Energy Seminar – Week 3: Energy use for zero carbon

Nick Eyre

Nick Eyre is Professor of Energy and Climate Policy, and Senior Research Fellow in Energy at the ECI, and a Supernumerary Fellow of Oriel College.

This talk will outline the key research findings from the work of the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS) over the last 5 years, focusing on the central role that changing the ways we use energy needs to play in the shift to a zero-carbon energy system, and the associated benefits and challenges.

Speaker: Nick Eyre is Professor of Energy and Climate Policy, and Senior Research Fellow in Energy at the ECI, and a Supernumerary Fellow of Oriel College.

Nick was Programme Leader for Energy in the ECI from 2007 to 2017. In this period, he was a Co-Director of the multi-university collaboration, the UK Energy Research Centre, leading its research work on energy demand (2007-2014) and decision-making (2014-2017). He was a Co-Investigator within the Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium from 2011-2017.

Nick has worked as a researcher, consultant and manager on energy and environmental issues since 1984. His interests focus on energy policy, especially with respect to energy demand, energy efficiency and the transition to low carbon energy systems. He has published extensively on energy, climate, environment and transport issues. He is co-author of a book on carbon markets.

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