Event Reports

Is being incompetent and ignorant all the bad? Insights from the transition to energy saving light bulbs in Denmark. Mikkel Bille

Posted on May 26, 2016

Seminar held: Tuesday 24th May 2016 When new technologies are introduced there is a learning process involved where people need to adjust or invent practices, meanings and knowledge. For instance, as this presentation discusses, the new energy saving light bulb has forced us to think in new ways about light: From the black-boxed Watt to the white-boxed lumen, kelvin, ra. But such…

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Emerging energy practices around decentralised storage of electricity. Sanneke Kloppenburg and Nick Verkade

Posted on May 10, 2016

In this seminar, Wageningen and Eindhoven University researchers Sanneke Kloppenburg and Nick Verkade will present the overarching research proposal and their plans for fieldwork in the UK.  They will also reflect on some of the first findings from their interviews and document study on community energy storage as a distinct storage mode in the UK. Storage is often identified as a key…

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The Mobility of the “Uber” Generation: Investigating Individual Attitudes, Lifestyles, Residential Location and Adoption of Shared Mobility of Millennials in California. Giovanni Circella

Posted on May 4, 2016

Passenger travel is going through a time of great transformation in the United States as well as in other countries. Young adults ("millennials"), in particular, are reported to behave (and travel) differently from previous generations at the same stage in life: they postpone the time they obtain a driver's license, often choose to live in urban locations and not to own a car, drive less even…

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Pre-Conference Workshop, 12-13 April 2016

Posted on April 25, 2016

The DEMAND PhD Pre-Conference workshop 2016 served as an introduction to DEMAND and its approach, allowing for PhD students studying energy demand (in relation to practice) to meet one another and share ideas before joining the main conference.  The workshop included not only interesting presentations from Elizabeth Shove (DEMAND Director), Sarah Royston (Research Fellow) and Jan…

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Trends in car clubs and shared transport and future demands for energy and mobility. Kate Gifford

Posted on March 17, 2016

As discussed at a previous DEMAND seminar with CIE-MAP, reducing energy demanded by mobility will increasingly require a reduction in the numbers of vehicles in circulation.  Car clubs are one route to achieve this where members sign up to access to a vehicle for round trip or one way trips. However, different opportunities exist; OLEV has recently announced funding of Go Ultra Low Cities,…

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