Modelling

Research Activities

Phase 4: Energy Modelling Hub

Energy models provide the underpinning evidence to support decision makers across policy, industry...

Projects

Zonal Pricing, Volume Risk and the 2030 Clean Power Target

This timely project sought to understand how zonal pricing will impact investor risk in upcoming...

Infrastructure Transformation: The First 10 Years of Net Zero

Net zero is an infrastructure challenge. In parallel with large scale societal, behavioural and...

Incumbents and new entrants

Using insights from the Investment in infrastructures, Governance of continuity and...

National scale spatial modelling

The ADVENT programme has developed a sophisticated modelling tool that can be used to optimally...

Data and output resolution when modelling at spatial scale

Spatial scaling Incorporating the environmental implications of energy technologies into decision...

Modelling synergies and tensions between transitions

As the focus of decarbonising the UK economy moves from electricity to heat and transport, both...

Macro-Economic Effects of Energy Transitions

Previous UKERC research lead to substantial advances in modelling, particualrly in helping to...

Representing disruption and continuity in energy models

This systematic evidence review forms part of the wider UKERC Phase 3 integrating project on...

Energy and Economy

Modelling different energy pathways The aim of the project is to understand further the...

Modelling Spatial & Temporal Diversity

This project will draw upon engineering knowledge to articulate a set of necessary but sufficient...

Modelling energy demand in energy system models

The issue: a need to better understand the models that inform demand-side energy...

Energy system resource use and impacts on ecosystems

The overarching aim of this project is to assess and improve existing practice of quantifying the...

Assessing potential, feasibility and impacts of bioenergy with CCS in the UK (Assess-BECCS)

The overall aims of the project are to: Assess the role of Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and...

Publications

Working paper

Zonal Pricing, Volume Risk and the 2030 Clean Power Target

New UKERC modelling is assessing the interactions between transmission build-rates and the possible introduction of zonal pricing in the British electricity market. It cautions that investors currently face high uncertainty, and considerable volume of sales risks, with a material impact on renewable energy auctions that are essential for meeting clean power 2030 targets.

Mar 2025

Briefing paper

Electrifying Industry and Distribution Networks: Considerations for Policymakers

The policy brief calls on government to ensure that electricity networks are strengthened according to new demands, and anticipatory investment is enabled to support industrial decarbonisation. It also recommends that policymakers provide clarity on plans for industrial electrification, while strengthening data on future industrial electricity demand to create an accurate picture of future needs.

Feb 2025

News

Video

Watch the UKERC, IEA and EDRC Webinar: Reducing Energy Demand – A UK Success Story?

In this webinar, lead authors of the International Energy Agency’s Energy Efficiency 2024 report...

26 Mar 2025

Blog

Making UKERC’s Research Data Available: How Did We Do?

Research data is an important outcome of research. Making it accessible to everyone in a way that...

05 Mar 2025