The User-Centred Energy Systems mission is to provide evidence from socio-technical research on the design, social acceptance and usability of clean energy technologies to inform policy making for clean, efficient and secure energy transitions.
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Outcomes and Lessons Learnt from the Gender and Energy Task
The Gender and Energy Task – full name “Empowering all: Gender in policy and implementation for achieving transitions to sustainable energy” – started in January 2021 and is now about to wrap up three years of successful work.
Household energy choices: A new report from the third OECD EPIC survey data
New report from the OECD in collaboration with Waseda University, Fukui Prefectural University, Chalmers University of Technology, the University of Edinburgh and the International Energy Agency
The paper offers insights on the factors that determine household choices related to energy use, based on data from the third OECD Survey on Environmental Policies and Individual Behaviour Change (EPIC), co-funded by the Users TCP.
Summary insights from the recent HTR Task workshop elevating Indigenous voices
On June 6, 2024, we held a National Expert workshop for the Hard-to-Reach Energy Users Task, as part of the Users TCP Executive Committee and Consortium for Energy Efficiency (CEE) board meetings in Boston.
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HTR Task Summary of National Expert Workshop in Boston (June 2024)
These are the summary meeting minutes from the Hard-to-Reach Energy Users Task hui (workshop) in Boston (June 6, 2024). We focused on elevating Indigenous voices, who are top priority communities to involve in the just energy transition efforts in the three countries participating in the HTR Task.
A conceptual analysis of gendered energy care work and epistemic injustice through a case study of Zanzibar’s Solar Mamas
Energy and climate transitions bear an inherent risk of replicating historically embedded unjust gendered norms in the current energy regimes. Positioning our work within critical feminist scholarship, our study emphasizes the embedded nature of energy technologies within respective socio-economic, institutional and cultural contexts. We argue that interventions prioritizing care and knowledge in decentralized, locally managed energy provisioning have the potential to disrupt established gender relations.
Gender & Energy Task: Netherlands case study
This case study contributes to providing an understanding of the systematic inertias in the sociotechnical energy system that appear to be hindering the development and implementation of gender aware energy policies. The case study focuses on a condition known as ‘energy poverty’ and how it is currently addressed in the context of the Netherlands.
The UsersTCP Academy builds on the success of a half century of webinars delivered through the DSM University. The new series provides access to the knowledge developed through our research programme and the work of our partners.
