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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
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.
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Energy consulting: A tool for inclusion?
This case study was conducted within the Gender & Energy Task and analyzes to what extent the instrument of company-independent energy consulting in Austria addresses different target groups and takes gender and diversity aspects into account.
Social license to automate batteries? Australian householder conditions for participation in Virtual Power Plants
This paper has been published in ERSS and is co-authored by Mike B. Roberts, Sophie M. Adams and Declan Kuch.
Hard-to-reach energy users: An ex-post cross-country assessment of behavioural-oriented interventions
This paper has been published in ERSS and is co-authored by Luis Mundaca, Sea Rotmann, Kira Ashby, Beth Karlin, Danielle Butler, Miguel Macias Sequeira, Joao Pedro Gouveia, Pedro Palma, Anna Realini, Simone Maggiore and Marielle Feenstra.

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