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This is the first of two blogs introducing the two new members that have joined the EDC team in 2025. This blog introduces Oliver Brough, the team's Graduate Energy Data Steward. It covers details of his academic background, areas of interest in Energy Research, and how he will contribute to the EDC and help it achieve the goals it strives for.

published: 05/11/2025

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World Preservation Day is the 6th November and on that date the international preservation and curation community come together to celebrate and raise awareness of the profession. This year the theme is Why Preserve and in this blog each EDC team member share their answer to the question posed. In summary it is because energy knowledge has long-term value and impact on the society we all live in. Read more in the full blog.

published: 29/10/2025

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On the 18th September, Catherine Jones and Oliver Brough from the Energy Data Centre headed to Birmingham for the launch of the Career and Skills for Data-driven Research network+. The pair showcased their vital work to make energy data more accessible - with a lightning talk on energy modelling data-sharing challenges and a poster on improving the hashtag#FAIRness of our data portal. It was a delight to meet with colleagues, old and new. We're excited to participate in the network and watch it grow over the next five years!

published: 06/10/2025

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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We pleased to announce improvements to searching, browsing and filtering so that it is easier to find relevant data for use and reuse. Improvements to the visual branding of the different datasets assists in seeing at a glance whether the data is held in the EDC. The information page on each dataset has been updated to make it clearer and the license more obvious. The results can be filtered by a range of options, including the dates, subjects and geographic location. The submission process for both curated datasets and suggestions for linked datasets has been streamlined and simplified. We welcome data from all researchers, you do not need to be a UKERC supported researcher to deposit data with the EDC.

published: 08/11/2023

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