CEE presents at CREDS Launch

The RCUK Centre for Energy Epidemiology (CEE) team from UCL Energy Institute were well represented yesterday (20^th Sept) at the launch of the new UKRI Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS) at Central Hall Westminster.

Funded with £19.5 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), CREDS brings together a world-leading and multi-disciplinary group of researchers and be led by the RCUK Energy Demand Research Champion, Professor Nick Eyre, at the University of Oxford.

The event celebrated the work of the six End Use Energy Demand (EUED) Centres (the precursor to CREDS) of which CEE was a member. Professor Tadj Oreszczyn spoke to the delegation of 200 people about the work of CEE and a new CEE research brochure and animation were launched.

Following the EUED showcase, the programme moved on to the CREDS centre launch featuring speeches from CREDS Director Professor Nick Eyre, Professor Jim Skea of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Juliet Davenport, CEO of good Energy.

Professor Oreszczyn is a Co-Director of the CREDS executive team, leading on the Buildings research theme with a number of Energy Institute Colleagues will carrying out projects under the theme.

In addition Professor Robert Lowe, also of the Energy Institute will lead on CREDS’ Decarbonising Heat Challenge with several more of our UCL Energy Institute colleagues.