Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC)

🤔How do UK citizens value reducing energy demand in relation to their well-being? In this paper, Tim Foxon, Donal Brown, Marie Claire Brisbois and Gerardo A. Torres Contreras show that people highly value the co-benefits of energy-saving, suggesting that policy should consider these factors to support a shift toward a 'wellbeing economy' in energy decisions🌍💡 Read the paper here: https://lnkd.in/dDXVr7KB

📑In her new paper, Manon Burbidge proposes an explanatory framework towards understanding the drivers of energy issues experienced by refugee communities living in the UK, examining how hostile environment asylum approaches and neoliberal housing policy combine to produce poverty and vulnerability for those seeking sanctuary. 👉 Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/dFwyRdw3 Co-authors: Stefan Bouzarovski, Karen Lucas and Saskia Warren

👏 Congratulations to Stefan Bouzarovski, co-author of the chapter "Rethink Energy System Models to Support Interdisciplinary and Inclusive Just Transition Debates" in the new open access book "Strengthening European Climate Policy: Governance Recommendations from Innovative Interdisciplinary Collaborations." The book provides 10 key policy recommendations to strengthen European climate policies. 📖 Read the chapter here: https://lnkd.in/drUFCZyQ 📅 The book will be presented today, Tuesday 22nd October at 4:30pm in a hybrid launch and panel discussion event! Register here: https://lnkd.in/eHUi6mPC SSH CENTRE

👏 Congratulations to Faye Wade, co-author of the chapter "Support Place-Based and Inclusive Supply Chain, Employment and Skills Strategies for Housing-Energy Retrofit" in the new open access book "Strengthening European Climate Policy: Governance Recommendations from Innovative Interdisciplinary Collaborations." The book provides 10 key policy recommendations to strengthen European climate policies. 📖 Read the chapter here: https://lnkd.in/gZ4PEQwv 📅 The book will be presented tomorrow, Tuesday 22nd October at 4:30pm in a hybrid launch and panel discussion event. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eHUi6mPC SSH CENTRE

A good week for our research group with Manon Burbidge publishing the first paper from her PhD on housing, asylum and energy deprivation among refugee communities - a topic that has received almost no attention to date. Congratulations, Manon for this excellent paper (in a top housing journal no less)! ⭐️👏 Grateful to co-supervisors Karen Lucas and Saskia Warren for their collaboration on this project as well as the Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC) for their support.

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🤔 Are you involved in the energy sector but not an expert in GB power systems? We’ve got the perfect resource for you! 💡 ⚡ Meysam Qadrdan's Flexibility Factsheets are designed to help researchers and stakeholders gain a clearer understanding of the diverse range of flexibility services offered by the National Grid Electricity System Operator (NGESO). 👉 Check them out here: https://lnkd.in/ddJH-YmA UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC)

"Universal warmth: The case for protecting energy as a basic right" A recent Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC) blog by Madeleine Pauker (PhD Researcher at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) in the Business School) discusses the recent policy shift towards more targeted winter fuel payments. The blog builds on another blog by Professor Gesche Huebner, which advocates for an equity-driven approach, where universal programmes are scrapped in favour of targeted support to those who need it most. Read the full blog: https://lnkd.in/e6_t9YNe #Energy #Research #Policy

Spreading out the demand for energy across the day and minimising peak time demand is becoming increasingly important for managing the grid. Many flexibility services reward customers for reducing their energy consumption during peak times. But will this work for everyone? We wanted to better understand how prepayment customers - often more likely to be on low incomes, renting, elderly, or disabled - experience flexibility services. We worked with energy supplier Utilita Energy to conduct interviews with smart prepayment meter customers. We found that: 💰Financial savings were the main motivation for participation in Power Payback events, and people valued even small savings. 👶Household make-up played a big role in flexibility, with larger households having greater potential for savings but facing challenges due to caring responsibilities and established routines. 💡While people appreciated the benefits of Power Payback, including opportunities to learn about energy and have good environmental impacts, there was generally low awareness of its underlying reasons. Read our report and recommendations for future focus on flexibility schemes: https://bit.ly/4dzJ0t6

Happy to see the first report I've worked on at Nesta out today, this one looking at smart prepayment customers' experience of the Demand Flexibility Service. Looking forward to learnings from it on into future work!