Low carbon innovation

Inquiry by the Energy and Climate Change Committee, 15 October 2013 to 15 October 2013. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 2nd Report - Innovate to accumulate: the Government's approach to low carbon innovation (4 August 2014)
• 4th Special Report - Innovate to accumulate: the Government's approach to low carbon innovation: Government Response to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2014–15 (23 October 2014)

Evidence sessions

• 14 January 2014: Rob Saunders, Head of Energy, Technology Strategy Board, David Clarke, Chief Executive Officer, Energy Technologies Institute, Professor Jim Skea, Research Councils UK Energy Strategy Fellow and Professor of Sustainable Energy, Imperial College London, and Professor David Fisk, Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers.
• 26 February 2014: Dr Gordon Edge, RenewableUK, Dr Keith MacLean, Policy and Research Director, SSE, Susanne Baker, Senior Climate and Environment Policy Adviser, EEF, and Will McDowall, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources; Dr Richard Leese, Director, Energy and Climate Change, Mineral Products Association, Joe Corbett, Head, Technology, Mainstream Renewable Power, Friends of the Supergrid, Filomena La Porta, Head of R and D Smart Energy Supply, EDF, and Dennis Hayter, Chair, UK Hydrogen and Fuel Association (at 10.30 am).
• 18 March 2014: Dr Helen Meese, Head of Engineering in Society, Engineering The Future, Professor Jim Watson, Research Director, UK Energy Research Centre, and Professor Paul Stewart, Centre for Low Carbon Futures; Rt Hon Gregory Barker MP, Minister of State for Climate Change, and Dr Paul Hollinshead OBE, Director of Science and Innovation, Department of Energy and Climate Change (at 10.30am).