The Green Edge Reports Roundup, March-23: AUXILIARY
An auxiliary list of reports and other publications we've been reading this month
Our reading list was so long this month that we’ve included this auxiliary list, starting with a complete section on Green Sectors.
Sectors
We’ve been delving into reports and studies to help us track and understand what’s happening across various sectors. The ones listed below are the ones we found most useful on the skills front, helping to put UK progress in context.
Energy
Decarbonising the Power Sector
National Audit Office, March 2023.
Retaining the UK’s leadership in renewables
Renewable UK, March 2023
State-Level Employment Projects for Four Clean Energy Technologies in 2025 and 2030
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, March 2022
Covers: Solar (PV), wind (land based), battery storage (grid connected), energy efficiency. Appendix D lists the key reference studies.
Investment for a well-adapted UK
The Climate Change Committee, January 2023
Delivering a reliable decarbonised power system
The Climate Change Committee, March 2023
A Wholesale Transformation in Evaluating Proposals for Electricity Market Reform
Common-wealth, March 2023
Carbon capture, utilisation, and storage: Picking the high-hanging fruits of CO2 mitigation
State of Green, Denmark, November 2022
Wind Energy, Driving the Global Market
State of Green, 2021
How Britain’s Energy System Works – and Why it Needs an Overhaul
Common-wealth, January 2023
The Role of Hydrogen in a Net Zero Energy System
Royal Academy of Engineering / National Engineering Policy Centre, September 2022
Energy Storage
Intelligence in Battery Sector 2019-2023
Alliance for Batteries Technology, Training and Skills (ALBATTS), Release 1, Nov 2020
Sector Skills Intelligence and Strategy for the European Battery Sector
Alliance for Batteries Technology, Training and Skills (ALBATTS), Jan 2023
Covers occupations, skills and competences.
Electricity Storage and Renewables: Costs and Markets to 2030
International Renewable Energy Agency, October 2017
Steel
Europe Steels the deal: UK falls even further behind in the race to clean steel
Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, March 2023
Chemicals
A new formula: Cutting the UK chemical industry’s climate impact
Green Alliance, March 2023
Transport
Fuelling the future: Motive power and connectivity
House of Commons Transport Committee, HC 159, February 2023
Electrification of the Army’s Light Combat Vehicle Fleet: Proceedings of a Workshop.
National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicines, February 2023
Net Zero Aviation Fuels: Resource Requirements and Environmental Impacts.
The Royal Society, February 2023
Impacts of intelligent transportation systems on energy conservation and emission reduction of transport systems: a comprehensive review
Green Technologies and Sustainability, Vol 1, No 1, January 2023
Construction
Circular Construction. Building for a greener UK economy
Green Alliance, March 2023
Environment
Environment Agency. Chief Scientist’s Annual Review
Environment Agency, March 2023
Manufacturing
Strategic Investment Plan 2023-25
Digital Manufacturing Institute, USA, February 2023
See in particular pps 36-38 and the road map on p 81 for workforce and skills.
Our auxiliary reading list for other sections
Skills
Twin Tracking: Accelerating toward a Net Zero Skilled Economy
NOCN, March 2023
Link
Levelling-up and Regional Development
Investment Zones: Policy Offer
HM Treasury and Dept for Levelling-up, Housing and Communities, March 2023
Freeports: what are they? What do we know? And, what will we know?
Institute for Fiscal Studies, IFS Report R251, March 2023
Tackling the UK’s Regional Economic Inequality: Binding Constraints and Avenues for Policy Intervention
Harvard Kennedy School/MIT Sloan, M-RCBG Associate Working Paper Series No 198, March 2023
Capital Losses: The role of London in the UK’s productivity puzzle
Centre for Cities, March 2023
Levelling-up Farming: Net zero and farm profitability
Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, August 2022
At the frontier: The geography of the UK’s new economy
Centre for Cities, December 2022
Local Growth Funds
House of Commons Library, No. CBP 9460
Cluster Sequencing for Carbon Capture Usage and Storage Deployment: Phase 2
Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, Nov 2021
Advice Report: The Path to a Net Zero Northern Ireland
The Climate Change Committee, March 2023
Shaping UK Land Use: Priorities for food, nature and climate
Green Alliance, January 2023
Labour Market
Skills and UK Productivity. Estimating the contribution of educational attainment to productivity growth.
Department for Education, Feb 2023
The Labour Market of Tomorrow: Projections from the Model of Occupations, Skills, and Technology (MOST)
Conference Board of Canada, October 2022
Beyond Blue and White Collar: A Skills-Based Approach to Canadian Job Groupings
Conference Board of Canada: August 2022
Cost Barriers to Learning at Level 3
Department for Education, Research Report, March 2023
Enhancing the development impact of the UK’s immigration pathways
Center for Global Development and UN IOM, CGD Policy Paper No 258, April 2022
Ready for the Future: A Review of Careers Education in England 2021/22
The Careers and Enterprise Company, 2023
Developing Related Occupations for the O*NET Program
National Centre for O*NET Development, April 2022
Workforce of the Future. The Competing Forces Shaping 2030
PWC, 2018
EU Talent Pool
EU DG Home/C2, 2023
Education
Black Mountain College
Black Mountain College, Wales, 2023
Net Zero Policy
The Net Zero Industry Act and the European Hydrogen Bank
EC, March 2023
Green Economy Bulletin: Trends, Developments and Data
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, November 2022