The UK Energy Research Centre's mission is to be the UK's pre-eminent centre of research, and source of authoritative information and leadership, on sustainable energy systems.
Our aim is to help you design, construct, update, operate, and manage your facilities at a lower cost, while improving sustainability and reducing CO2 emissions.
Launched on 1 April 2006, BERRs Low Carbon Buildings Programme Phase 1 will run over four years and replaces the previous DTI Clear Skies and Solar PV grant programmes. Open to householders, public, not for profit and commercial organisations across the UK (except the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man), the programme will demonstrate how energy efficiency and microgeneration can work hand in hand to create low carbon buildings.
This 600+ page Online Textbook provides free access to a comprehensive education and training package that brings together the knowledge of how countries, specifically Australia, can achieve at least 60 percent cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
National policy to reduce greenhouse gases includes ensuring local authorities deliver sustainable energy processes and policies. The 2005 ‘Sustainable energy’ beacons have created a benchmark and toolkit to help others to provide local solutions to an international problem.
The UK is acting now to adapt to climate change and to reduce the risk by reducing our contribution to the causes. These pages explains what climate change means for the UK and what we are doing about it.