Stephen Thomas is a professor at the

University of Greenwich , mottoeng = "To learn, to do, to achieve" , former_name = Woolwich Polytechnic(1890–1970)Thames Polytechnic(1970–1992) , established = , type = Public university , budget = £214.9 million (2020) , administrative_staff = , chancel ...

Business School, working in the area of energy policy. Before moving to the University of Greenwich in 2001, Thomas worked for twenty-two years at the

University of Sussex , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

Research work

Stephen Thomas is professor at the

Business School, and has been a researcher in the area of energy policy for over twenty-five years. He specialises in the economics and policy of

nuclear power Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity. Nuclear power can be obtained from nuclear fission, nuclear decay and nuclear fusion reactions. Presently, the vast majority of electricity from nuclear power is produced ...

(of which he is a criticThe Myth of the European "Nuclear Renaissance"
), liberalisation and privatisation of the

electricity Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as describ ...

and gas industries, and trade policy on network energy industries. Thomas serves on the editorial boards of several periodicals including ''Energy Policy, Utilities Policy, Energy and Environment'', and ''International Journal of Regulation and Governance''.Professor Steve Thomas
Before moving to the University of Greenwich in 2001, Thomas worked for twenty-two years at the

Science Policy Research Unit Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) is a research centre based at University of Sussex in Falmer, near Brighton, UK. It focuses on long term transformative change, science policy and innovation across different sectors, societies and structure ...

(SPRU) at the

Selected publications

* *with Mycle Schneider and Antony Froggatt (2011).
World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2010-2011: Nuclear Power in a Post-Fukushima World
',

Worldwatch Institute The Worldwatch Institute was a globally focused environmental research organization based in Washington, D.C., founded by Lester R. Brown. Worldwatch was named as one of the top ten sustainable development research organizations by Globescan Su ...

. * with

Mycle Schneider Mycle Schneider (pronounced ''Michael'', /ˈmaɪkəl/) (born 1959 in Cologne) is a Paris-based nuclear energy consultant and anti-nuclear activist. He is the lead author of '' The World Nuclear Industry Status Reports''. He has advised members o ...

Antony Froggatt Antony Froggatt is an energy policy consultant and a senior research fellow at Chatham House. He is co-author of ''The World Nuclear Industry Status Reports''. Biography Antony Froggatt is a senior research fellow in the Energy, Environment and De ...

, and Doug Koplow.
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009
' Commissioned by German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Reactor Safety, August 2009. *''International Perspectives on Energy Policy and the Role of Nuclear Power'', Multi-Science Publishing, 2009. *The grin of the Cheshire cat, ''Energy Policy'', vol 34, 15, 2006, pp 1974–1983. *The British Model in Britain: failing slowly, ''Energy Policy'', vol 34, 5, 2006, pp 583–600. *The UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, ''Energy & Environment'', vol 16, no 6, 2005, pp 923–935. *Evaluating the British Model of electricity deregulation, ''Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics'', vol 75, 3, 2004, pp 367–398.

References

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Research work

Selected publications

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References