Thirty-five years of research on energy and power: A landscape analysis
Highlights from this paper:
-An overview of research centred on users and inclusion in energy transitions.
-Work on energy users and justice largely overlooks gender and class differences.
-Mainstream perspectives overlook diversity and richness within social categories.
-Policy-oriented work on users in inclusive energy transitions needs better evidence.
-Important contributions come from non-Western scholars, contexts and epistemologies.
HTR Task Summary of National Expert Workshop in Boston (June 2024)
These are the summary meeting minutes from the Hard-to-Reach Energy Users Task hui (workshop) in Boston (June 6, 2024). We focused on elevating Indigenous voices, who are top priority communities to involve in the just energy transition efforts in the three countries participating in the HTR Task.
A conceptual analysis of gendered energy care work and epistemic injustice through a case study of Zanzibar’s Solar Mamas
Energy and climate transitions bear an inherent risk of replicating historically embedded unjust gendered norms in the current energy regimes. Positioning our work within critical feminist scholarship, our study emphasizes the embedded nature of energy technologies within respective socio-economic, institutional and cultural contexts. We argue that interventions prioritizing care and knowledge in decentralized, locally managed energy provisioning have the potential to disrupt established gender relations.
Gender & Energy Task: Netherlands case study
This case study contributes to providing an understanding of the systematic inertias in the sociotechnical energy system that appear to be hindering the development and implementation of gender aware energy policies. The case study focuses on a condition known as ‘energy poverty’ and how it is currently addressed in the context of the Netherlands.
Policy Brief – How to meaningfully engage the public in energy infrastructure projects
The Public Engagement for Energy Infrastructure Task identifies challenges and drivers for effective public engagement practices and gathers evidence from international case studies on meaningful engagement approaches and formats to increase social acceptance of energy infrastructure projects.
2023/24 Annual Report
The 2023 Annual Report is now available to view. This report provides an overview of the activities and outputs of the UsersTCP and its Tasks during 2023.
Developing a household energy planner through norm creative design
Boid’s part in subtask 3 aimed to explore and implement norm critical design at a practical level. Boid’s contribution was to develop and implement technical interventions that support inclusive energy use and challenge prevailing norms in sustainable energy consumption in the specific context of Swedish households.
Factsheet: Creating energy technologies, that are meaningful and usable for all
How technology developers can contribute to making sustainable energy supply more equal in terms of accessibility to ensure the participation of all.
A factsheet from the Gender & Energy Task.
Guidelines for citizens, developers and policymakers on public engagement for energy infrastructure projects
The final deliverable of the UsersTCP Task Public Engagement in Energy Infrastructure summarises the research findings into an interactive tool for guiding meaningful engagement in energy projects.
Report: Assessing the impacts of public engagement in energy infrastructure projects
This report aims to assess 98 cases of public engagement in energy infrastructure projects to reveal impacts on the project development process and its outcomes.
GO-P2P Policy Brief – Unlocking local energy markets
This policy briefing explores the policy changes needed to implement P2P/TE/CSC models, based on GO-P2P’s findings so far.
Applying behavioural insights to unlock residential 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.
Research into hard-to-reach electricity customers living in hidden hardship
This report presents the conclusions of a two-year project, co-funded by the two largest electricity retailers in Aotearoa New Zealand. Industry wanted to work alongside the community to find
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
CampaignXchange Task: Emerging Best Practices Brief
This overview paper summarises best practices that governments have reported throughout design, implementation and tracking of energy-saving campaigns. The insights are drawn from the information provided by the Task Participants, interviews with policy makers, campaign outcomes shared with the IEA and other relevant data.
Factsheet: Drivers and barriers of public engagement in energy infrastructure
The UsersTCP Task Public Engagement in Energy Infrastructure summarises its new report into a 2-page factsheet to allow an easy understanding of the key research results.
Slide Pack: Drivers and barriers of public engagement in energy infrastructure
The UsersTCP Task Public Engagement in Energy Infrastructure summarises its new report into a slide pack to allow an easy understanding of the key research results.
Report: Drivers and barriers of public engagement in energy infrastructure
This report aims to identify common socio-psychological, socio-technical and institutional challenges and drivers for effective public engagement in energy infrastructure, and to explore how barriers can be overcome.
Sweden’s Integrated Energy and Climate Plan: An analysis
How is the image of Sweden as champion of gender equality and promoter of welfare policies holding when digging deep into Sweden’s Integrated Energy and Climate Plan?
Energy consulting: A tool for inclusion?
This case study was conducted within the Gender & Energy Task and analyzes to what extent the instrument of company-independent energy consulting in Austria addresses different target groups and takes gender and diversity aspects into account.
