Designing household energy systems to be more inclusive, equal and efficient
Bike to work or install solar panels? Gender affects our view of sustainability and how we plan our energy consumption. In a collaboration between HSB Living Lab and the product design studio Boid, in Gothenburg, Sweden, a concept is now being developed for how households’ energy systems can become more inclusive, equal and efficient.
Public Engagement Task at the High-Level Electricity Grids Forum
The Renewables Grid Initiative (RGI), one of the leading organisations for UsersTCP’s Public Engagement Task, facilitated a special session during the first High-Level Electricity Grids Forum: Future of Our Grids.
Users TCP Tasks research published in ERSS on ScienceDirect online
Recent research from our Social License to Automate and Hard-to-Reach Energy Users Tasks have been published online under the Energy Research & Social Science section of ScienceDirect.
Behave Conference 2023 – deadline for submitting abstracts 17th July 2023
Behave 2023, the 7th European Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency by the European Energy Network (EnR, the network of European energy agencies) will take place in Maastricht, the
Public Engagement for Energy Infrastructure Task at the ECPR Conference
The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) will organise their General Conference on 4-8 September 2023 in Prague. Bringing together different perspectives of political research within the European context,
Public Engagement Task at the European Commission’s Energy Infrastructure Forum
The 9th Energy Infrastructure Forum On 12-13 June 2023, the European Commission in cooperation with the Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities organized the 9th Energy Infrastructure Forum.
The women who tear down power structures with solar energy
The women are illiterate and live in traditional, patriarchal societies, but are given the opportunity to become solar engineers and lead the electrification of their home villages. Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden are now examining the ground-breaking initiative in Zanzibar, focusing on the social and unequal conditions of the energy transition – and on how power structures can be overturned.
New CampaignXchange Task coordinated by IEA Secretariat
Our new CampaignXchange Task has commenced, coordinated by the IEA Secretariat, designed to support countries running energy savings campaigns.
Gender & Energy Task Newsletter #3
The latest Newsletter from the Gender & Energy Task is now available with highlights, new publications and recent achievements.
Annual Report for 2022/23 now available
The Annual Report published by the TCP for the 2022/23 year is now available for download here.
GO-P2P Concept Paper makes Top 10 downloads list on SSRN repository
The GO-P2P Concept Paper that our GO-P2P Task Leaders lead on has made the top 10 downloads from the section of the SSRN repository it’s housed on.
BI Platform Task receives prestigious J-PAL grant award
We are thrilled to announce that the BI Platform has been awarded funding by J-PAL’s King Climate Action Initiative (K-CAI). The funding will be used to match the contributions of the Task Participants and to deepen the scope of the activities carried in Phase 3 of the Users TCP BI Platform.
New Policy Brief from Social License to Automate Task
Our latest Policy Brief is an overview for policy makers highlighting key observations and findings from stage one of the Task which concluded in October 2021 with the publication of their final report “Social License to Automate” Emerging Approaches to Demand Side Management”.
Public Engagement Task Started
The Task on Public Engagement for Energy Infrastructure has started. If you are interested in collaborating with us in the context of interviews and workshops, please get in contact.
Gender & Energy Task – 2022 Conference Papers
Two sessions organised by the task at the ERSS in Manchester, with participation from the majority of our task members. (20-24 June 2022). ERSS session 10: Closing the gender gap in energy policies for a just transition.
New Users TCP Task “Social License to Automate 2.0” launches November 23rd 2022
The follow-up Task “Social License to Automate 2.0” aims at developing a more in-depth and expanded understanding of how the granting of a social license to automate can be supported in a more inclusive and community-oriented manner.
What we talk about when we talk about energy sharing – read the new GO-P2P blog
Defining Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading, Community Self-Consumption and Transactive Energy Models. As energy end-users take on a more active role in the energy system, new energy business models are developing to tackle a key challenge: how can we integrate decentralised energy assets into the grid and incentivise prosumers to provide flexibility services?
Behavioural Energy Policy Toolkit presented at Energy Transformations conference
Ondrej Kacha, one of the Task Leaders of the Behavioural Insights Platform, presented the recently released Behavioural Energy Policy Toolkit at the Energy Transformations conference in Manchester in June.
