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Blog
- A New Green Shovel? Options for the transport stimulus package
- All crises are not made equal: what does Covid19 tell us about the public’s capacity to change behaviour?
- Black Friday is not a Friday for the Future
- Building Renovation Passports
- Building tools to make transport research cheaper and easier
- Bursting the bubble?
- Challenging consumption to cut carbon footprints
- Climate strikes: the challenge to research
- Closing the policy gap: Reflecting on a research project with the Climate Change Committee
- Conceptualising Demand: A distinctive approach to consumption and practice
- COVID-19 restrictions are a way of life for many vulnerable people
- Covid-19, the built environment, and inequalities
- CREDS at ECEEE Summer Study
- Cumbria mine: is there a technical need for new coal mines in the UK?
- Curbing flying for climate reasons – is it reasonable?
- Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
- Decarbonising Heating in Homes – Can the UK Parliamentary Committee for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy make progress?
- Decarbonising Scottish heat demand: implications for electricity networks
- Don’t throw money for heat decarbonisation out of the window
- Energy efficiency in buildings: interview with Cliff Elwell
- Energy trading board game (online and easy-to-print)
- Equality, diversity and inclusion in CREDS – our first report
- Evaluation in a time of emergency
- Fake news: some days wind and solar deliver more than half our energy needs
- Getting home insulation right
- Government, policy and impact in CREDS
- Greening homes: Turning round the construction supertanker
- Home Futures & Living with Buildings
- How energy transitions revolutionised lives and now make it so hard to deal with climate change
- How fair is flexibility?
- Identifying the vulnerable: energy and transport poverty and beyond
- Impact, what impact?
- Interview with Greg Marsden
- Interview with Jacopo Torriti
- Interview with Mari Martiskainen
- Interview with Professor John Barrett
- IPCC report: Energy demand can help meet 1.5°C challenge while also delivering wellbeing & ecosystem benefits
- It’s time to stop talking about targets and instead talk about governance
- Living in an EcoHome
- Lockdown lifestyle: does working from home reduce carbon emissions?
- Love thy neighbour? Maybe you should be able to sell them thine energy
- More and better homes – the opportunity of self build
- Net-zero carbon and transport
- New challenges for energy demand research
- New retrofit standards, new roles, existing policy, do they all fit together?
- Notes from a post COVID-19 Milton Keynes: concrete cows, roundabouts & warehouses
- Parents, preeners, pets and pipes: what motivates heating decisions?
- Product energy efficiency: now we can do anything, what should we do next?
- Rearranging elephants on the Titanic – Jillian Anable’s keynote presentation from UTSG Annual Conference
- Recovery from the Coronovirus Crisis: Opportunity or threat to low carbon transport policy?
- Reducing energy demand from non-domestic buildings (part 1)
- Reflections on Steph Parker’s webinar: Making government policy: what does a Policy Professional do?
- Research rigour, transparency, and reproducibility in energy research
- Response to Committee on Climate Change report, UK housing: Fit for the future?
- Supporting SMEs to build back better
- Sustainable Built Environment Conference, Cardiff: Policy principles and Scottish reels
- Taking stock of the role for local action on clean energy in the UK’s decarbonisation efforts
- The changing use of energy efficient technologies – reflections from ECEEE Summer Study
- The fixity of flexibility
- The gaping hole in energy policy
- The secret life of boilers – how your boiler misbehaves
- The secret life of boilers – part two: how to burn less natural gas at home
- The UK Government’s Ten Point Plan for a green industrial revolution
- Thinking about stakeholder engagement: how to make it different and how to make it work
- Time, flexibility and energy demand – postcards from a workshop
- UK Climate Assembly findings: this crisis needs leadership
- Visions and fantasies of the sustainable future – how to understand narratives of the low carbon transition
- What we do
- Why ‘rebound effects’ may cut energy savings in half
- Why energy efficient buildings should be a top climate policy priority
- Why isn’t cutting demand at the heart of our energy policy?
- Why supporting tourism doesn’t mean supporting airport expansion
- Widespread benefits of rapid UK building retrofit
- You can’t always get what you want: a reflection on Climate Assembly UK’s deliberations on decarbonising passenger transport
Buildings & Energy
- CoCo Hybrid Project
- Comfort & control
- Demand Side Management (DSM) availability baseline
- DeViz (Defect visualisation via thermography)
- Energy efficiency and resiliency for power supply
- Future building energy & power demand pathways
- Health & energy efficiency
- In-use energy performance certificates (EPCs)
Decarbonisation
- Development of energy system models to improve treatment of energy system architecture
- Evaluation of social, regulatory and governance implications of findings
- Review of existing modelling proposals for heat decarbonisation
Digital Society
- Anticipating future impacts of ICTs on energy consumption
- Business models in the digital society
- Diffusion of smart meters
- Expectations for automated vehicles (AVs)
- Historical impacts of ICTs
- ICT energy consumption evidence
- Impact of 5G technology
- Sharing economy digital platforms
- Social entrepreneurship at the grid edge
- Telecommuting and UK energy demand
- User perceptions of smart homes
Early Career Researchers
- Early Career Researchers Funding Call
- Funding landscape for Early Career Researchers
- How to prepare a Pathways to Impact statement
- The long and winding road of research funding
EDRN
- Active Building Centre
- Advanced building façade design for optimal delivery of end use energy demand
- BREIN-STORM
- Building as a Power Plant
- CAST
- CIE-MAP EUED Centre
- ELEVATE
- Energy Data Task Force
- EnergyREV
- Flexibility: past, present and future
- Flexible Integrated Energy Systems – FLEXIS
- FlexTECC: Flexible Timing of Energy Consumption in Communities
- LoT-NET
- Measuring and Evaluating Time-use and Electricity-use Relationships (METER)
- Micro:bit schools energy management platform
- Mobilising finance for green investments
- National Centre for Energy Systems Integration
- REDPeAK
- SILCI – Social Influence & disruptive Low Carbon Innovation
- SPECIFIC IKC
- Turbines for Heat Recovery and low-Carbon Power
- UK Housing Stock Decarbonisation
- UKERC Energy Data Centre
- Welfare, Employment and Energy Demand
EDRN resources
- Energy Demand Research Network – first meeting
- Event report: How might our research have greater real-world impact?
- Influencing the Sixth Carbon Budget: a how to guide
Energy demand call
- Challenge 1: Decarbonisation of heat
- CREDS Statement on EUED Technology Call
- CREDS Statement on EUED Technology Call 2
- Theme 1: Buildings & Energy
- Theme 2: Transport & Mobility
- Theme 3: Materials & Products
- Theme 4: Flexibility
- Theme 5: Digital Society
- Theme 6: Policy & Governance
Events
- CREDS autumn webinar series
- Long-distance travel, social change and climate change: troubles ahead?
- Meeting the UK’s energy demand challenge
- Webinar: How to influence the Sixth Carbon Budget
FAIR
- Designing pro-poor and ‘energy just’ policy mechanisms
- Identifying poverty and vulnerabilities: who, where and why?
- Synthesising an energy justice and vulnerability framework
- Visualising and mapping vulnerabilities
Featured work
- COVID-19 energy use
- Decarbonising local transport – help for local authorities
- Our response to the Clean Growth Strategy
Flexibility
- Conceptualising flexibility
- Flexibility of demand-side technologies
- Flexibility: past, present, future
- Measuring flexibility in the timing of electricity demand
- Price & time elasticity
- Time dependence & institutional flexibility
- Using electric vehicles as distributed energy storage systems
Materials & Products
- Assessment of the industrial strategy
- Construction industry energy reduction pathway
- Energy Demand reduction options
- Improving the MARCO-UK Model
- Industrial energy demand projection improvements
- Integrating mitigation options into MARCO-UK
- Lifecycle energy demand and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction options
- Monitoring resource productivity impacts on energy demand
- Stock dynamics and material flows
News
- 3D stock modelling
- A data strategy to promote the clean growth of UK industries
- A walk in the park: has the Covid-19 travel response opened the door to a new direction on climate policy?
- Adrian Gault named OBE in New Year Honours list
- Building sector emissions hit record high, but low-carbon pandemic recovery can help transform sector – UN report
- Call for evidence into the Government’s approach to delivering energy efficiency improvements to buildings
- CREDS contributes to new ESRC report
- CREDS Director Nick Eyre appointed as scientific advisor to Oxford City Council
- CREDS funds new £1.26M study to explore decarbonising the steel industry
- CREDS launches first major report – Shifting the focus: energy demand in a net-zero carbon UK
- CREDS research is helping to plan London-wide energy efficiency re-furbishment
- CREDS researchers win CIBSE Napier Shaw Bronze Medal
- CREDS supports global report on buildings and construction launched at COP25
- CREDS turns one: a year of shifting the focus towards energy demand
- CREDS welcomes Citizens’ Assembly ideas for a net-zero carbon economy
- CREDS’ response to the Committee on Climate Change’s recommendations for the UK’s sixth carbon budget
- Delivering a net zero NHS
- Developing a pathway for construction professionals to meet net-zero target
- e-bikes could slash transport emissions and get Britons back to work
- Early Career Researcher Call: Successful projects
- Efficient World Scenario and 3rd IEA Global Conference on Energy Efficiency
- Eight exciting new ECR projects from the CREDS Flexible Fund
- End use energy demand research projects funding call
- End Use Energy Demand Technology Call 2
- Ending the daily work commute may not cut energy usage as much as one might hope
- Ending the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars and vans
- Energy Demand Funding Call
- Energy Demand Networking Hub
- Energy efficiency schemes for small and medium sized businesses: consultation response
- Energy Performance Certificates in buildings: consultation response
- Five CREDS members to advise the UK’s first nationwide citizens’ assembly on climate change
- Flexibility capital and justice in smart energy systems – reading room four
- Forms of adaptation & their limits – our third flexibility reading room
- Global CREDS study uncovers best ways to change consumption to cut carbon footprint
- Health benefits of policies to reduce carbon emissions
- Health implications of climate change presented by CREDS researcher to the Science and Technology Committee
- Health inequalities & climate change assessed together for equitable green recovery
- How does energy research have to change during a climate emergency?
- Influencing the Sixth Carbon Budget: a how to guide
- Jacopo’s new book: Appraising the Economics of Smart Meters
- Launch of the CREDS’ Visitors: International Programme (VIP)
- Make fun of your research
- Making our homes net-zero
- Managing resources sustainably is key to cutting UK greenhouse gases
- Online reading room explores temporal aspects of energy demand
- Our response to the government’s 10-point plan for a ‘Green Industrial Revolution’
- Positive meeting with Minister of State at the Department for Transport
- Professor Jacopo Torriti and Professor John Barrett appointed by Defra to Resources and Waste Targets Expert Group
- Professor Jacopo Torriti’s inaugural lecture is available to watch now
- Queen’s birthday honours for CREDS researcher Janette Webb
- Seasonality – our second flexibility reading room
- Shared mobility – where now, where next?
- Special collection of papers on occupant behaviour in buildings
- Tadj Oreszczyn speaking at London launch of Lancet Countdown 2019 report
- Technologies for meeting Clean Growth emissions reduction targets inquiry: consultation response
- The GLA launches the London Building Stock Model, built by the UCL Energy Institute
- The GLA launches the London Solar Opportunity Map, created by the UCL Energy Institute
- Updated guidance for Early Career Researchers Funding Call
- Weekend two of Climate Assembly UK: CREDS presenters take part in all groups
Policy & Governance
- Adding another layer? A future for clothing in heat demand reduction and decarbonisation
- Deep refurbishment of buildings
- Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) as a disrupter of retail markets
- Drivers of policy asymmetry
- Multi-level Governance
- Old for new? Mapping skills and communication networks for local traditional and off-site modular building energy retrofit
- Policies for engagement
- Policy asymmetry in market design
Project activity
- Commission on Travel Demand Shared Mobility Inquiry: Call for evidence
- Commission on Travel Demand Shared Mobility Inquiry: Evidence Session 1
- Commission on Travel Demand Shared Mobility Inquiry: Evidence Session 2
- Commission on Travel Demand Shared Mobility Inquiry: Evidence Session 3
- Commission on Travel Demand Shared Mobility Inquiry: Evidence Session 4
- Commission on Travel Demand Team
- Dematerialisation and sharing of goods
- Digital energy services: climbing the Innovation Ladder
- Energy & Society Conference Notes
- Energy System Architecture (ESA) concept developed
- EV01 – Transport for West Midlands
- EV02 – Liftshare
- EV03 – Urban Mobility Partnership
- EV04 – Community Transport Association
- EV05 – CoMoUK
- EV06 – Department for Transport
- EV07 – Enterprise Holdings
- EV08 – David McKenna
- EV09 – Beate Kubitz
- Exploring excess – the other end of the sufficiency debate
- First stage of this research – expert interviews and site visits
- Fuel Switching on the Isle of Man
- Histories of Flexibility – A Special Issue of the Journal of Energy History
- Nature Energy news and views article from Mike Fell
- Progress update
- Regulating new electricity markets: UK and French expectations for self-consumption and peer-to-peer energy trading
- Report – Trading sunlight: prospects for peer to peer energy trading in the UK solar industry
- Review protocol for identifying evidence on social impacts of block-enabled peer-to-peer energy trading
- Scoping note: Reviewing the evidence on ICTs and energy consumption
- Social impacts of a move towards blockchain-enabled peer-to-peer energy trading
- Social impacts of peer-to-peer energy trading: a rapid realist review protocol
- The Lost Generation: System Resilience and Flexibility
Transcriptions
- Transcript: Conceptualising flexibility: Challenging representations of time and society in the energy sector
- Transcript: Flexibility capital and justice in smart energy systems
- Transcript: Forms of adaptation & their limits – online reading room
- Transcript: Seasonality – online reading room
- Transcripts: Shifting the focus video highlights
Transport & Mobility
- Commission on Travel Demand
- Decarbonisation of coastal shipping
- Facilitating policy change for low carbon mobility
- Flexing passenger mobility
- High energy consumers
- Long distance travel
- Modelling flexibility over time, mode, place
- The governance of radical mobility change
Publications
- ‘Disruption’ and ‘continuity’ in transport energy systems: the case of the ban on new conventional fossil fuel vehicles
- 2018 Global Status Report: towards a zero‐emission, efficient and resilient buildings and construction sector
- A data strategy to promote the clean growth of UK industries
- A high-resolution spatio-temporal energy demand simulation to explore the potential of heating demand side management with large-scale heat pump diffusion
- A reform agenda for UK construction education and practice
- A systematic review of the evidence on plug-in electric vehicle user experience
- A week in the life of a car: a nuanced view of possible EV charging regimes
- An energy leap? Business model innovation and intermediation in the ‘Energiesprong’ retrofit initiative
- An estimation of different minimum exergy return ratios required for society
- At a crossroads: Travel adaptations during Covid-19 restrictions and where next?
- Australian non-domestic buildings policy as an international exemplar
- Autonomous vehicles and the future of urban tourism
- BEIS consultation: Energy-related products
- BEIS select committee inquiry on financing energy infrastructure: consultation response
- Beyond climate, culture and comfort in European preferences for low-carbon heat
- Briefing: Industrial decarbonisation policies for a UK net zero target
- Building decarbonisation transition pathways
- Building stock energy modelling in the UK: the 3DStock method and the London Building Stock Model
- Building stock modelling and the relationship between density and energy use
- Call for evidence: All-Party Parliamentary Group on Diversity and Inclusion in STEM
- Call for evidence: House of Commons Transport Committee inquiry on zero emissions vehicles and road pricing
- Capturing the distributional impacts of long-term low-carbon transitions
- Caveats for policy development when combining energy ratings, national buildings energy models and empirical statistics
- Conceptualising flexibility: Challenging representations of time and society in the energy sector
- Conceptualising urban density, energy demand and social practice
- Consultation on sustainable tourism: impacts of tourism and travel on the environment and how these can be reduced
- Consultation on the Fuel Poverty Strategy for England
- Consultation: connecting Oxford consultation
- Consultation: developing a national food strategy – call for evidence
- Consultation: facilitating energy efficiency in the electricity system
- Consultation: Future Homes Standard – changes to Part L and Part F of the Building Regulations for new dwellings
- Consultation: Future support for low carbon heat
- Consumer demand for blockchain-enabled peer-to-peer electricity trading in the united kingdom: an online survey experiment
- Consumers or users? The impact of user learning about smart hybrid heat pumps on policy trajectories for heat decarbonisation
- Creating a clean steel fund: call for evidence
- CREDS Annual Report: April 2018–September 2019
- CREDS Annual Report: October 2019 to September 2020
- Critically reviewing smart home technology applications and business models in Europe
- Culture and low-carbon energy transitions
- Decarbonising transport: Accelerating the uptake of electric vehicles
- Decarbonising transport: Climate smart parking policies
- Decarbonising transport: Getting carbon ambition right
- Decarbonising transport: Growing cycle use
- Decarbonising transport: The role of buses
- Decarbonising transport: The role of land use, localisation and accessibility
- Decarbonising transport: Travelling less and the role of online opportunities
- Deep retrofit approaches: managing risks to minimise the energy performance gap
- DfT Consultation – ending the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars and vans
- Digitalisation of goods: a systematic review of the determinants and magnitude of the impacts on energy consumption
- e-bike carbon savings – how much and where?
- Ecology of heat pump performance: A socio-technical analysis
- Effect of boiler oversizing on efficiency: a dynamic simulation study
- Energy demand in the energy transition
- Energy efficiency and economy-wide rebound effects: a review of the evidence and its implications
- Energy efficiency in the energy transition
- Energy Networks Association – Flexibility Consultation 2020
- Energy use intensities in London houses
- Environmental Audit Committee – technological innovation & climate change: heat pumps
- Environmental Audit Committee (House of Commons) inquiry on energy efficiency of existing homes
- Equality, diversity and inclusion report 2020
- Evaluation in an emergency: Assessing transformative energy policy amidst the climate crisis
- Evaluation report: CREDS early career researcher Flexible Fund call
- Excess? Exploring social, structural and behavioural drivers of energy demand in areas of high combined energy consumption
- Exergy economics – new insights into energy consumption and economic growth
- Exploring socioeconomic and temporal characteristics of British and German residential energy demand
- Exploring the role of failure in socio-technical transitions research
- Flexibility capital and flexibility justice in smart energy systems
- Flexible and responsive energy retail markets: putting consumers at the centre of a smart, low carbon energy system
- From thermal comfort to conflict: The contested control and usage of domestic smart heating in the United Kingdom
- Further reflections on vulnerability and resistance in the United Kingdom’s smart meter transition
- Future of transport regulatory review
- Happier with less? Members of European environmental grassroots initiatives reconcile lower carbon footprints with higher life satisfaction and income increases
- Heat decarbonisation modelling approaches in the UK: An energy system architecture perspective
- Heating systems through the lens of the boiler: Detailed case studies to inform current and future heating system design
- Home energy efficiency and radon: An observational study
- Hot transformations: Governing rapid and deep household heating transitions in China, Denmark, Finland and the United Kingdom
- Hot weather and residential hourly electricity demand in Italy
- House of Commons BEIS Select Committee inquiry – decarbonising heat in homes
- Household electricity demand, the intrinsic flexibility index and UK wholesale electricity market prices
- Humanizing heat as a service: Cost, creature comforts and the diversity of smart heating practices in the United Kingdom
- Imagining sustainable energy and mobility transitions: Valence, temporality, and radicalism in 38 visions of a low-carbon future
- Improving energy research practices: guidance for transparency, reproducibility and quality
- Industrial decarbonisation policies for a UK net zero target
- Innovation in deep housing retrofit in the United Kingdom: The role of situated creativity in transforming practice
- International Energy Agency Market Report Series – Energy Efficiency 2018: Analysis and outlook to 2040
- It’s only a matter of time: Flexibility, activities and time of use tariffs in the United Kingdom
- Lost generation: System resilience and flexibility
- Make fun of your research
- Making demand side response happen: A review of barriers in commercial and public organisations
- Making efficiency pay
- Mobility, food and housing: responsibility, individual consumption and demand-side policies in European deep decarbonisation pathways
- Modelling London’s building stock and its associated energy use
- New dimensions of vulnerability to energy and transport poverty
- Of emergence, diffusion and impact: A socio-technical perspective on researching energy demand
- Policy for energy demand reduction
- Possible future impacts of elevated levels of atmospheric CO2 on human cognitive performance and on the design and operation of ventilation systems in buildings
- Quantifying the potential for climate change mitigation of consumption options
- Reaching a 1.5°C target: socio-technical challenges for a rapid transition to low-carbon electricity systems
- Rebound effects for household energy services in the UK
- Reframing policy for the energy efficiency challenge: Insights from housing retrofits in the United Kingdom
- Report: At a crossroads – Travel adaptations during Covid-19 restrictions and where next?
- Residential retrofit in the climate emergency: the role of metrics
- Resource efficiency scenarios for the UK: A technical report
- Scottish Government consultation on Energy Efficient Scotland proposals: consultation response
- Shared mobility – where now, where next? Second report of the Commission on Travel Demand
- Shifting the focus: energy demand in a net-zero carbon UK
- Smart home technologies in Europe: A critical review of concepts, benefits, risks and policies
- Social innovation in the shadow of policy failure: Energy efficiency in self-build housing
- Structural change for a post-growth economy: Investigating the relationship between embodied energy intensity and labour productivity
- Temporality, vulnerability, and energy justice in household low carbon innovations
- Testing smarter control and feedback with users: Time, temperature and space in household heating preferences and practices in a Living Laboratory
- The environmental impact of green consumption and sufficiency lifestyles scenarios in Europe: connecting local sustainability visions to global consequences
- The history of heat-as-a-service for promoting domestic demand-side flexibility: lessons from the case of budget warmth
- The limits of energy sufficiency: A review of the evidence for rebound effects and negative spillovers from behavioural change
- The methodologies, geographies, and technologies of energy justice: A systematic and comparative review
- The rebound effect and the Jevons’ Paradox: beyond the conventional wisdom
- The relationship between airtightness and ventilation in new UK dwellings
- The remaining potential for energy savings in UK households
- The time dimension in deep renovation: evidence and analysis from across the EU
- The transition from a fossil-fuel economy to a knowledge economy
- The unequal distribution of household carbon footprints in Europe and its link to sustainability
- Thermodynamic efficiency gains and their role as a key ‘engine of economic growth’
- Thirty years of climate mitigation: lessons from the 1989 options appraisal for the UK
- Time to rethink energy research
- Transitions in energy efficiency and demand
- Using neural networks to model long-term dependencies in occupancy behaviour
- Validity of energy social research during and after COVID-19: challenges, considerations, and responses
- Vulnerability to fuel and transport poverty
- Vulnerability to motor fuel price increases: socio-spatial patterns in England
- What do empirical findings reveal about modelled energy demand and energy ratings? Comparisons of gas consumption across the English residential sector
- What structural change is needed for a post-growth economy: A framework of analysis and empirical evidence
- Why & how energy efficiency policy should address SMEs
- Worth the risk? An evaluation of alternative finance mechanisms for residential retrofit
- Zero carbon economy: consultation response