Gender just lens to analyse energy policies
Gender inequality, social injustice and unequal access to energy is a global concern embedded in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that call for action at the national policy level.
Facilitating Community – Industry Engagement in Aotearoa New Zealand
This research, funded by the Electricity Retailers Association New Zealand (ERANZ), will inform Subtask 5 of Phase 2 (Co-Design of Engagement Strategies For Chosen Priority Audiences) of the HTR Task.
Expert Survey Results. Phase 2 Subtask 2 – Energy Justice Landscape & Stakeholder Analysis
This report summarises the findings from our HTR Task Phase 2 Subtask 2 expert survey. 72 experts from 16 countries answered our Qualtrics survey (ran from November 2023 to March 2024), providing insights into their experiences with hidden energy users, energy justice and just transition programmes, engagement with community and Indigenous organisations, and examples of unintended consequences they encountered. The latter informed our Unintended Consequences report, the major milestone of Year 1 of Phase 2.
HTR Task released two publications at the ACEEE Summer Study 2024
The Hard-to-Reach Energy Users Task presented two publications at the 2024 ACEEE Summer Study. The first, titled “Addressing Energy Hardship By Putting Communities at the Center – Comparative Approaches
Policy Brief – Gender Just Energy Policy
The overarching aim of the EmPOWERing All task is to bring science-based evidence on how to formulate and implement clean, effective and inclusive energy policy and technological interventions, building on perspectives from gender research. This policy brief provides an introduction on how to address and assess energy policy using the gender just energy policy framework.
Human-Centric Buildings For A Changing Climate
Human-Centric Buildings for a Changing Climate Overview Task Duration:November 2024 to May 2029 Participating Countries:Canada, Korea, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States Contact:For more information on the Task see https://annex95.iea-ebc.org/
EmPOWERing All Task
EmPOWERing All: Just and Inclusive Energy Transitions Synopsis The EmPOWERing All Task will gather researchers from the fields of intersectionality and energy in a global network to analyse energy
Newsletter Issue No. 11
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SLA2.0 Task concludes with final report published
Phase 2 of the Social License to Automate Task has conlcuded, and the Task has published their final report and findings.
SLA2.0 Task Final Report
The final report from the Social License to Automate 2.0 Task has been published and is now available to download.
”Solar Mamas” on the cover of Nature Energy
The case study on Barefoot College/Solar Mamas projects in Zanzibar resulted in an article published in Nature Energy. It even made it to the cover, which was the first time a photograph of people was featured on the cover.
New Policy Brief from CampaignXchange Task
With the conclusion of the work program of the CampaignXchange Task, the Task has published a new Policy Brief highlighting key findings and lessons learnt.
Policy Brief – Emerging Best Practices for Campaign Design and Implementation
The CampaignXchange Task fostered knowledge sharing among governments, collected campaign results and data and identified best practices for future public campaign design and implementation.
The Task emerged from the collective interest of policymakers to assess the outcomes and features of behavioural interventions in response to the 2022 energy crisis.
Case Study – Smart Energy Systems: How to Achieve More Inclusive Technology Development?
Austrian Case Study: Smarte Energiesysteme: Wie eine inklusivere Technologieentwicklung erreicht werden kann (in German)
Factsheet – Focus on Usage: Smart Energy Systems
Austrian Factsheet – Die Nutzung im Fokus: Smarte Energiesysteme (in German)
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.
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
Academy Webinar #51 – October 16, 2024 at 3pm CEST
Building Social License for Flexibility: Gender, Diversity and Energy Communities REGISTER HERE Presented by: Lisa Diamond, Scientist, Austrian Institute of Technology, Center for Technology Experience Ange Nkonko Kibelo Martin’s,
Outcomes and Lessons Learnt from the Gender and Energy Task
The Gender and Energy Task – full name “Empowering all: Gender in policy and implementation for achieving transitions to sustainable energy” – started in January 2021 and is now about to wrap up three years of successful work.