Energy savings obligations in the UK - a history of change Rosenow, Jan Climate systems and policy Public policy energy savings obligations energy efficiency policy policy change This paper looks at Energy Savings Obligations in the UK. More specifically, it discusses how the policy instrument changed over time and what the drivers of that change were. The UK was the first country in Europe that introduced Energy Savings Obligations on suppliers to save energy at the customer end in 1994. Since then this policy changed rapidly and is now the principal instrument to deliver energy savings in the housing stock. This paper aims to answer three questions: First, how did the policy instrument change over time? Second, what were the key drivers of that change? Third, how did those pressures filter through the policy process and affect the energy savings obligations? 2012-October text Article: post-print Published Peer reviewed Accepted Manuscript Published born digital doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.06.052 issn: 0301-4215 Oxford Research Archive internal ID: ora:6590 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421512005629 ora:6590 en http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421512005629 urn:uuid:22e44d19-7323-44af-9d82-5dbc1785538e