This online public seminar explores how the UK uses less energy than almost anyone anticipated 20 years ago, but opportunities to act on this potential were largely missed.
Dr Gaurav Gharde is lead researcher and author of the ‘Decarbonising the UK Revisited’ report, launched at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research’s Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference in September 2025. The 25th-anniversary report looks back at the Tyndall Centre’s own energy scenarios that were published in 2005, and the two decades since of Tyndall Centre energy research.
By comparing the 2005 scenarios of future energy with the energy changes that have happened, Dr Gaurav Gharde and co-authors reveal where foresight was limited, where assumptions proved over-ambitious, and where genuine transformation was underestimated.
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In this public seminar on 11 March 2026, Dr Gharde builds on this work by outlining findings from a 2026 expert workshop report. The workshop brought together ten energy researchers to explore why those gaps emerged and what can be learnt for the future. The report calls for wider range of plausible futures for decarbonisation scenario and reveals five themes for scenario development.
Dr Gharde was joined by discussants Professor Steve Pye from University College London (UCL) and Yuxuan Chua from Warwick University. The event was chaired by Asher Minns, Executive Director of the Tyndall Centre.
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