Understanding Demand
Influencing Demand
Policies for steering demand
Invisible energy policy
Adapting social practices
Commission on Travel Demand
How Demand Varies
Situations, Sites, Sectors
Domestic IT use
Home heating
Offices and office work
Business travel
Online shopping
Car dependence
Older people and mobile lives
Local smart grids
Cooking and cooling in Asia
Energy, Justice and Poverty
Event Reports
Research that matters: How to co-design research and co-produce knowledge for scientific and societal impact. Michael Stauffacher
Michael took us through some of the fundamentals of adding words to the beginning of disciplinary – multi, inter, trans – in order to then consider the ways in which forms of transdisciplinarity (meaning extending beyond disciplines to work with others outside of academia) and co-production of research can be achieved. (more…)
View full post →Pet care practices and the practices of pets. Yolande Strengers
Yolande was originally intending to talk about ‘smart utopias’ but at the last moment changed her topic to pets. She’d discovered that pets generate significant opportunities and occasions for energy consumption. The range of pet-related gadgets is impressive: there are ipad games for pets, treadmills for dogs, and special air-conditioned kennels. (more…)
View full post →Demand management at Lancaster University. Jan Bastiaans
Jan is the relatively newly appointed energy manager at Lancaster University and in his talk he took us through what that job entailed, the carbon and sustainability related targets he is expected to meet and the opportunities and limitations that there are around his role. (more…)
View full post →Stacking wood and staying warm: Temporal organization of domestic heating practices. Jenny Rinkinen
Jenny talked about her research on using wood to heat homes in Finland. Heating with wood happens at different scales and takes different forms. There are central heating systems that use wood pellets rather than coal or oil for fuel and that provide an even heat throughout the home. And then there are log fires. These need regular attention and they provide more localised and more variable…
View full post →The need for electricity: Electricity as a need. Neil Simcock
Neil talked about the need for electricity. He approached the topic from three angles, first noticing that in much public debate/media concepts of need and demand are used interchangeably: if electricity is called for (demanded), then it must be needed. Hence the ‘need’ to keep the lights on, etc. This indicates that in popular and policy discourse there is no serious discussion of need,…
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