Energy Research

As countries strive to decarbonise and adapt to climate change, the challenge is no longer only about setting targets. It is about implementation – building resilient industrial value chains, mobilising finance, and ensuring the transition is just and inclusive. But effective implementation requires rigorous assessment, clarifying choices, revealing impacts and guiding action.

Our energy research is informed by extensive experience analysing and modelling low-carbon energy systems across national laboratories and international organisations. This experience shows that in a sector evolving at speed, decisions cannot wait for perfect information – they require rapid, multidimensional assessments accounting for emerging technologies, new practices, and early market signals.

We cover renewable and enabling technologies – such as battery storage – alongside advanced nuclear designs and key processes and applications including power conversion, heating, cooling, desalination and data centres. Our work examines costs, performance and wider economic implications from multiple perspectives – from project developers to public-sector decision-makers – to deliver insights that are both technically robust and strategically relevant.

Through this combination of analytical depth, technical breadth and global awareness, our research supports evidence-based policies and strategies that help countries and organisations stay ahead of change in a rapidly evolving energy landscape.