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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
The P114 dataset supplied by Elexon has accurate data on the balancing and settling of the UK electricity market. The Energy Data Centre gives access to the data to a group of universities who have signed an agreement. Every quarter the EDC team download and process the data and this has been done to include October, November and December 2024
published: 31/03/2025
updated: 02/04/2025
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
The P114 dataset supplied by Elexon has accurate data on the balancing and settling of the UK electricity market. The Energy Data Centre gives access to the data to a group of universities who have signed an agreement. Every quarter the EDC team download and process the data and this has been done to include July, August and September 2024
published: 19/12/2024
The Faraday Institution is the UK's independent institute for electrochemical energy storage research, skills development, market analysis, and early-stage commercialisation. It produces publications from insights into specific topics to research reports. The Energy Data Centre is now collecting this content to increase the discoverability of it and to enhance the EDC's collection of grey literature
published: 21/11/2024
The Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS) ran from 2018 to 2023. Their research demonstrated how reductions in energy use are essential for the transition to a fair, zero-carbon society. With agreement from the CREDS team, the EDC have curated the publications and gathered together information on CREDS outputs into a new Collection to aid in the discovery of the outputs of this research Centre.
published: 15/08/2024
The P114 dataset supplied by Elexon has accurate data on the balancing and settling of the UK electricity market. The Energy Data Centre gives access to the data to a group of universities who have signed an agreement. Every quarter the EDC team download and process the data and this has been done in July for data up to 30/06/2024.
published: 01/08/2024
The EDC publication search and browse functionality has been updated and enhanced to give a better user experience. Publications from different parts of the system have been brought together to form a single discovery service which gives access to over 1600 reports, consultation responses and other material from the UK Energy Research Centre, the Energy Technologies Institute and other projects. Publications can be browsed by energy category, subject and document type and there is comprehensive search functionality. Results can be filtered by these categories and dates.
published: 17/07/2024
A recent CREDS/ UKERC Data Sharing Workshop, gathered system stakeholders together to discuss how to improve data sharing in the energy research community. Publishers, data managers, research centre managers, funders and researchers were invited to the expert workshop to reflect on the lessons learned by CREDS and UKERC, add their own lessons and make a series of recommendations. The final report and the briefing note are now available for downloading.
published: 13/12/2023
Access to a new interactive data visualisation available from our Visualisations tab. The Centre for Integrated Renewable Energy Generation and Supply (CIREGS) at Cardiff Universitys School of Engineering was established in 2008 as a multidisciplinary engineering research group with international expertise in the supply, transmission and demand of energy and as a result of recent academic and industry projects have developed methodology for estimating spatial and temporal heat demand and energy consumption for heating in England & Wales, along with a database that includes heat demand time series for Lower layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs) across England & Wales.
published: 22/11/2023
