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Membership
Career development & professional registration-
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Members and registered users
Enhance your career
Professional registration recognises your competence, commitment, skills and experience.
The IET provides guidance and support to enable members to undertake planned and structured Initial Professional Development (IPD) and Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
Professional development courses designed to help individuals and organisations reach and stay at the leading edge of engineering and technology.
The IET Awards reward and celebrate individual excellence, innovation and ambition (engineering scholarships).
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Resources
Library, archives, bookshop, publications & factfiles-
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E&T Jobs
Engineering & Technology Jobs
Search today for your next engineering role on Engineering & Technology Jobs, the job board hosted by the IET.
Standards
IET Standards
IET Standards publishes authoritative standards, codes of practice and guidance materials for professional engineers and other key stakeholders, using its expertise to achieve consensus on best practice in emerging and established technology fields. ISL also works with expert partners to deliver training based on its publications.
Publications
Buses, Bankers and the Beer of Revenge
From Greek computers to aircraft carriers made of ice - a collection of 50 of the best stories from Justin Pollard’s Eccentric Engineer column in E&T magazine.
Engineering & Technology magazine
E&T is the leading monthly magazine for all engineering professionals. Its award winning content is available in print, online and on iPad.
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Get Involved
Communities, sectors, volunteers & discussion forums-
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MyCommunity
Shape your community. Shape your world.
MyCommunity, the IET's professional network and collaboration platform, enabling you to connect, interact and exchange knowledge with your peers.
Volunteering
Interact with the IET and raise your professional profile
Volunteering can enhance your career development, is a personally rewarding experience and also benefits your Community.
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Events
Conferences, seminars, courses, lectures & visits-
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Highlighted events
20 May 2013 | IET London: Savoy Place, UK
11 - 14 June 2013 | Wyboston Lakes Hotel, Bedfordshire, UK
14 June 2013 | IET London: Savoy Place, UK
8 - 10 April 2014 | Midland Hotel, Manchester, UK
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Policy & Media
Thought leadership, media centre & public affairs-
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Media centre
IET corporate news and activities, plus comment and reaction on engineering and technology issues.
Read what the media is saying about the IET and our activities.
We can provide independent experts to talk to the media on a range of engineering and technology related subjects.
Advice and support to IET members on promoting IET activities via the media and social media.
Policy
Key topics offer summaries of the IET’s positions on many of the most important policy topics.
The IET represents the views of its members on a wide range of professional and technological issues.
Offering unbiased, independent, evidence based policy advice.
The engineering profession speaking with one voice on key issues relating to engineering.
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Energy Policy Panel
Providing impartial engineering advice to government and Parliament on energy policy issues.
The Energy Policy Panel (EPP) is a high-level advisory body established to address matters of policy and public concern relating to energy policy on behalf of the IET. The panel's composition is drawn from senior members of the IET and recognised experts in the field of energy policy.
It is one of fourteen Policy Panels established by the IET policy department.
Members of the Energy Policy Panel
Current Activities
Energy policy globally is in the midst of great challenge and change. In the UK, the government has to deliver secure energy supplies and decarbonisation affordably in a time of austerity, with huge requirements for innovation and investment. Government therefore has a real need for impartial engineering advice on the practical deliverability of policy aims. The IET is contributing strongly to this focussing in particular on:
- developing policy that considers energy as a whole system rather than optimising on one aspect or technology
- smart networks, including smart metering and smart grids. The Panel leads a multidisciplinary effort involving the IT, Communications and Transport Policy Panels.
- deliverability of policy goals from a technology, engineering and construction perspective
- energy security and resilience
This includes working with Select Committees, the Department of Energy and Climate Change, the regulator Ofgem and others. Our work is regarded as independent and authoritative.
Relevant reports and briefings
UK Energy Policy 1980-2010: A History and Lessons to be Learnt
IET briefing on nuclear power in a diversified energy portfolio
Relevant submissions
2013
- S957 - Local energy
- S955 - Gas generation strategy
- S953 - Electricity demand reduction
- S951 - Smart meter roll out
- S950 - Low Carbon Networks Fund - electricity demand
2012
- S949 - Electricity Capacity Assessment 2013: Consultation on Methodology
- S948 - A Severn Barrage
- S945 - Smart Metering Specification second version (SMETS 2)
- S941 - Economics of wind power
- S937 - Draft Energy Bill – Pre Legislative Scrutiny
- S936 - Offshore transmission - potential measures to support efficient network coordination
- S934 - Promoting smarter energy generation
- S932 - Energy efficiency
- S931 - Electricity distribution price control review – RIIO-ED1
- S930 - The Role of Gas in Electricity Market
- S929 - Ofgem Draft Forward Work Programme
- S928 - A robust grid for 21st century Scotland
- S926 - The Future of heating: a strategic framework for low carbon heat in the UK
Additional submissions made by the IET may be found in the submissions archive.
If you are a member, and would like to input into the IET's policy work, please join the Energy Policy Key.
