Final Country Report HTR Task: United States
This is the final report deliverable to conclude Phase 1 of our HTR Task, with special focus on our U.S. funder and National Expert, the Consortium for Energy Efficiency. We summarise the main findings and recommendations from each Subtask of our 4-year Task, and provide links to the huge amount of deliverables and work completed so […]
Characterising HTR Energy Users: A Literature Review
This e-Book is based on a landscape, literature and stakeholder assessment and includes insights from 120 survey responses of HTR experts around the world, as well as 50 in-depth expert interviews, and almost 1000 pieces of literature that were reviewed between 2019-2021. It is perhaps the most comprehensive characterisation of hard-to-reach energy users, and provides […]
The Building Blocks of Behaviour Change – HTR Task Research Process
The HTR Task in collaboration with our Project Partners the See Change Institute, have co-created and tested a research framework to guide our Task, to use for ex-post case study analyses, and to help us design, implement and evaluate our field research. It is called the Building Blocks of Behaviour Change, and marries Design Thinking […]
Are we getting the best out of Smart Home Technologies. The Role of Usability.
Smart Home Technologies (SHTs) are believed to have potential to support reduced carbon emissions. These technologies can include, but are not limited to, smart heating, lighting and cooling, electric vehicle charging and a broad variety of smart domestic appliances.
Fit to Serve? The story about energy service supporting business models and systems
Thanks to the Paris agreements, Al Gore, Greta Thunberg, and the relentless flow of numbers and figures that provide proof of global warming, the sense of urgency to reduce energy consumption and stimulate the use of renewable energy has increased enormously over the past years.
