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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”Solar Mamas” on the cover of Nature Energy
The case study on Barefoot college/Solar mamas projects in Zanzibar resulted in an article published in Nature Energy. It even made it to the cover, which was the first
New Policy Brief from CampaignXchange Task
With the conclusion of the work program of the CampaignXchange Task, the Task has published a new Policy Brief highlighting key findings and lessons learnt.
Register for an Online Event: Overcoming Challenges in Behavioural Demand Flexibility
Join us for an online roundtable discussion exploring the challenges and opportunities in behavioural demand flexibility. The event will take place on Zoom on 20th November 2024, at 3:00
Tasks
Publications
Policy Brief – Emerging Best Practices for Campaign Design and Implementation
The CampaignXchange Task fostered knowledge sharing among governments, collected campaign results and data and identified best practices for future public campaign design and implementation.
The Task emerged from the collective interest of policymakers to assess the outcomes and features of behavioural interventions in response to the 2022 energy crisis.
Thirty-five years of research on energy and power: A landscape analysis
Highlights from this paper:
-An overview of research centred on users and inclusion in energy transitions.
-Work on energy users and justice largely overlooks gender and class differences.
-Mainstream perspectives overlook diversity and richness within social categories.
-Policy-oriented work on users in inclusive energy transitions needs better evidence.
-Important contributions come from non-Western scholars, contexts and epistemologies.
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.
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.
