Scheme

Energy & Environment Scheme

What is the UK's energy makeup and where do future energy usage and prices, water quality, biodiversity, environmental impact and net zero all overlap?

How do we keep the lights on, our water clean, our industries fuelled whilst supporting our world class biodiversity impacted by achanging climate.

Scheme Lead

Jamie Anderson

CEO, Parliamentary Knowledge Foundation

Founder of PKF and lead for the Frontline Services Scheme.

Dates

2024–2026

Advisory Committee

Will Young

Juliet Rose

Jonathan Hoare

Jessica Skedd

Jayinder Khaneka

Dan Wells

Charlie Gold

Dr Tony Rooke

Cathy Sprent

Jennifer Lockett

Nick Bridge

Stuart Crooks

Key Partners

Ofgem

Howden

Bloomberg

Accenture

Wellcome Trust

HSBC

National Trust

Diddly Squat Farm

Wildfarmed

NHS Digital

Protect Our Winters (POW)

Foresight Group

Met Office

Cabinet Office

Thames Water

Vattenfall

Natural Resources Wales

Anthropic

Wates Group

TheCityUK

National Parks

Mastercard

Taunton College

Anglian Water

Zoological Society of London

Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew

Natural History Museum

National Oceanography Centre

UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Plymouth Marine Laboratory

The Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection

Scania

Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag

National Gid

Viking Link

Portsmouth Water

DS Smith

The Eden Project

OFGEM (Office of Gas and Electricity Markets)

National Grid

Spains Hall Estate

Karve International

National College for Nuclear

Hinkley Point C

EDF Energy

Modules

Modules within this Scheme

MPs must complete a minimum percentage of modules to graduate from the Scheme.
After each completed module, PKF publishes a short summary report outlining key insights, evidence, and outcomes. These case studies help partners, Parliamentarians, and stakeholders understand the impact of each visit.

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Oceans and Water

The UK’s climate resilience, food systems and maritime economy depend on healthy seas, yet the science informing ocean policy is rarely visible. This proposed module will work with the National Oceanography Centre to explore marine monitoring, coastal risk, biodiversity and the blue economy.

Land Use at the Eden Project: Biodiversity, Climate and Resilience

The Eden Project is an example of what can be done with post-industrial sites and where it is leading the UK with its work on biodiversity, land use and agricultural research.

South West England

UK Research and Technological Excellence

UK research on weather, oceans and biodiversity underpins major policy decisions across government, from flood defence to fisheries to climate adaptation.

National Security Centre

National Security Centre: Energy Resilience

Energy, water, food and digital systems are all serious national security concerns, with state actors, cyber attacks and climate shocks treated as the same problem set.

World-Class UK Research: Behind the Science at the Natural History Museum

The cohort will go behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum and Kew Gardens to see the institutions giving the country a global lead.

International Interconnector (Viking Link)

Interconnectors are a structural part of the UK's power grid, importing cheap power when wind is low and exporting it when wind generation creates a surplus.

The Cost of Energy

With UK energy prices among the highest in Europe and industrial users especially exposed, understanding the numbers behind the energy crisis has never been more important.

Havant Thicket; Thames Tideway

Water as a Utility

The UK has not built a major reservoir in a generation, water supply is now the binding constraint on housing and industrial growth in much of the South, and public trust in the sector is at a low.

Energy Crisis War Game

Energy resilience plans rarely get tested until supply tightens, and the decisions ministers and regulators face in that window are both political and technical, under immense time pressure.

The Grid and Utilities

Grid and water capacity is now the single biggest constraint on new homes, new factories and new clean power, with connection queues running into the 2030s and ageing infrastructure under growing strain.

Offshore Wind and Solar

Offshore renewables are critical to the energy transition. The UK has built a world-leading position that is now under pressure from grid delays, supply chains and cost.

Brecon Beacons/Pembrokeshire

National Parks and Outdoor Access

National parks cover a tenth of England and Wales and depend on a thin layer of rangers and volunteers to stay open, maintain access, manage habitat and host millions of visitors a year.

Sizewell or Hinkley

The Future of Energy and Energy Jobs

With the energy workforce hoping to almost double by 2030, specific skills and training is required to ensure the industry can flourish.

Land Use: Agriculture and Food Security

Land use, farming and food security are now one shared question for rural Britain, with farmers asked to deliver food, energy, biodiversity and decarbonisation on the same land.

Portsmouth, Hampshire

Havant Thickett Reservoir

Seeing firsthand how a major national water infrastructure project is being delivered and to understand the balance between environmental stewardship and long-term water security

World Oceans Day Symposium

This session on World Oceans Day brings together leading scientific institutions to help Members understand the policy levers, governance challenges, and constituency-level impacts across the catchment-to-coast system.

Biodiversity Symposium

A day behind the scenes of the Natural History Museum focused on the biodiversity crisis and what it means for policy, constituencies, and delivery.

South West England

Environmental Research

A residential visit to see some of the world's leading marine and biodiversity research at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory and The Eden Project.

Sweden Energy Visit

Seeing the manufacturing centre in Lund where most of the worlds interconnectors are designed and built. Also visiting the largest producer of heat pumps in the world and the Swedish parliament.

Bicker, Lincolnshire

Viking Link Interconnector

Tour of the Viking Link interconnector on the East Coast UK, looking at cross country energy transmission and the UK's connection to European energy markets.

Visit to paper recycling facility demonstrating the circular economy from collection through to recycled product manufacturing.

Hinkley Point C, Somerset

Hinkley Point C Visit

Day visit to Hinkley Point C, exploring the construction of the UK's first new nuclear power station in a generation and its role in delivering low-carbon energy for 6 million homes.

The London School of Economics

Energy Grid Symposium

Half-day symposium examining energy grid transformation in the UK, exploring diverse energy sources, stakeholder perspectives, and the challenges and opportunities of transitioning national energy infrastructure.

Spains Hall Estate

Spains Hall Estate Visit

Day experience exploring natural flood management techniques, examining beaver reintegration, natural debris dams, and reforestation as sustainable solutions to flooding and drought challenges across the country.

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