Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Director
Executive team
- Jillian Anable
- John Barrett
- Tina Fawcett
- Tim Foxon
- Bill Gale
- Robert Lowe
- Mari Martiskainen
- Tadj Oreszczyn
- Steven Robert Sorrell
- Jacopo Torriti
Core team
- Clare Downing - Centre Manager
- Aimee K Eeles - Knowledge Exchange Manager (Business)
- Hannah Harris - Website & Communications Manager
- Sarah Higginson - Knowledge Exchange Manager (Research)
- Kay Jenkinson - Knowledge Exchange Manager (Policy)
- Peter Mallaburn - Knowledge Exchange Manager (Policy & Government Affairs)
- Anne L Ryan - Assistant to Director and Centre Administrator
- Sarah Wakeling - Centre Administrator
Advisory board members
- Dr Joanne Wade, Association for Decentralised Energy, Chair
- Professor Harriett Bulkeley, Durham University
- Dr Siobhan Campbell, Department for Transport
- Dr Hywel Davies, Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
- Dr Sylvie Douzou, Electricité du France, R&D, Paris
- Dr Steven Fawkes, EnergyPro
- Ms Maxine Frerk, Independent
- Mr Adrian Gault, Committee on Climate Change
- Ms Sue Kearns, Scottish Government
- Mr Richard Hall, Citizens Advice
- Dr Mirabelle Muûls, Imperial College London
- Dr Clemens Rohde, Fraunhofer Insitute for System Innovation Research, Karlsruhe
- Mr Jon Saltmarsh, Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
- Ms Claire Dykta, National Grid
CREDS is a research centre established in 2018 with a vision to make the UK a leader in understanding the changes in energy demand needed for the transition to a secure and affordable, low carbon energy system.
RESEARCH THEMES
Description of the Centre
We are a team of more than 130 academics at more than 20 academic institutions across the UK.
The UK is committed, under the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UK Climate Change Act, to move towards a zero-carbon energy system. This radically changes the energy demand challenge, as it can only be delivered by combining reduction in energy use with switching to the use of decarbonised fuels.
In order to address the scale of the challenges, energy demand research needs to focus on the challenges of demand side change going 'further, faster and flexibly'. Studies of incremental efficiency improvement and minor behavioural changes will not be sufficient; attention to more transformative change is needed. This changing context for energy implies new research questions in the areas of technology, business models, social change and governance, and in their interaction. Our vision is for energy demand research in the UK to rise to this challenge.
