Policy delivery for low carbon energy infrastructure in the UK
Abstract
The ambition of this conference was to deliver a first examination of how policy is delivered in the context of low-carbon energy infrastructure in the UK. The UK has been developing policy in this area since 2002 (Heffron, 2013). Finally, as the decade passed, in November 2012 an Energy Bill was put before the UK Parliament. One of the chief purposes of this Energy Bill is to establish the right environment for new electricity generation infrastructure in the low-carbon sector. There is significant debate on how this will be achieved and, indeed, whether this piece of legislation will actually deliver this outcome. This conference aimed to examine the dynamics of policy delivery. Throughout the day, there was entertaining discussion as a variety of conference presenters provided interesting contributions on how to deliver such policy goals. In total, there were twelve speakers throughout the day representing the UK (University of Oxford, Pinsent Masons Law Firm, University of Stirling, University of Dundee and University of Aberdeen), and also those who provided lessons from abroad from the University of Copenhagen, Central European University, Milieu Ltd., Pillsbury Law Firm (Washington DC, US) and the Conservation Law Foundation (MA, US).
Citation
Heffron , R , Johnson , A , McCauley , D & Jenkins , K E H 2013 , ' Policy delivery for low carbon energy infrastructure in the UK ' , Energy Policy , vol. 61 , pp. 1367–1375 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2013.05.094
Publication
Energy Policy
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0301-4215Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2013.05.094
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The authors acknowledge the ESRC and the law firm Simpson and Marwick for supporting the conference.Items in the St Andrews Research Repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.