energy demand

Working paper 18: The Dynamics of Demand: thinking about steering

Posted on April 28, 2016

Working Paper 18: Louise Reardon, Greg Marsden and Elizabeth Shove, April 2016. This was a discussion paper for participants in the change and steering stream of the DEMAND conference, April 2016  

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Working paper 17: The Dynamics of Demand: methods and concepts for thinking about change

Posted on April 28, 2016

Working Paper 17: Stanley Blue, Janine Morley, Greg Marsden and Elizabeth Shove, April 2016. This was a discussion paper for participants in the change and steering stream of the DEMAND conference, April 2016

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

Posted on December 2, 2014

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

Posted on November 9, 2014

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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