This working paper explores the effectiveness of identity-based messages on reductions in household energy consumption in Doha, Qatar. Read more
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Responding to the British Prime Minister’s net zero speech on Wednesday 20 September, Esin Serin highlights the contradictions in the announcements and what the U-turn means for business, consumers and the UK’s net zero pathway. Read more
The authors of this paper use household-level panel data to estimate drivers of clean cooking technology adoption and sustained fuel use in India Read more
This research uses a novel experiment to elicit the willingness to accept of 2,430 nationally representative UK households for smart meter installation. Randomized information treatments allow for assessment of the impact on adoption and willingness to accept of oft-cited market failures, namely imperfect information asymmetries and diffusion externalities Read more
British consumers are facing a cost of energy crisis, and some ideological extremists are trying to exploit the hardship and misery with misinformation and propaganda about climate policies. Bob Ward dispels the four most common myths being propagated by opponents of net zero. Read more
In this news article Josh Burke responds to reports that the UK Government is considering offsetting the cost of higher... Read more
This submission was made by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the ESRC Centre for... Read more
The distributional impact of the low-carbon transition is an increasingly important topic both for academics and policymakers. Quantifying where the... Read more
This study estimates the combined direct and indirect rebound effects from energy efficiency improvements in the delivery of six energy... Read more
How realistic are the predicted savings to household energy bills from installing a smart meter? And how robust is the evidence behind the figures? Greer Gosnell and Daire McCoy investigate, in the second of two posts on smart meters. Read more