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

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

updated: 01/04/2025

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

updated: 22/05/2025