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Author: Vikki Searancke

European Commission launches the Energy Behavioural Change Toolkit

Energy Behaviour Forum has launched the energy behavioural change toolkit. This toolkit, based on the behaviour change wheel and inspired by the Users TCP Behavioural Insights Toolkit (developed by the Behavioural Insights Platform), is designed for policymakers and practitioners in local and regional authorities, who want to learn more about ways to apply behavioural insights techniques to improve behaviour change campaigns, programmes and interventions. 

Phase 3 of Social License to Automate Task commences

Led by Selin Yilmaz, an assistant professor in the Institute of Geography and Sustainability at University of Lausanne, Phase 3 of the Social License to Automate Task commenced in November 2025 with a two year work plan.

New report evaluates the flexibility potential of heat pumps and electric vehicles

In a new report, commissioned by the Users TCP and 4E TCP EDNA Platform, the Austrian Institute of Technology conclude that unlocking flexibility is primarily a societal and institutional challenge, rather than a purely technical one. Technical readiness is already high, but behavioural factors significantly limit practical deployment.

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 the past 12 months. This year we have released it in an online version which can be viewed here.

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”.

Ainslee Emerson elected as new User-Centred Energy Systems TCP Chair

Ainslee is Senior Director of the Strategic Policy and Analysis Division in the Office of Energy Efficiency at Natural Resources Canada. She brings a wealth of experience from her work on energy policy in Canada, chairing the International Energy Agency’s Gender Advisory Council and representing Canada on the steering committee of the Clean Energy Ministerial.

Gender & Energy Task Newsletter #5

The final Newsletter from Phase 1 of the Empowering All Task (Gender & Energy) is now available with highlights, new publications and announcement of Phase 2.

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.

New GO-P2P Case Study Repository launched

The GO-P2P Case Study Repository website is now live! This platform presents a collection of case studies representing Peer-to-Peer, Transactive Energy and Community/Collective Self-Consumption projects implemented around the world. Developed as part of the Global Observatory on Peer-to-Peer, Collective Self-Consumption and Transactive Energy (GO-P2P), this resource aims to provide a rich dataset for comparative analysis […]

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 Netherlands, on 28th and 29th November 2023. The theme of this edition of the conference is ‘Scaling-up behaviour change in the light of the energy and […]

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”.

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?

2021 Annual Report now available

The 2021 Annual Report is now available to view. This report provides an overview of the activities and outputs of the UsersTCP and its Tasks during 2021.

2020 Annual Report published

The 2020 Annual Report is now available to view. This report provides an overview of the activities and outputs of the UsersTCP and its Tasks during 2020.

First Policy Brief from Behavioural Insights Platform

Following on from the December 2020 publication of the report ‘Behavioural insights for demand-side energy policy and programmes: An environment scan’, the Energy Sector Behavioural Insights Platform has prepared the first UsersTCP Policy Brief based on this work.

New Users TCP Task on Gender and Energy gets the go-ahead

We are excited to announce that a new international research collaboration – Empowering all: Gender in policy and implementation for achieving transitions to sustainable energy – has been approved by the UsersTCP Executive Committee.

Canada joins the UsersTCP

We are delighted to welcome Canada as the first country to join the UsersTCP since we relaunched in Melbourne, Australia late last year.