New guidebook: Results of four large-scale field experiments to unlock residential demand flexibility
The Users TCP Behavioural Insights Platform has now published its concluding deliverable for Phase 3: Applying behavioural insights to unlock residential demand flexibility: Lessons from field experiments and surveys in four countries.
Unlocking Residential Demand Flexibility: Webinar presents evidence from large scale field experiments
As electricity systems transition to renewables, balancing supply and demand is becoming more complex. Demand flexibility (i.e., encouraging households to shift when they use electricity) has moved from theory to policy priority. But what actually works in the real world?
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.
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
New guidebook: Applying behavioural insights to unlock energy demand flexibility
The Users TCP Behavioural Insights Platform has published a new guidebook titled ‘Applying behavioural insights to unlock energy demand flexibility: Guidebook for practitioners’. This guidebook provides essential guidance to policymakers and energy suppliers interested in applying behavioural insights to improve residential demand response.
BI Platform Task receives prestigious J-PAL grant award
We are thrilled to announce that the BI Platform has been awarded funding by J-PAL’s King Climate Action Initiative (K-CAI). The funding will be used to match the contributions of the Task Participants and to deepen the scope of the activities carried in Phase 3 of the Users TCP BI Platform.
Behavioural Energy Policy Toolkit presented at Energy Transformations conference
Ondrej Kacha, one of the Task Leaders of the Behavioural Insights Platform, presented the recently released Behavioural Energy Policy Toolkit at the Energy Transformations conference in Manchester in June.
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.
Behavioural insights for demand-side energy policy and programmes report published
During its first year of activity, the Behavioural Insights Platform of the UsersTCP, with the IEA, has developed an environment scan report assessing how behavioural insights have been applied to demand-side energy policy and programmes.
Energy Sector Behavioural Insights Platform launches international survey
The Energy Sector Behavioural Insights Platform is conducting research on how organisations are leveraging behavioural insights to shape energy policies and programmes.