Renewable Energy Foundation

1. Gordon Hughes Evidence to NI Public Accounts Committee 22 April 2021
(Attached to Article: Public Accounts Committee Evidence on the Economics of Small-Scale wind generation in NI)

Gordon Hughes Evidence to NI Public Accounts Committee 22 April 2021 (Filename: PACNIEvidence.pdf)  ...

2. Gordon Hughes REF webinar text 4 Nov 2020
(Attached to Article: Wind Power Economics – Rhetoric and Reality)

Gordon Hughes REF webinar text 4 Nov 2020 (Filename: Gordon Hughes - REF Wind Economics webinar.pdf) | Description:GH REF Wind Economics webinar 4 Nov 2020 ...

3. Performance of Wind Farms in the UK and Denmark
(Attached to Article: Analysis of Wind Farm Performance in UK and Denmark)

Performance of Wind Farms in the UK and Denmark (Filename: ref.hughes.19.12.12.pdf)  ...

4. UK Renewable Electricity Subsidy Totals: 2002 to the Present Day
(REF Blog Section/REF Blog)

... energy deployment and generation. Both industry and government claim that this is the case. However, as is shown conclusively in work conducted for Renewable Energy Foundation by Professor Gordon Hughes, ...

5. New REF Research Report on Increasing Variability in Electricity Market Prices
(REF Blog Section/REF Blog)

REF is today (23 January 2025) publishing a study by Professor Gordon Hughes which reveals that the increasing share of intermittent and subsidised renewable generation has increased electricity price ...

6. Variability in Electricity Market Prices
(Foundation Section/Publications)

A new report on the variability in electricity market prices linked to increasing reliance on solar and wind generation by Professor Gordon Hughes, School of Economics, University of Edinburgh is published ...

7. The Economic Prospects for Solar Generation in the UK are Poor
(Foundation Section/Press Releases)

Renewable Energy Foundation is today publishing a substantial study of the economics of large-scale solar in the United Kingdom. The author, Professor Hughes of the University of Edinburgh, and a former ...

8. Utility Scale Solar PV Costs
(Foundation Section/Publications)

A new report on the costs of utility scale solar generation by Professor Gordon Hughes, School of Economics, University of Edinburgh is published today by the Renewable Energy Foundation. The Economics ...

9. The Economics of Utility-Scale Solar Generation: Summary
(REF Blog Section/REF Blog)

Renewable Energy Foundation has published two substantial studies of wind farm economics by Professor Hughes, the latest of which appeared in 2020. The present study applies the same principles to the ...

10. Offshore Wind Subsidies per MWh Generated Continue to Rise
(REF Blog Section/REF Blog)

... tank Policy Exchange as remarking that “the cost of offshore wind power had fallen steeply in recent years”. As work by Professor Gordon Hughes has shown, the capital and operating costs of offshore ...

11. Costs, Performance and Investment Returns for Wind Power Presentation
(REF Blog Section/REF Blog)

There is ongoing interest in Professor Gordon Hughes’ empirical work on the economics of wind power, with occasional requests for talks and summaries, and updates and recent reflections. The attached paper ...

12. Public Accounts Committee Evidence on the Economics of Small-Scale wind generation in NI
(REF Blog Section/REF Blog)

On the 10th of April this year Professor Gordon Hughes of the University of Edinburgh submitted a paper on the economics of small-scale wind generation in Northern Ireland as formal evidence to the "Inquiry ...

13. The reality of relying upon renewable power: a personal view
(REF Blog Section/REF Blog)

Professor Gordon Hughes has written the following blog describing his experience of sourcing reliable energy supplies to power a remote rural broadband network in Scotland. I have written a number of ...

14. The Shetland Islands: Renewables and Corporate Interests
(REF Blog Section/REF Blog)

... In this article, co-authored with Professor Gordon Hughes of Edinburgh University, REF examines the case of the Viking Energy wind farm in the Shetlands and more broadly that of Scotland itself. For ...

15. Wind Power Costs in the UK and Denmark
(Foundation Section/Publications)

Two new reports on the costs of wind power in the UK and Denmark by Professor Gordon Hughes, School of Economics, University of Edinburgh are published today by the Renewable Energy Foundation. Wind ...

16. Wind Power Economics – Rhetoric and Reality
(REF Blog Section/REF Blog)

The following is the text accompanying the talk given by Professor Gordon Hughes, School of Economics, University of Edinburgh on 4 November 2020 to launch his two new reports for REF on: Wind Power ...

17. Wind Power Economics Webinar
(REF Blog Section/REF Blog)

... Gordon Hughes of the School of Economics at the University of Edinburgh. This study, which will be published on November 4th 2020, uses a unique database on the actual costs of building and operating more ...

18. Forthcoming Report on Wind Power Economics: Rhetoric and Reality
(REF Blog Section/REF Blog)

The Sunday Telegraph has today reported on REF’s forthcoming major new analysis by Professor Gordon Hughes, under the title Wind Power Economics: Rhetoric and Reality. The study contains two volumes, ...

19. Extreme Subsidies to Small Wind Farms in Northern Ireland: A Bureaucratic Oversight?
(REF Blog Section/REF Blog)

REF will shortly publish major new analysis by Professor Gordon Hughes, under the title Wind Power Economics: Rhetoric and Reality. The study contains two volumes, one on the Performance of Wind Power ...

20. REF Comment on Staffell and Green
(REF Blog Section/REF Blog)

In December 2012 REF published Professor Gordon Hughes’ paper The Performance of Wind Farms in the United Kingdom and Denmark. This seminal paper used advanced but standard statistical techniques to ...