On Wednesday 13th February, PRASEG Chairman, James Heappey MP, hosted a roundtable breakfast meeting on the role of interconnectors in the GB energy system and the implications of Brexit on prospects for further integration of the GB energy system with continental Europe. Key note speaker for the meeting was Jon Butterworth MBE, President and COO for Global Transmission at National Grid Ventures. In total, 9 other parliamentarians from the House of Commons and House of Lords joined the...

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14:00 - 16:00, Tuesday 22nd January 2019  UPDATED: THIS EVENT WILL NOW TAKE PLACE IN COMMITTEE ROOM 18 IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. PLEASE ENTER VIA THE CROMWELL GREEN ENTRANCE. Since 2015, development of new onshore wind projects in the UK has been at a stand-still. Strict planning policy conditions and heavily constrained access to government subsidy schemes have effectively removed the route-to-market for new projects. As we head into 2019 however, there are indications that government policy on...

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10:00 - 11:30, Tuesday 22nd January 2019  Committee Room 8, House of Commons Decarbonisation of the heating sector is widely considered to be one of the principal challenges facing the UK over the next decade. The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has called on the Government to commit to developing a low carbon heat strategy within three years as fundamental decisions about the future of the UK energy system need to be taken. Whilst bioenergy, hydrogen and direct electrification all offer...

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09:00 - 10:00, Tuesday 11th DecemberCommittee Room 5 - House of Commons On 15th November 2018, the General Court of the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) annulled the European Commission’s State aid approval for the UK Capacity Market, ruling in favour of the complainant, Tempus Energy. The ruling means the Capacity Market enters a standstill period, which prevents the UK Government from holding any capacity auctions, making any capacity payments under existing agreements, or...

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Monday 26th November, 16:00 - 17:30 Committee Room 17, House of Commons On 26th November 2008 the Climate Change Act was passed into UK law. To mark the 10th anniversary of the Act, PRASEG, together with the All Party Group for Intelligent Energy hoted a celebratory event, to explore how communities and local authorities can contribute towards the next phase of action as the UK sets itself on a 1.5 Degrees pathway. In 2012, a study by the CCC highlighted that there was “no requirement for...

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Monday 19th November, 14:00 - 16:00Committee Room 19, House of Commons, Palace of Westminster UPDATE - This event has now been moved from the Jubilee Room and will now take place in Committee Room 19. As Britain moves to a smarter, more flexible energy system, new technologies can be used to help improve energy efficiency and lower energy costs for consumers. Smarter housing could also play a big role in balancing our energy system and helping to reduce energy demand and fuel poverty. New...

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On Tuesday 13th November, PRASEG collaborated with the All Party Parliamentary Group on Carbon Capture and Storage (APPG CCS) to convene a discussion on the future of the UK energy system and how it can be made 'net zero' and deliver negative emissions by 2050. Chaired by Alex Cunningham MP and with participation from Anna Turley MP, David Duguid MP and Peter Aldous MP, attendees heard from Karl Smyth (Head of Policy and Government Relations, Drax) and Prof Gideon Henderson (Professor of Earth...

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Zero Carbon Heat & the ConsumerTuesday 26th June, 15.00-17.001 Parliament Street, SW1A 2LW, Room C Since domestic heat accounts for over 40% of UK energy consumption and nearly a quarter of all carbon emissions, Government recognises that greater focus is needed on transforming the UK’s heat supply. With household heat pumps and biomass boilers, area-wide district heating systems, and the injection of ‘cleaner gas’ supplies all being considered, consumer needs must be best served by policy...

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Monday 21 May,16:00-17:30,House of Commons Committee Rm 12 Steve Waygood is Chief responsible Investment Officer at Aviva. He is founder of the Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Coalition, and a leading member of Government's Green Finance Taskforce.

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Tuesday 16 January 2018, 4-6pm, House of Commons, Terrace Pavilion The PRASEG New Year Reception is a chance to reflect on the marked changes in the political landscape of the past year, and the challenges and opportunities for 2017as well as to meet some of those who will shape the political agenda in the year ahead. Our Reception is being kindly supported by Viridor, a company investing over £1.2 billion in the development of a network of advanced energy recovery facilities across the UK to...

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Tuesday 16 January 2018, 2-3:30pm, House of Commons, Committee Rm 19 The Government has a commitment to move towards a ‘zero waste economy’ where resources are fully valued financially and environmentally.  These obligations stand beside ambitious targets for renewable energy – for both electricity and heat. The challenge for Parliament is to sustainably link these policy goals. This PRASEG seminar will address these key challenges. Any waste sent to landfill creates costs for consumers and...

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Monday 11 December 2017, 6-7:30pm, House of Commons, Committee Rm 19 As the UK transitions to a more de-centralised and low-carbon economy, the current regulatory arrangements that govern energy markets look increasingly out-of-date. An important debate has emerged from this - how far does the legislative remit of regulators, such as Ofgem, enable them to make decisions that match goals set by the UK’s Climate Change Act and its carbon budgets? With start of this parliament the ‘Clean Growth...

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Tuesday 24 October 2017, 9-11am, House of Commons, Committee Rm 15 Decarbonising heat is one of the biggest challenges facing future UK energy policy. The Committee on Climate Change has demonstrated that finding a credible pathway to near- zero carbon heat by 2050 is crucial if we are to meet our emissions reduction targets under the Paris agreement. While greenhouse gas emissions have halved in the power sector since 1990, there has been little progress to date in cutting the 20% of UK...

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Monday 16 October 2017, 4-6pm, House of Commons, Strangers Dining Room A parliamentary reception, co-hosted by PRASEG, FPEEG (the Fuel Poverty APPG), and APPGIE (the Intelligent Energy APPG). This event marked the launch of an Energy Efficiency Infrastructure Group launch of their report: Affordable Warmth, Clean Growth. This report sets out an action plan for a comprehensive buildings and energy infrastructure programme. Reception Host: Antoinette Sandbach MP Speakers: Matthew Bell, Director...

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Tories: Tuesday 3 Oct, 15.45-17.15, Lancaster, Midland Hotel, Manchester ‘Revitalising regional economies: the energy industry’s role’

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Labour: Tuesday 26 Sept, 12.45-14.00, Hall 7 – Tweed, Hilton Brighton Metropole ‘Decentralised energy: driving investment in local energy systems’

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Lib Dems: Tuesday 19 Sept 13.00-14.00, Bayview 1, Bournemouth International Centre ‘Securing investment in a clean, affordable energy system’

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Wednesday 12 October, 1-3pm, House of Commons, Committee Room 12 The rollout of smart meters across homes in the UK, coupled with the announcement from Ofgem of half hourly settlement for domestic electricity use by 2017, provides a new landscape in which innovative new technologies can start to be scaled up to impact the way consumers, business and the public sector engage with energy. Smart energy has the potential to reduce consumer bills, give consumers greater choice about where their...

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Date: 08 June 2016, Time: 10:00am- 12:00pmLocation: Committee Room 7, House of Commons Transport accounts for around a quarter of UK greenhouse gas emissions and significantly affects roadside air quality. Decarbonising transport by promoting low carbon vehicles, and attracting investment and uptake in innovative new technologies is essential in making our cities cleaner, greener and smarter.

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Date: Monday 6 June, Time: 17.30- 19.00Location: Committee Room 16 “We are in the midst of nothing less than a revolution in the provision of our energy.”Steve Holliday, Chief Executive, National Grid writing in The Daily Telegraph.

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Decentralised & Devolved: Transforming UK EnergyWednesday 6th July, 13.30-17.30 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), 61 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2ET PRASEG's annual conference is a key event on the energy policy calendar bringing together senior players across the sustainable energy sector.

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*** Generation 2020: Our Energy Future *** Wednesday 10th July - 14:00 - 17:00 (followed by a networking drinks reception) Attlee Suite, Portculis House We are excited to announce that the 2019 PRASEG Annual Conference will be taking place this year on Wednesday 10th July in the Attlee Suite of Portculis House. Running from 2pm through to 5pm, and followed by a drinks reception, the PRASEG conference is a key event on the energy policy calendar, which brings together senior players across the...

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EUFORES Parliamentary Workshop -”Can the EU help to make the UK’s energy cleaner, affordable and secure?” 1st March 2016 - Organised in association with the All Party Parliamentary Renewable & Sustainable Energy Group (PRASEG), The European Forum for Renewable Energy Sources (EUFORES) held a workshop on energy efficiency and renewable energy on the 1 March 2016, 11:00hrs – 15:00hrs, Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, Westminster, London.

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23rd February 2016 - With the recent publication of the Committee on Climate Change’s statutory proposal for the UK’s 5th Carbon Budget, PRASEG invited the Committee on Climate Change to run a Parliamentary Briefing that will help inform Parliaments vote on the budget. The Climate Change Act 2008 requires the Government to vote on this by June this year.

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10th February 2016 - In December 2015, at the COP 21 Climate Conference in Paris, a landmark agreement was reached. The Paris Agreement and accompanying COP decision have the long term goal of limiting global temperature increase ‘well below’ 2°c, urging efforts to hold the increase to 1.5°c.

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03 December 2015 - The successful achievement of the UK’s carbon targets will depend upon the decarbonisation of our energy system. As an increasing range of technology choices are now becoming available across the low carbon sector, there is now a broad spectrum of energy system scenarios that could be envisaged, progress of which will depend to a great extent on the outcome of policy choices and investor actions over this Parliament.

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3 November 2015 - Gas will continue to play a major role as a bridging fuel in the transition to a more secure, cleaner and affordable energy mix and contributing to help meet the UK’s climate change commitments. Creating a lower carbon future is anticipated to lead to a significant transformation to our energy networks, bringing both opportunities and challenges for policy makers and industry.

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14 July 2015 - The PRASEG annual conference once again brought together key decision makers in the sustainable energy industry to review current and forthcoming policy priorities.

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Tuesday 3rd March2015  - The last decade has seen the UK automotive industry make a gradual, but significant shift to low carbon vehicles. This has been driven by changes in policy at both the UK and EU level including targets set out in the UK Carbon Plan to provide infrastructure to support the shift to low carbon vehicles. Technological advancements have also led to a proliferation of choice and better efficiency of low carbon vehicles, further supporting a rise in public demand.

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3rd February 2015 - Biomass for heating has the potential to play a huge role in meeting decarbonisation targets in the UK beyond the UK’s 2020 renewables target and yet the UK Government’s existing bioenergy and heat strategy portrays a limited role.

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Sustainability hub Labour Party conference reception 2014 sponsored by Mitsubishi Electric  

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Tuesday 15 July 2014, 14:00 – 15:30, Committee Room 17, House of Commons  

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Tuesday 4th February 2014; 11:00 – 12:30, Committee Room 6, House of Commons, Speakers Chair: Joan Walley MP Luke Warren, CEO, The Carbon Capture & Storage Association (CCSA) Paul Nowak, Deputy General Secretary, TUC David Kennedy, Chief Executive, Committee on Climate Change (invited) Michael Gibbons, OBE, co-chair of the Government CCS Development Forum Questions &...

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Wednesday 26th February 2014, 16:00 - 18:00, Committee Room 9 Click on a speaker's name to hear audio Speakers: Alan Whitehead MP - introduction Jeremy Bungey, Head of Community Energy at E.ON Stephen Brooks, Investment Director at the Heat Network Delivery Unit (HNDU) David Wickersham, Technical Adviser, CityWest Homes Ltd. Tim Rotheray, Director at Combined Heat and Power Association (CHPA) Lord Teverson, Liberal Democrat Energy and Climate Change spokesperson, House of Lords Q&A...

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PRASEG & FPEEG Seminar: The Energy Company Obligation – What is the best way forward? Monday 7 April 2014, 15.30 – 17.30, Committee Room 12, House of Commons Click on a speaker's name to hear audio Speakers: Introduction from the Chair, Kelvin Hopkins MP Charles Phillips, Department of Energy and Climate Change Andrew Warren, Association for the Conservation of Energy Emma Pinchbeck, Sustainable Energy Association Nigel Dewbery, E.ON Peter Smith, National Energy Action Alan Whitehead MP,...

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Monday 7 April 2014, 15.30 – 17.30, Committee Room 12, House of Commons Audio recording available  

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Tuesday 13th May 2014, 12:15 – 15:00, Terrace Pavilion, House of Commons PRASEG are proudly hosting in association with the Electricity Storage Network this reception entitled, ‘Electricity Storage in the Future Vision for a Lower Cost Sustainable Energy System’ sponsored by RES, Poyry, S&C Electric, Highview Power and Parker Energy Grid Tie. This reception will look at the important future role for Electricity Storage in our electricity system and the benefits it can...

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