Rhythmanalysis with Transport for London, 21 April 2016

Posted on April 21, 2016

On 21 April, Elizabeth met up with Clare Sheffield and colleagues at TfL for a workshop based on the DEMAND summer school event - on peaks, sites and cycles - which Nicola Spurling had designed. After a talk introducing some ideas about timing, infrastructures and practices - and some discussion of peaks, societal synchronisation, duration, sequence and flexibility - small groups of TfLers…

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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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What do we actually know about household electricity use? Phillip Grunewald

Posted on February 29, 2016

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…

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Linkages between materials, energy and economy: production and consumption changes for a low material and carbon future, John Barrett

Posted on February 12, 2016

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…

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Working paper 16: Fuel Poverty Policy and Non-Heating Energy Uses

Posted on January 26, 2016

DEMAND working paper 16 Neil Simcock and Gordon Walker (April 2016) Fuel Poverty Policy and Non-Heating Energy Uses

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