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”.
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.
HTR Task Releases Major Report on Unintended Consequences
The major report just released by the Hard-to-Reach Energy Users Task delves deeply into the question which unintended consequences arise (and why) when well-intentioned energy interventions don’t turn out the way they were intended.
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.
HTR Task Releases New Report on Co-Designing an Energy Wellbeing Network in Aotearoa NZ
Dr Sea Rotmann, HTR Task Leader (NZ) recently concluded a facilitation / co-design project, funded by the Electricity Retailers Association NZ (ERANZ) to bring together NZ industry, community & frontline providers, and researchers to address the huge issue of energy hardship in New Zealand.
Gender just lens to analyse energy policies
Gender inequality, social injustice and unequal access to energy is a global concern embedded in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that call for action at the national policy level.
HTR Task released two publications at the ACEEE Summer Study 2024
The Hard-to-Reach Energy Users Task presented two publications at the 2024 ACEEE Summer Study. The first, titled “Addressing Energy Hardship By Putting Communities at the Center – Comparative Approaches
Newsletter Issue No. 11
Follow the latest news and updates from our TCP Projects, Tasks and Academy.
SLA2.0 Task concludes with final report published
Phase 2 of the Social License to Automate Task has conlcuded, and the Task has published their final report and findings.
”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 time a photograph of people was featured on the cover.
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
Public Engagement for Energy Infrastructure Task webinar: Applying public engagement research to the Dutch context
As we transition to a renewables-based energy system, opposition has become a bottleneck towards building the needed infrastructure for the future. Therefore, ensuring support for energy infrastructures is key
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.
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.
Public Engagement for Energy Infrastructure Task presents results at joint EnR and UsersTCP Workshop
Challenges with public acceptance have been reported to delay renewable energy projects. In that context, ensuring support for energy infrastructures is key to ensuring the energy transition can be
