The Energy Data Centre is a hub for publicly funded energy research in the UK. It holds information on energy projects, publications and gives access to research datasets.
In November 2024, staff from 20 UK energy research centres met for the Cross-consortium Engagement Meeting (CCEM). It enables UK's energy research consortia and funding councils to strengthen connections, collaborate on projects and discuss topics of interest. This meeting focussed on managing research data: why it matters, the challenges, and what is being done to make data more accessible, usable and available for the long-term. This demonstrates the commitment to share and improve practice in this area. In this blog, we explore the outcomes and how centres like the Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC) and the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC), who co-lead the CCEM, can improve their data management for their own researchers and beyond.
published: 06/05/2025
In March we launched the updated set of brief guides on a selection of data management topics. These are introductory guides to a topic and fit on a piece of A4 paper. - Data Management Checklist - Submitting data to the EDC - Data behind a publication - Research software: citation and credit - FAIR Data
published: 31/03/2025
updated: 01/04/2025
Research data is an important outcome of research. Making it accessible to everyone in a way that can be reused helps the whole research community to reproduce research. Making research data available, alongside journal articles and research software, is crucial to maximising our impact, the value of our work, and public investment. UKERC has long believed in the principles of proactive data management to benefit its researchers and the wider energy research community.. At The Energy Data Centre (EDC), the team created and monitored the planning process, giving specialist advice when requested. This blog post reviews the progress the EDC has made, what data is now available and from where.
published: 06/03/2025
updated: 22/05/2025
Data records managed and curated by the EDC
Individual data records managed and held elsewhere
Data collections managed and held elsewhere
Future spatiotemporal residential cooling demand of GB
SmartMeter Energy Consumption Data in London Households
Local Energy Systems in Great Britain: Policy Instrument Database, 2010-2022
Local Energy Systems: Institutional Maps of Great Britain, 2022
Interviews With Observers of and Participants in Dutch and UK Heat Transition Governance, 2021-2022
Clean energy demonstrator projects database
The Determinants of Double Energy Vulnerability: A Geospatial Analysis, 2011-2024
Fuel and Transport Poverty in the UK Energy Transition, 2022
Expectations for Automated Vehicles, 2018-2023
Brexit, Energy, and Climate Change - Survey Results -2021
Enabling smart local energy systems - Innovate UK insights and outcomes resource
Project records managed and classified by the EDC
Digitally enabled sustainable metals recycling for circular economies - SUMER
Integrated Waveform and Intelligence (IWAI): Physical Layer Solutions to Sustainable 6G
Molecule-based Magneto/electro/mechano-Calorics
NanoMan: Self-Optimising Nanoscale Manufacturing Platforms for Achieving Multiscale Precision
Living-Light: Single Fluorescent Protein based Compact Low-Threshold Bio-Lasers
Publications managed and curated by the EDC
Publications managed and held elsewhere
UKERC Transport Evidence Compendium
Reviewing the Energy Semantic Artefacts Landscape
Developing a specification for a FAIR-enabled API for the Energy Data Centre
UKERC DINI Energy Modelling Workshop Report
Developing an Energy Security Monitoring Framework Fit for UK Net Zero
UKERC Synthesis Report: Decarbonising Residential Heating
Locational Signals in a Reformed National Market: A review of options