The Energy and Climate Change Division has submitted a response to the BEIS decarbonising heating in homes enquiry.

The Energy and Climate Change Division will be presenting 3 papers at the Beyond 2020 World Sustainable Conference held between 2-4 November.

The University of Southampton has developed and launched a new Sustainability Strategy to sit alongside the University Travel Plan, Estates Strategy and Biodiversity Policy. The Energy and Climate Change Division (ECCD) team has contributed to the consulting phases and made comments on the approaches to be undertaken within the Strategy. Prof Bahaj is also leading the University Sustainability Implementation Group which arose as a result of the Strategy.

ECCD are working on the LATENT project, bringing together academic and industrial partners to offering thermal preference and acceptance of automated 3rd party control of residential heating systems for grid support.

The Energy and Climate Change Division (ECCD) introduce the newly developed Performance Tracker for Southampton City Council’s Green City Charter (GCC) as part of the GCC first celebration.

ECCD virtual seminar runs every Tuesday lunchtime from 14:00-14:45 on Zoom with a 20 minute talk either from a member of ECCD or an invited speaker.

The 2nd International Conference on Energy and Cities (ICEC 2020), originally planned to be held at the University of Southampton from 1st to 3rd July 2020 is postponed for early next year