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. Abla Hanna, Senior Director of the Office of Energy Efficiency, Natural Resources Canada, and the country’s delegate on the UsersTCP’s Executive Committee, said:
“I am pleased to represent Canada as an Executive Committee member of the UsersTCP. Our team at Natural Resources Canada is excited to work together with international counterparts to explore and better understand the role of users within energy systems to drive energy efficiency and accelerate the energy transition. To advance these objectives, Canada has joined the new Energy Sector Behavioural Insights Platform Annex. We look forward to learning about ways in which various jurisdictions across the world are applying behavioural insights to energy policy and incorporating this new knowledge and best practices to energy efficiency policy-making here in Canada.”
Contact the UsersTCP for more information on how to join.
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Energy Sector Behavioural Insights Platform launches international survey
The Energy Sector Behavioural Insights Platform, an initiative of the International Energy Agency and UsersTCP, is conducting research on how organisations are leveraging behavioural insights to shape energy policies and programmes.
The IEA and UsersTCP have created a survey to learn more about the work that organisations are carrying out in this field. By completing this survey, you will be contributing towards building knowledge in this sphere.
LINK TO THE SURVEY: it also contains a brief introduction to this project and our objectives and expectations.
It would be appreciated if all surveys could be completed by Tuesday, 11 MAY 2020.
Survey responses will provide input into a report that the IEA and the UsersTCP will develop highlighting best practices in behavioural insights applications to energy-related policies and programmes, work that we hope will assist your organisation in leveraging behavioural insights.
If you have any questions about the survey or if you would like to know more about the Behavioural Insights Platform, you can directly get in touch with the IEA project coordinators at energy.efficiency@iea.org or read more on our website.
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New UsersTCP Annex on Gender and Energy gets 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. The new UsersTCP Annex will gather researchers from the fields of gender and energy in a global network to analyse energy policy and technologies from gender perspectives and provide recommendations for policy design and implementation.
Annex Operating Agent, Anna Åberg from Chalmers University explains more about the forthcoming international work.
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From crisis to crisis: embedding lessons from Covid-19 to help us address the climate crisis
As behavioural scientists we are well aware, disruptions break habits and can lead to new ways of working. This has never been more apparent than in the current Covid-19 crisis. Our world has been turned inside out - or more correctly for around a third of the world’s population outside in. Under lockdown we are all having to scramble to restructure modes of operating. While many new practices will feel compromised - many old habits may show themselves to be less valued than first expected. Ways of operating that seemed unreasonable a month ago have become (and perhaps should remain) the new normal.
Read more from UsersTCP Chair Professor David Shipworth
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In memory of Anne Bengtson: the rock upon which the TCP was built
The Executive Committee meeting of the UsersTCP in April 2020 was the TCP’s first ExCo meeting in 27 years without Anne Bengtson. Anne’s sudden passing earlier this year was a great shock to all those involved with the TCP. She was both a wonderful colleague and a great friend to so many people in the TCP and in the energy efficiency community, through her work with eceee.
Read Anne’s obituary, co-authored by former TCP Chair, Hans Nilsson
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Global Observatory on Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Annex goes from strength to strength
There is growing interest around the world in new ways of producing, exchanging and consuming energy. In February 2020, the Florence School of Regulation (FSR) hosted the second meeting of the Global Observatory dedicated to these new energy models. About 60 people from all over the world, both from academia and the world of practice, joined the two-day event, enabling a meaningful exchange of experiences, early reflections and research proposals.
Read more about the highlights of the event on our website.
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User-Centred Energy Systems Academy
The current COVID-19 pandemic has emphasised the importance of electricity systems and connectivity to those who are fortunate enough to be able to work from home. As more and more end-uses are electrified, from heating to vehicles, these issues are going to become even more significant. Smart, flexible and energy efficient homes will become energy resources able to communicate with electricity networks and be compensated for the provision of energy services. Well, that’s the theory, but there are many technological, behavioural and regulatory barriers to overcome before it becomes a reality.
Join Steve Beletich for a discussion around Smart Homes on our next webinar on 21 May 2020 and view our constantly updated Webinar Archive, or view on YouTube.
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