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
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.
View full post →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…
View full post →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…
View full post →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…
View full post →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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