Author Archives: Simone Gristwood

“No more meters? Let’s make energy a service, not a commodity”

Posted on April 28, 2015

By Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster University and Matt Watson, Sheffield University Originally published in Imagine never again receiving an energy bill. Instead, you could pay a flat fee for “comfort”, “cleanliness” or “home entertainment” alongside a premium for more energy-demanding TVs, kettles or fridge-freezers. This isn’t the stuff of science fiction – it’s emerging…

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Tales from a well-wrapped historian: smart meters and the management of heating

Posted on March 25, 2015

by Anna Carlsson-Hyslop (more…)

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Reducing energy consumption in urban transport: Ecologies of innovation in the UK. Tim Schwanen

Posted on March 19, 2015

The need to move away from fossil fuel powered transport is now well established, and cities are often seen as the places par excellence where sociotechnical transitions towards sustainable, low-energy mobility are in the making. Yet, exactly why some cities are more successful in moving towards lower energy consumption than others remains only partly understood. This presentation will argue…

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Talk: What is energy for? Understanding consumption, efficiency and demand, Elizabeth Shove

Posted on March 16, 2015

Sara Pasquier, from the IEA, invited Elizabeth to give an opening presentation to a two day workshop in Paris, launching a two year International Energy Agency programme of work on ‘energy efficiency and behaviour’.  As promised, the talk highlighted the dangers of focusing on energy efficiency (alone), challenged conventional methods of conceptualising behaviour, and argued for a more…

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Submission: Resilience of electricity infrastructure, Submission to HoL inquiry, September 2014

Posted on March 12, 2015

12 March 2015: Report from the enquiry - see pgs 51-58 of this HoL select committee report for a number of specific references to both our written submission and oral evidence. Original Submission by DEMAND to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee inquiry into the resilience of electricity infrastructure. Further information on the call for submissions. Gordon…

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