Energy Focus is the journal of the Parliamentary Group for Energy Studies. Published three times a year – in April, August and December – it features exclusive articles from experts across all areas of the energy industry, interviews with Whitehall insiders, and contributions from those who address our speaker meetings. It also acts as a record of all relevant parliamentary activity and departmental announcements.
An archive of Energy Focus is held by the Energy Institute.
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Articles include:
SNP Energy Policy – Callum McCaig MP
The abolition of DECC – a statement from Angus McNeil MP, Chairman of Select Committee for Energy and Climate Change
The new department – Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy
Obituary – David Jefferies, CBE, CCMI, FREng, FIEE
Articles include
An interview with Dr Lawrence Jones of Edison Electric Institute
Labour Energy Policy – Dr Alan Whitehead MP
Energy Savings Opportunities Scheme – Prof Martin Fry, ESTA and Dr Robert Clay, DECC
Articles include
An interview with Angus McNeil MP Chairman of the Energy & Climate Change Select Committee
Wind works – Matthew Knight, Siemens
The value of flexibility in achieving low carbon energy – Professor Goran Strbac, Imperial College
Articles include:
- General election 2015 – an evidence-based approach? – Jamie Stewart, Editor of European Daily Electricity Markets, ICIS
- CfDs make it even clearer: onshore wind is the way forward – Esbjorn Wilmar, Managing Director, Infinergy Ltd
- Energy policy after the General Election: Priorities for the next Government (March speaker meeting) – Amber Rudd MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
Articles include:
- Balancing the Energy Trilemma – Joan MacNaughton CB, Executive Chair, World Energy Trilemma
- LNG: exposing UK consumers to the highs (and lows) of global markets – Professor Gavin Bridge, Durham University
- An interview with The Rt Hon Matthew Hancock MP
Articles include:
- Solar independence: Subsidy-free by 2020 – Paul Barwell, Chief Executive of the Solar Trade Association
- UK solar will still shine brightly in a CfD world – Jamie Richards, Head of Infrastructure at the Foresight Group
- An interview with Greg Barker MP
Articles include:
- Keeping the Lights On – Andrew Bainbridge, Major Energy Users Council
- A level playing field in EU energy costs – Tim Morris, Tata Steel
- Paper: Unfolding the future – David Workman, The Confederation of Paper Industries
Articles include:
- An interview with the Mark Simmonds MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- The Western United States: Energy breadbasket for America – Governor Gary R. Herbert, State of Utah, US
- The German Energiewende in uncertain times – Dr Joachim Hein
Articles include:
- An interview with the Rt Hon. Michael Fallon MP, Minister of State for Business and Enterprise and Minister of State for Energy
- Electricity from biomass: seeing the wood for the trees – Dorothy Thompson, Chief Executive at Drax
- Green Technology: Securing our energy future – David Handley, Chief Economist at RES
Articles include:
- An interview with Professor David Mackay, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department for Energy and Climate Change
- Abandoning coal is a high-risk strategy for a clean energy future – Milton Catelin, Chief Executive at the World Coal Association
- Coal’s comeback is real – but not as we knew it – Tony Lodge, Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies
