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?
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.
Gender & Energy Task Newsletter #2
The work of this Task is progressing well, with continuous research in all subtasks. Read the highlights of our work from the past 6 months.
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.
Social License to Automate – Final Report & Executive Summary released
Our findings from this 2 year project with 16 researchers in 6 countries and 26 Case studies spanning electric vehicles, home and precinct batteries, air conditioners and other heat pumps is now available, along with an Executive Summary and our recent webinar.
Gender & Energy Task – 2021 Conference Papers
Energy & Society Conference (Trento/online) “Integrating gender into energy policy design: the Rwandan approach” Marielle Feenstra (presenting), Joy Clancy, Helene Ahlborg, Samuel John Unsworth, Sylvere Hategekimana (11 February 2021)
Gender & Energy Task Newsletter #1
First issue of the Gender & Energy Task newsletter.
Are we getting the best out of Smart Home Technologies? The Role of Usability.
This joint report with the 4E TCP Electronic Devices & Networks Annex investigates ‘usability’ issues associated with energy smart digital devices. Download the report here.
Social license to automate: A critical review of emerging approaches to electricity demand management
The latest publication from the Social License to Automate Task (Adams et al 2021).
Business Models and Systems Task launches Fit to Serve platform
As the Business Models and Systems Task ends its work program, they have gathered the main results of the Task into one outreach channel, the Fit to Serve platform at https://www.fittoserve.eu/
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.
Plug and Play Devices project gets started with Energy Systems Catapult
The joint project on Plug and Play Devices with the Electronic Devices and Networks Annex of the 4E TCP has commenced, with Energy Systems Catapult leading the research.
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.
INATBA Launches Task Force with Global Observatory on Energy Trading (GO-P2P)
Initiative will tackle standardisation gaps around energy trading using distributed ledger technologies.
