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Continuity and Disruption in UK Energy System Change: Mapping Expert Differences – and Understanding their Implications

Mike Kattirtz, University of Edinburgh Energy systems globally are undergoing dramatic changes, and many observers anticipate accelerated changes in the years ...

The role of utilities in enabling prosumers and flexible distributed energy resources

Daniel Quiggin, Chatham House This paper explores how utilities could transform as the electricity system undergoes a second phase of transformations and the b...

BEIS Heat Networks Consumer Survey

Philip Cole, BEIS The Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) are supporing investment in heat networks as a means of decarbonising heatin...

The use of consumer data for optimizing smart grids for electricity and district heating

Carl Dalhammar, Lund University The Smart Cities Accelerator (SCA) project is an InterReg project that involves a number of Swedish and Danish municipalities a...

Experimenting with Heat Plans to discover how to help businesses and governments harness energy services to build an energy system people will want to pay for

Matthew Lipson, Energy Systems Catapult There is a growing consensus that we need to put consumers at the heart of the energy system if we are to transform it ...

Consumers and Citizens: the Political Economy of Nuclear Power

Gordon MacKerron, SPRU, University of Sussex Summary Nuclear power is the most political of energy technologies, and is also of high economic significance, wi...

Identifying the limits of the rebound effect

Tina Fawcett. University of Oxford Delivering energy demand reduction through energy efficiency is probably the single most important strategy in moving to a l...

Motivating energy conservation in organisations: Smart metering and the emergence and diffusion of social norms

Peter Bradley, University of the West of England Around the world there is strong interest in the use of energy feedback via smart metering technology as a mit...

Incentivising households to reduce electricity consumption: A meta-analysis of the experimental evidence

Penelope Buckley, Université Grenoble Alpes With the increasing demand for electricity, the phasing out of what were once guaranteed sources of energy supply,...

Choosing energy efficiency – consumer response to operating costs at the point of sale

Fiona Brocklehurst, Ballarat Consulting Consumers have a big effect on energy use through their choice of the appliances and cars that they buy.  But they may...

Mind the Gaps: How will a consumer-centric energy system affect organisational structures, sector skills and careers in energy?

Peter Stewart, Interfax The proposed dialogue session will discuss the impact of the transition to a consumer-centric on organisational structures, career path...

Causal Tree Estimation of Heterogeneous Household Response to Time-Of-Use Electricity Pricing Schemes

Eoghan O'Neill, University of Cambridge In this paper, we apply some recently developed methods for describing the heterogeneity of treatment effects to an ele...
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