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Just released! 2024/25 Annual Report
The Users TCP Annual Report for our 2024/25 financial year has been published and provides an overview of the work and achievements of the TCP and its Tasks over
Second HCB Network experts meeting – May 14-16, Spokane, Washington, US
Research is underway in this joint Users TCP and EBC TCP Task. The second experts meeting will take place from May 14 to 16, 2025 at Washington State University Spokane Health Sciences Campus, Spokane, Washington, U.S.A.
Save the date! Behave 2025 conference on 11th and 12th December 2025
Save the date! On 11th and 12th December 2025, Behave 2025, the 8th European conference on energy efficiency by the European Energy Network (EnR), will take place in Paris, France. ADEME, the French Agency for Ecological Transition, are organising this edition on the theme “From energy efficiency to sufficiency: the need for a change in lifestyles to ensure a just transition to carbon neutrality”.
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Publications
2024/25 Annual Report
The 2024/25 Annual Report is now available to view in an online version. This report provides an overview of the activities of the Users TCP and its Task during the 2024/25 year.
HTR Task – Unintended Consequences Report
This report is the first major milestone of Year 1 Phase 2 of the Hard-to-Reach Energy Users Task. It delves deeply, via mixed methods research, into the question why well-intentioned energy
interventions don’t always turn out the way they were intended.
Making an inclusive and gender aware energy policy
This paper presents a synthesis of three case studies carried out within the sub-task 2 of the Gender and Energy Research Programme with some supporting evidence from other sources. The sub-task set out to gain an understanding of the systematic inertias in the sociotechnical energy system hindering the formation of gender aware policies and interventions and then to identify ways of countering the inertias.
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.
