GO-P2P Subtask 1 – Impact of Local Energy Markets Integration in Power Systems Layer: A Comprehensive Review
In June 2018, the European Union (EU) agreed a legal framework for prosumership as part of the recast of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED II). This puts consumers in the centre of energy transition and introduces Citizen Energy Communities and Renewable Energy Communities.
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.
GO-P2P Subtask 4 – Social and economic value in emerging decentralized energy business models: A critical review
In recent years, numerous studies have explored the opportunities and challenges for emerging decentralized energy systems and business models. However, few studies have focused specifically on the economic and
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.
Social License to Automate: Emerging Approaches to Demand Side Management – Executive Summary
The Social License to Automate Task has investigated the social dimensions of user engagement with automated technologies in energy systems to understand how householder trust to automate is built and maintained in different jurisdictions and settings.
Social License to Automate: Emerging Approaches to Demand Side Management
A significant energy transition is underway across the participating countries in this project, and indeed beyond. In each country, this transition involves significant challenges associated with the relationship between transmission, distribution, and consumption of energy.
2020 Annual Report
2020 has been challenging, but if it has proved anything, it is that social and behavioural change are important and achievable in the face of a crisis. It was also the year in which the IEA launched its Global Commission on People-Centred Clean Energy and the World Energy Council declared the 2020s to be the decade of the customer.
3rd Users TCP ExCo Meeting, April 2021 – via Videoconference
Minutes 3rd UsersTCP ExCo Meeting – April 2021 The 3rd UsersTCP Executive Committee meeting was held via videoconference with some of the business being carried out through written ballot.
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).
4th UsersTCP ExCo meetings – 11th to 14th October 2021
The 4th UsersTCP Executive Committee meetings will take place via videoconference from the 11th to 14th October 2021.
Peer-to-Peer, Community Self-Consumption and Transactive Energy in Latin America – 12th and 13th July 2021
The global drive to decarbonise is reconfiguring power systems globally, but the form this takes varies enormously between regions. Latin America’s energy resources and social structures generate very different
GO-P2P Subtask 2 – P2P, CSC and TE: A Survey on Hardware, Software and Data
Global population is expected to grow significantly over the next 30 years, expecting to hit almost 11 billion by 2050, coupled with the electrification of heating, cooling and transport, this will have a profound effect on electricity consumption and demand.
Launch Event – Gender in energy policy and implementation – 25 May, 2021
Welcome to the launch event and workshop for the UsersTCP Task on Gender and Energy. At the event we will present our newest task on gender and energy use.
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/
UsersTCP Tasks represented at BEHAVE 2021 conference: April 21 – 23
The 6th European Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency – BEHAVE 2020-2021 – takes place as a virtual event from April 21 to April 23. Four of our Tasks
GO-P2P Subtask 5 – Peer-to-Peer Trading and Energy Community in the Electricity Market
The threat of climate change, significant growth in the number of prosumers and local energy generation, and the development of new technologies enabling new business models are all contributing
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.
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.