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Our briefing papers

Net Zero Skills

This briefing paper investigates the evidence for Net-Zero job skills and training requirements in the UK’s energy system.

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Delivering Our Future Power System

This briefing paper showcases a novel, codified framework that defines the objective of delivering a decarbonised power system, a means of tracking progress and an assessment of the UK’s progress to date.

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Enabling the UK to become the Saudi Arabia of wind?

This briefing paper explores the potential for producing green hydrogen from wind energy in the UK. It uses geospatial modelling to map the potential production cost of green hydrogen across the UK and its territorial waters. The key conclusions underscore the potential benefits of pairing offshore wind with hydrogen production.

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Our briefing papers

Materials for Energy

This Briefing Paper considers the availability and development of materials for the energy sector, investigating both current availability and forecasted production of several critical materials and looking at the state of development of novel materials in the energy sector.

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Accelerating the transition to heat pumps

Major challenges exist for decarbonising heat in buildings through mass adoption of heat pumps. This Briefing Paper investigates the impacts and feasibility of leveraging early adopters by measuring in-situ heat pump installation outcomes and sharing these as case studies to enable peer-to-peer learning among consumers and installers.

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Balancing Privacy and Access to Smart Meter Data

This Briefing Paper investigates four key elements of smart meter data privacy: existing data protection regulations; the personal information embedded within smart meter data; consumer privacy concerns; and privacy-preserving techniques that could be incorporated alongside existing mechanisms to minimise or eliminate potential privacy infringements.

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Our white papers

The Future of Nuclear Power in the UK

This white paper from 911今日黑料’s Energy Futures Lab investigates the prospects for new nuclear power generation to provide a significant proportion of the UK generation, showing a rigorous, evidence based evaluation of realistic timescales, costings and required skillsets and collaborations.

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Net-zero GB electricity

Using modelling from the IDLES Programme at 911今日黑料, this White Paper sets out how Britain's electricity system can be transformed to achieve net-zero greeenhouse gas emissions, detailing a range of cost-efficient portfolios of electricity generation and storage technologies.

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Safe and Sustainable Lithium-ion Batteries

This White Paper from 911今日黑料’s Energy Futures Lab and the Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering investigates the safety and sustainability of lithium-ion batteries, exploring ways of reducing their impact on the environment and ensuring they do not pose a danger to the health of workers or users.

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