Theme Lead
University of Sussex
Prof. Tim Foxon is Professor of Sustainability Transitions at SPRU (Science Policy Research Unit). His research explores technological and social factors relating to the innovation of new energy technologies, the co-evolution of technologies and institutions for a transition to a sustainable low carbon economy, and relations and interdependencies between energy use and economic growth.
He co-leads the Digital Society theme of CREDS, where he is leading research on future impacts of ICTs on energy consumption and energy productivity, and use of ICTs for new energy service business models.
His other current research focuses on low carbon industrial strategy, reorienting investments and divesting from fossil fuels, and the relations between energy use and economic growth.
His new book Energy and Economic Growth: Why we need a new pathway to prosperity was published by Routledge in 2017.
Digital Society
- Anticipating future impacts of ICTs on energy consumption
- Sharing economy digital platforms
- Business models in the digital society
Publications
- Local Green New Deals: A transformative plan for achieving the UK’s climate, social and economic goals locally
- The impact of teleworking on domestic energy use and carbon emissions: An assessment for England
- The Green New Deal: Historical insights and local prospects in the United Kingdom (UK)
- Drivers and effects of digitalization on energy demand in low carbon scenarios
- The energy use implications of 5G: Reviewing whole network operational energy, embodied energy, and indirect effects
- The role of digitalisation in low carbon scenarios
- Borrowing, energy demand and Covid: a model for disruption
- Beware the value gap: Creating value for users and for the system through innovation in digital energy services business models
- What structural change is needed for a post-growth economy: A framework of analysis and empirical evidence
- Consumers or users? The impact of user learning about smart hybrid heat pumps on policy trajectories for heat decarbonisation
- Innovation Forums to tackle the climate emergency
- Reframing policy for the energy efficiency challenge: Insights from housing retrofits in the United Kingdom
- Structural change for a post-growth economy: Investigating the relationship between embodied energy intensity and labour productivity
- Digital energy services: climbing the Innovation Ladder
- Shifting the focus: 1 Introduction: why energy demand is important to a low carbon transition
- Transitions in energy efficiency and demand
- Exergy economics – new insights into energy consumption and economic growth
- Untangling the drivers of energy reduction in the UK productive sectors: Efficiency or offshoring?
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