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
Author Archives: Simone Gristwood
What do we actually know about household electricity use? Phillip Grunewald
What we use electricity for has not been of great concern to system operators in the past. With a large fleet of flexible fossil fuel plants it was sufficient to roughly predict demand and then provide as and when needed. Under this paradigm it makes no difference whether electricity is used to provide a time specific service (like viewing Coronation Street), something that could be…
View full post →Linkages between materials, energy and economy: production and consumption changes for a low material and carbon future, John Barrett
Seminar with John Barrett, Leeds University, 16 December 2015 The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) provides robust evidence demonstrating the need to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) rapidly to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. The UK Government defines its contribution towards this goal as achieving an 80% reduction in GHG emissions by 2050 from a 1990…
View full post →Working paper 16: Fuel Poverty Policy and Non-Heating Energy Uses
DEMAND working paper 16 Neil Simcock and Gordon Walker (April 2016) Fuel Poverty Policy and Non-Heating Energy Uses
View full post →Submission: The next frontier in our digital revolution. Submission to UK Digital Strategy by Mike Hazas and Janine Morley
Mike Hazas and Janine Morley have responded to UK Digital Strategy's call for evidence on 'The next frontier in our digital revolution' and focus on how resilience and energy demand must be considered alongside economic growth. The full response is available to download: Digital Strategy Ideas
View full post →Submission: Electricity interconnection and storage. Submission to The Infrastructure Commission, December 2015
Response to call for evidence by The Infrastructure Commission by Elizabeth Shove In line with the published terms of reference, the Commission is seeking evidence on how changes to existing market frameworks, increased interconnection and new technologies in demand-side management and energy storage can better balance supply and demand. What changes may need to be made to the…
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