CREDS Director
University of Oxford
Professor Nick Eyre, based at the University of Oxford, is the Director of CREDS and a Professor of Energy and Climate Policy.
Nick is Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy. Previously, he was leader of the Lower Carbon Futures Programme in the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) and a Co-Director of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC), leading its research theme on decision-making.
Nick was a lead author of the ‘Buildings’ Chapter of the Mitigation Report of 5th Assessment of the IPCC, and is a review editor in the 6th Assessment. He was a lead author of the Global Energy Assessment in 2012. Nick has 35 years’ experience on energy issues.
He is scientific advisor on climate change to Oxford City Council and a Fellow of the Energy Institute. From 1999-2008, he was Head of Policy and Director of Strategy at the Energy Saving Trust. He was a co-author of the UK Government’s 2002 Review of Energy Policy, leading its work on energy efficiency and energy scenarios.
Policy & Governance
Energy use in a net-zero UK – lessons from lockdown
Publications
- Heating our homes – CREDS Response to ESNZ Select Committee Inquiry
- Summary of findings from heat pump flexibility expert workshop
- Strategy and policy statement for energy policy in Great Britain: CREDS response
- Energy supply/demand policy asymmetry: A meta-narrative review for a systems explanation
- CREDS Annual Report: October 2021 to September 2022
- Net Zero review: call for evidence
- The energy price crisis – issues for energy use
- Reinventing energy efficiency for net zero
- New times, new policies? Policies to change energy use in the context of zero carbon
- Energy demand reduction options for meeting national zero-emission targets in the United Kingdom
- The role of energy demand in policymaking for a just transition to net zero: a comparative survey in the UK, the Netherlands and Germany
- Geospatial multi-criteria analysis for identifying optimum wind and solar sites in Africa: Towards effective power sector decarbonization
- CREDS Annual Report: October 2020 to September 2021
- The role of energy demand reduction in achieving net-zero in the UK
- Positive low energy futures briefing
- From using heat to using work: reconceptualising the zero carbon energy transition
- Pathways to a zero carbon Oxfordshire
- Summary: thirty years of climate mitigation
- Thirty years of climate mitigation: lessons from the 1989 options appraisal for the UK
- The story of condensing boiler market transformation – a briefing note for BEIS
- BEIS consultation: Energy-related products
- Policy for energy demand reduction
- How weather affects energy demand variability in the transition towards sustainable heating
- Consultation: Future Homes Standard – changes to Part L and Part F of the Building Regulations for new dwellings
- CREDS Annual Report: April 2018–September 2019
- Consultation: facilitating energy efficiency in the electricity system
- Flexible and responsive energy retail markets: putting consumers at the centre of a smart, low carbon energy system
- Consultation on the Fuel Poverty Strategy for England
- Shifting the focus: energy demand in a net-zero carbon UK: Report highlights
- Shifting the focus: energy demand in a net-zero carbon UK
- Shifting the focus: 1 Introduction: why energy demand is important to a low carbon transition
- Shifting the focus: 6 Using zero carbon energy
- Shifting the focus: 8 Conclusions
- Shifting the focus: 9 Detailed recommendations
- Energy efficiency in the energy transition
- Energy demand in the energy transition
- A high-resolution spatio-temporal energy demand simulation to explore the potential of heating demand side management with large-scale heat pump diffusion
- Technologies for meeting Clean Growth emissions reduction targets inquiry: consultation response
- The remaining potential for energy savings in UK households
- An international review of markets for voluntary green electricity tariffs
- Reaching a 1.5°C target: socio-technical challenges for a rapid transition to low-carbon electricity systems
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