transformation of the energy system to low carbon, to deliver the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UK carbon budgets. Moreover, a low carbon energy system will be increasingly reliant upon inflexible and variable electricity generation, and therefore demand will also need to become more flexible. In short, changes in energy demand reduction will need to go further and faster, and demand will need to become more flexible. These challenges have far-reaching implications for technology, business models, social practices and policy. Our vision is for energy demand research in the UK to rise to these challenges. The Centre's ambition is to lead whole systems work on energy demand in the UK, collaborating with a wider community both at home and internationally. We aim to deliver globally leading research on energy demand, to secure much greater impact for energy demand research and to champion the importance of energy demand for delivering environmental, social and economic goals. Our research programme is inter-disciplinary, recognising that technical and social change are inter-dependent and co-evolve. It is organised into six Themes. Three of these address specific issues in the major sectors of energy use, namely: buildings, transport and industry. The remaining three address more cross-cutting issues that drive changing patterns of demand, namely the potential for increased flexibility, the impact of digital technologies, and energy policy and governance. Each Theme has a research programme that has been developed with key stakeholders and will provide the capacity for the Centre to inform debate, deliver impact and share knowledge in its specific area of work. The Themes will also undertake collaborative work, with our first joint task being to assess the role of energy demand in delivering the objectives of the UK Government's Clean Growth Plan. The Centre will also include Challenges that respond to cross-thematic questions for UK energy demand. These will mostly be developed in consultation over the early years of the Centre, and therefore only one is included in the initial plan: on the decarbonisation of heat. The Centre will function as a national focus for inter-disciplinary research on energy demand. In doing this it will need to respond to a rapidly evolving energy landscape. It will therefore retain 25% of its funds to allocate during the lifetime of the Centre through a transparent governance process. These funds will support further challenges and a 'Flexible Fund', which will be used to support research on emerging research questions, in particular through support for early career researchers. We are working closely with key stakeholders in business and policy to design our research programme and we plan detailed knowledge exchange activities to ensure that the work of the UK energy demand research community has broader societal impact.
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