time use

Talk: The Time and Timing of UK Domestic Energy DEMAND, Ben Anderson

The Time and Timing of UK Domestic Energy DEMAND by Ben Anderson, University of Southampton. Invited keynote presentation to the Otago Energy Research Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 28th November 2014.

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Data Byte: Peak Dinner

One of the problems troubling the UK electricity industry is how to deal with domestic evening  'peak' demand, especially in winter. From a DEMAND point of view this means we need to understand what happens during the evening period. If we know what practices lead to the emergence of 'peak' then we might be able to think about ways those practices could be re-configured to avoid costly…

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Social practices, energy demand and time use data –methodological lessons from DEMAND, 17 October 2014

This workshop provided an opportunity to present, share and discuss some of the analysis techniques developed and data challenges encountered in DEMAND so far and to bring together others working on energy, mobility and Time Use data. Results and data challenges from these analyses were presented to provoke discussion on the main advantages and challenges of using Time Use data to investigate…

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Working Paper 3: Categories, Concepts and Units: Representing energy demand in and through time

Working Paper 3: Theme 1, Jillian Anable, Ben Anderson, Elizabeth Shove, Jacopo Torriti, July 2014. Methods of data collection are unavoidably rooted in some sort of theoretical paradigm, and are inextricably tied to an implicit agenda or broad problem framing. These prior orientations are not always explicit, but they matter for what data is collected and how it is used. They also…

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Talk: The Rhythms and Components of ‘Peak Energy’ Demand, Ben Anderson, Richard Hanna, Jacopo Torriti

Presentation given at Behave Energy Conference, Oxford, 3-4 September 2014. Abstract: (more…)

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