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- CREDS | Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions
- Decarbonisation of heat
- Decarbonisation of heat findings report
- Decarbonisation of the steel industry
- Decarbonisation of the steel industry: findings report
- Demand flexibility
- Digital Society
- Digital Society findings report
- Digitalisation
- Energy systems
- Energy use in a net-zero UK – lessons from lockdown
- Engaging people
- Equity in the zero-carbon energy transition
- Flexibility
- Flexibility findings report
- Fuel and transport poverty in the UK: findings report
- Fuel and transport poverty in the UK’s energy transition (FAIR)
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- Learning from the pandemic
- Local action
- Materials & Products
- Materials & products: findings report
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- People quick list
- Place-based carbon calculator launch
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- Policy & governance findings report
- Privacy policy
- Shared stories – the Amplify project
- Supporting research
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- The energy affordability and security crisis
- The potential for reducing energy demand
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- Transport & Mobility
- Transport & Mobility findings report
- Transport and mobility
- Visitors: International Programme (VIP)
- Webinar Q&A
- What is Energy Demand?
Blog
- A cross-country comparative analysis of low energy demand scenarios in Europe
- 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?
- Auditing energy models
- Aviation’s non-CO2 climate impacts
- Behaviour change and travel demand reduction – the Lords are listening?
- Behaviour change: in our hands?
- Beyond carbon: Ecosystem service implications of low energy demand pathways
- Black Friday is not a Friday for the Future
- Blackouts and the common good
- Bottlenecks and barriers to delivering net-zero: Recapping the discussion at the ECR net-zero conference
- Building Renovation Passports
- Building tools to make transport research cheaper and easier
- Bursting the bubble?
- Can household heating be more flex-friendly and keep occupants cosy?
- Challenging consumption to cut carbon footprints
- Changing our way of living – why and how?
- City deals & climate action
- Climate strikes: the challenge to research
- Closing the policy gap: Reflecting on a research project with the Climate Change Committee
- Co-benefits of energy demand reduction are much broader than health
- Conceptualising Demand: A distinctive approach to consumption and practice
- Connecting daily, weekly and annual activity patterns
- Connecting energy researchers with policymakers
- Cost of living crisis and the PBCC
- COVID-19 restrictions are a way of life for many vulnerable people
- Covid-19 transport, travel and social adaptation study webinar
- Covid-19, the built environment, and inequalities
- CREDS at ECEEE Summer Study
- CREDS in Celebration – a taster to whet your appetite
- CREDS in Celebration event
- CREDS in conversation
- CREDS in Conversation – Engaging our international audience through podcasts
- 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
- Cynical hats off, Christmas hats on
- 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
- Decarbonising UK shipping and land energy demand
- Designing net-zero energy systems
- Do teleworkers travel less? The challenge of tele-sprawl
- Don’t throw money for heat decarbonisation out of the window
- Energy consumption, wellbeing, and the challenge of identifying our core power capacity requirements
- Energy demand reduction is not ‘nanny state’ governance. It’s sensible, strategic and consistent climate policy
- Energy efficiency in buildings: interview with Cliff Elwell
- Energy injustice and Ethnic Minorities in the United Kingdom
- Energy trading board game (online and easy-to-print)
- Energy-demand-reducing measures can play a major role in helping the economy to bounce-back from the long-term impacts of Covid-19
- Engaging audiences with your research: principles for effective communication
- Equality, diversity and inclusion in CREDS – our first report
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Podcast
- Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Energy
- Evaluating the energy trilemma in future decarbonised-decentralised electricity systems
- Evaluating the impact of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) research
- Evaluation in a time of emergency
- Excess energy consumption – is it reasonable to put a limit on how much energy we use?
- Fake news: some days wind and solar deliver more than half our energy needs
- Feedback on the Amplify Project, our anti-bullying forum
- Flexible working: A great opportunity to improve our home-office environment and increase multiple benefits
- Four things we learned at the BEHAVE23 Conference
- Generating Mobility Futures
- Getting home insulation right
- Government, policy and impact in CREDS
- Greening homes: Turning round the construction supertanker
- Home Futures & Living with Buildings
- How central is central heating? The cost-of-living crisis and changes in thermal comfort at home
- How energy transitions revolutionised lives and now make it so hard to deal with climate change
- How fair is flexibility?
- How much does a developed country need to consume to secure a high quality of life?
- How to tackle car inequalities fairly?
- Identifying the vulnerable: energy and transport poverty and beyond
- Impact, what impact?
- Improving data sharing in energy consortia
- 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
- Lessons from lockdown: how we adapted and changed our energy consumption patterns during the pandemic
- Life on a cargo bike
- Living in an EcoHome
- Lockdown lifestyle: does working from home reduce carbon emissions?
- Long run trends in ICT demand and its impact on energy consumption
- Love thy neighbour? Maybe you should be able to sell them thine energy
- Low income and living in a rural area increases the risk of double energy vulnerability
- Make it easy on yourself – use a reporting guideline
- More and better homes – the opportunity of self build
- Navigating knowledge exchange and research impact as an early career researcher
- Net-zero carbon and transport
- New challenges for energy demand research
- New funding announced 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
- On 1.5 degrees C…
- Online portal for visualising the impact of everyday actions on our demand for energy
- Parents, preeners, pets and pipes: what motivates heating decisions?
- Peer-to-peer energy: lucky for some?
- Peer-to-peer energy: what can we learn from more than a decade of Airbnb?
- Planning for economic recovery: The role of Local Green New Deals in a post-Covid era
- Playing with food (policy): The need to rapidly implement a net-zero National Food Strategy
- Podcast: Digitalisation for people and the planet
- Podcast: Price elasticity of energy demand
- Podcast: Realistically radical policy options
- Product energy efficiency: now we can do anything, what should we do next?
- Radical realism: energy policy options for changing times
- Re-thinking the zero carbon energy transition
- 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?
- Richest people in UK ‘use more energy flying’ than poorest do overall
- Riding for the planet (and for a book launch)
- Rishi Sunak’s watering down of net-zero policies in the name of equality and fairness will not help to create a better UK
- Seven reasons global transport is so hard to decarbonise
- Should we worry about the carbon footprint of a website?
- Six ways for Government to make a serious shift to net-zero transport
- SME and sustainability research – the beginning of a new research network?
- Supporting researchers, supporting research: Reflections on the CREDS ECR Flexible Fund Call
- Supporting SMEs to build back better
- Sustainable Built Environment Conference, Cardiff: Policy principles and Scottish reels
- Tackling climate anxiety
- Taking stock of the role for local action on clean energy in the UK’s decarbonisation efforts
- Taking the heat out of thermal defects in buildings
- Telling tales: Communicating UK energy research through fairy tale characters
- The A-Z of excuses for not taking action on the climate
- The chancellor’s new help on energy costs will do nothing to tackle the root causes of the energy bills crisis
- The changing use of energy efficient technologies – reflections from ECEEE Summer Study
- The contribution energy demand reduction could make to tackling the climate emergency
- The final blog: Insights, impact and next steps following five years of CREDS
- The fixity of flexibility
- The gaping hole in energy policy
- The intersections between racial justice and energy demand research
- The place of emotions in motivating domestic energy retrofit
- The power of getting real(ist)
- The Princess and the puffer jacket
- 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
- The urgent need to reduce our energy demand
- Thinking about stakeholder engagement: how to make it different and how to make it work
- Thirty years of UK climate mitigation
- Time for a digital spring clean?
- Time, flexibility and energy demand – postcards from a workshop
- Towards a demand flexibility certificate
- UK Climate Assembly findings: this crisis needs leadership
- Using knowledge exchange to help research make sense
- Visions and fantasies of the sustainable future – how to understand narratives of the low carbon transition
- What role for community in the energy crisis?
- What we do
- Which net-zero policies do people want? Launching the Local Green New Deals report
- Who needs flexibility anyway?
- Why ‘rebound effects’ may cut energy savings in half
- Why any government serious about achieving net-zero needs to focus more on electrically assisted bikes
- Why energy efficient buildings should be a top climate policy priority
- Why is it so hard to engage SMEs on climate change?
- Why isn’t cutting demand at the heart of our energy policy?
- Why leaving climate policy to behaviour change will never be fair
- Why supporting tourism doesn’t mean supporting airport expansion
- Why the ‘Energy Security Strategy’ won’t work
- Why the PM is wrong: we cannot avoid ‘hairshirtism’ because of the technological promises of ‘guilt-free flights’
- Why we built a Place-Based Carbon Calculator
- Widespread benefits of rapid UK building retrofit
- Women in energy
- 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)
Communications & engagement
- CREDS communications strategies
- Digital accessibility
- How to write blogs to communicate your research findings
- Promoting CREDS research
- Quick guide for accessible presentations
- Six ways to increase your impact during a research presentation
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
- Digital twins
- Expectations for automated vehicles (AVs)
- Historical impacts of ICTs
- ICT energy consumption evidence
- Impact of 5G technology
- Place-based business models for net-zero
- Sharing economy digital platforms
- Social entrepreneurship at the grid edge
- Telecommuting and UK energy demand
- User perceptions of smart homes
Early Career Researchers
Equality, diversity and inclusion
- Balance of speakers at CREDS events, 2018 to 2022
- CREDS EDI Survey 2023
- Equality, diversity and inclusion plan
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Podcast
- Feedback on the Amplify Project, our anti-bullying forum
- Guide to racially just energy research
- Inclusive language guide
- Recruitment practice: towards equity in process and outcomes within research
- The EDI cube: A tool for project design, evaluation and teaching
- The intersections between racial justice and energy demand research
- Women in energy
Event management
- Creating a running order for a hybrid event
- Evaluation of hybrid events in CREDS 2023
- Event report: How might our research have greater real-world impact?
- Planning effective, inclusive and sustainable events
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
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
Funding support
- Funding landscape for Early Career Researchers
- How to prepare the impact sections for a proposal
- How to use a flexible fund
- The long and winding road of research funding
Good data practice
- Improving data sharing in energy consortia
- Make it easy on yourself – use a reporting guideline
- TReQ video series (improving the transparency, reproducibility and quality of your research)
Lessons from lockdown
- Commuting and business travel
- Heating and comfort
- Local Green New Deals
- Space, time and infrastructure
Making an impact
- How to embed impact into your research and projects
- How to monitor and record impact
- How to promote research
- How to undertake knowledge exchange
- Navigating knowledge exchange and research impact as an early career researcher
- The research to impact journey
- The research to impact journey: an overview
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
Mid-term review
- CREDS action plan in response to Mid-term review
- CREDS Mid-term review action plan: Delivery status
- CREDS Mid-term review panel report
- CREDS Mid-term review report
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
- Amplify project
- Building on our strengths – retrofit market needs an overhaul to meet climate targets
- Building sector emissions hit record high, but low-carbon pandemic recovery can help transform sector – UN report
- Call for Supervisors for the CREDS Interdisciplinary Energy Demand Studentships
- Carbon taxes could fund free green electricity and public transport
- 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 interdisciplinary energy demand studentships call
- CREDS interdisciplinary energy demand studentships call Q&A
- 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 response to the energy security announcement
- 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
- Developing the next phase of energy demand research
- 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
- 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 flexibility and the rhythms of everyday life
- Energy Demand Networking Hub
- 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
- Global need for cooling to overtake need for heating
- 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?
- Impact of smart meters in improving the performance of energy efficient technologies
- Influencing the Sixth Carbon Budget: a how to guide
- Jacopo’s new book: Appraising the Economics of Smart Meters
- John Barrett receives OBE for services to Climate Change Assessment
- Make fun of your research
- Making our homes net-zero
- Managing resources sustainably is key to cutting UK greenhouse gases
- More evidence needed to establish 5G’s green credentials
- Net zero policies can help tackle poverty and drive economic growth, says new report
- New analysis shows that Department for Transport has quietly rolled back its ambition to introduce cleaner, more efficient road travel
- New book from CREDS researchers: Research Handbook on Energy and Society
- New framework from CREDS shows UK can halve its energy demand by 2050
- New neighbourhood carbon calculator helps communities target action on local emission hotspots
- New research casts doubt on environmental benefits of hybrid working
- New research shows how ambitious energy efficiency targets could be applied to more sectors of the UK economy to accelerate energy independence and climate stability
- Online reading room explores temporal aspects of energy demand
- Our response to the government’s 10-point plan for a ‘Green Industrial Revolution’
- Partnership with Go-Science on positive low energy futures
- 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
- Pros and cons of future large-scale electricity storage options
- Queen’s birthday honours for CREDS researcher Janette Webb
- Reading room five: Space, time and contestations over demand response and infrastructure access
- Rural communities most exposed to risk of energy and transport poverty, new study finds
- Seasonality – our second flexibility reading room
- Shared mobility – where now, where next?
- Simstock: a free and open-source tool for urban-scale building energy modelling
- Special collection of papers on occupant behaviour in buildings
- The energy price crisis – issues for energy use
- 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
- The National Building Database (NBD): a step change in understanding the energy performance of buildings in GB
- The UK can more than halve its energy demand by 2050 and improve quality of life
- Travel resilience lessons from the pandemic. Travelling less could be here to stay finds new study
- UKRI announces the appointment of two new Energy Demand Research Champions
- Weekend two of Climate Assembly UK: CREDS presenters take part in all groups
News & blog
- 3D stock modelling
- A cross-country comparative analysis of low energy demand scenarios in Europe
- A data strategy to promote the clean growth of UK industries
- A New Green Shovel? Options for the transport stimulus package
- 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
- All crises are not made equal: what does Covid19 tell us about the public’s capacity to change behaviour?
- Amplify project
- Auditing energy models
- Aviation’s non-CO2 climate impacts
- Behaviour change and travel demand reduction – the Lords are listening?
- Behaviour change: in our hands?
- Beyond carbon: Ecosystem service implications of low energy demand pathways
- Black Friday is not a Friday for the Future
- Blackouts and the common good
- Bottlenecks and barriers to delivering net-zero: Recapping the discussion at the ECR net-zero conference
- Building on our strengths – retrofit market needs an overhaul to meet climate targets
- Building Renovation Passports
- Building sector emissions hit record high, but low-carbon pandemic recovery can help transform sector – UN report
- Building tools to make transport research cheaper and easier
- Bursting the bubble?
- Call for Supervisors for the CREDS Interdisciplinary Energy Demand Studentships
- Can household heating be more flex-friendly and keep occupants cosy?
- Carbon taxes could fund free green electricity and public transport
- Challenging consumption to cut carbon footprints
- Changing our way of living – why and how?
- City deals & climate action
- Climate strikes: the challenge to research
- Closing the policy gap: Reflecting on a research project with the Climate Change Committee
- Co-benefits of energy demand reduction are much broader than health
- Conceptualising Demand: A distinctive approach to consumption and practice
- Connecting daily, weekly and annual activity patterns
- Connecting energy researchers with policymakers
- Cost of living crisis and the PBCC
- COVID-19 restrictions are a way of life for many vulnerable people
- Covid-19 transport, travel and social adaptation study webinar
- Covid-19, the built environment, and inequalities
- CREDS at ECEEE Summer Study
- 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 in Celebration – a taster to whet your appetite
- CREDS in Celebration event
- CREDS in conversation
- CREDS in Conversation – Engaging our international audience through podcasts
- CREDS interdisciplinary energy demand studentships call
- CREDS interdisciplinary energy demand studentships call Q&A
- 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 response to the energy security announcement
- 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
- 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
- Cynical hats off, Christmas hats on
- 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
- Decarbonising UK shipping and land energy demand
- Delivering a net zero NHS
- Designing net-zero energy systems
- Developing a pathway for construction professionals to meet net-zero target
- Developing the next phase of energy demand research
- Do teleworkers travel less? The challenge of tele-sprawl
- Don’t throw money for heat decarbonisation out of the window
- 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
- 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 consumption, wellbeing, and the challenge of identifying our core power capacity requirements
- Energy demand flexibility and the rhythms of everyday life
- Energy Demand Networking Hub
- Energy demand reduction is not ‘nanny state’ governance. It’s sensible, strategic and consistent climate policy
- Energy efficiency in buildings: interview with Cliff Elwell
- Energy injustice and Ethnic Minorities in the United Kingdom
- Energy trading board game (online and easy-to-print)
- Energy-demand-reducing measures can play a major role in helping the economy to bounce-back from the long-term impacts of Covid-19
- Engaging audiences with your research: principles for effective communication
- Equality, diversity and inclusion in CREDS – our first report
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Podcast
- Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Energy
- Evaluating the energy trilemma in future decarbonised-decentralised electricity systems
- Evaluating the impact of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) research
- Evaluation in a time of emergency
- Excess energy consumption – is it reasonable to put a limit on how much energy we use?
- Fake news: some days wind and solar deliver more than half our energy needs
- Feedback on the Amplify Project, our anti-bullying forum
- 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
- Flexible working: A great opportunity to improve our home-office environment and increase multiple benefits
- Forms of adaptation & their limits – our third flexibility reading room
- Four things we learned at the BEHAVE23 Conference
- Generating Mobility Futures
- Getting home insulation right
- Global CREDS study uncovers best ways to change consumption to cut carbon footprint
- Global need for cooling to overtake need for heating
- Government, policy and impact in CREDS
- Greening homes: Turning round the construction supertanker
- 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
- Home Futures & Living with Buildings
- How central is central heating? The cost-of-living crisis and changes in thermal comfort at home
- How does energy research have to change during a climate emergency?
- How energy transitions revolutionised lives and now make it so hard to deal with climate change
- How fair is flexibility?
- How much does a developed country need to consume to secure a high quality of life?
- How to tackle car inequalities fairly?
- Identifying the vulnerable: energy and transport poverty and beyond
- Impact of smart meters in improving the performance of energy efficient technologies
- Impact, what impact?
- Improving data sharing in energy consortia
- Influencing the Sixth Carbon Budget: a how to guide
- 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
- Jacopo’s new book: Appraising the Economics of Smart Meters
- John Barrett receives OBE for services to Climate Change Assessment
- Lessons from lockdown: how we adapted and changed our energy consumption patterns during the pandemic
- Life on a cargo bike
- Living in an EcoHome
- Lockdown lifestyle: does working from home reduce carbon emissions?
- Long run trends in ICT demand and its impact on energy consumption
- Love thy neighbour? Maybe you should be able to sell them thine energy
- Low income and living in a rural area increases the risk of double energy vulnerability
- Make fun of your research
- Make it easy on yourself – use a reporting guideline
- Making our homes net-zero
- Managing resources sustainably is key to cutting UK greenhouse gases
- More and better homes – the opportunity of self build
- More evidence needed to establish 5G’s green credentials
- Navigating knowledge exchange and research impact as an early career researcher
- Net zero policies can help tackle poverty and drive economic growth, says new report
- Net-zero carbon and transport
- New analysis shows that Department for Transport has quietly rolled back its ambition to introduce cleaner, more efficient road travel
- New book from CREDS researchers: Research Handbook on Energy and Society
- New challenges for energy demand research
- New framework from CREDS shows UK can halve its energy demand by 2050
- New funding announced for energy demand research
- New neighbourhood carbon calculator helps communities target action on local emission hotspots
- New research casts doubt on environmental benefits of hybrid working
- New research shows how ambitious energy efficiency targets could be applied to more sectors of the UK economy to accelerate energy independence and climate stability
- New retrofit standards, new roles, existing policy, do they all fit together?
- Notes from a post COVID-19 Milton Keynes: concrete cows, roundabouts & warehouses
- On 1.5 degrees C…
- Online portal for visualising the impact of everyday actions on our demand for energy
- Online reading room explores temporal aspects of energy demand
- Our response to the government’s 10-point plan for a ‘Green Industrial Revolution’
- Parents, preeners, pets and pipes: what motivates heating decisions?
- Partnership with Go-Science on positive low energy futures
- Peer-to-peer energy: lucky for some?
- Peer-to-peer energy: what can we learn from more than a decade of Airbnb?
- Planning for economic recovery: The role of Local Green New Deals in a post-Covid era
- Playing with food (policy): The need to rapidly implement a net-zero National Food Strategy
- Podcast: Digitalisation for people and the planet
- Podcast: Price elasticity of energy demand
- Podcast: Realistically radical policy options
- Positive meeting with Minister of State at the Department for Transport
- Product energy efficiency: now we can do anything, what should we do next?
- 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
- Pros and cons of future large-scale electricity storage options
- Queen’s birthday honours for CREDS researcher Janette Webb
- Radical realism: energy policy options for changing times
- Re-thinking the zero carbon energy transition
- Reading room five: Space, time and contestations over demand response and infrastructure access
- 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?
- Richest people in UK ‘use more energy flying’ than poorest do overall
- Riding for the planet (and for a book launch)
- Rishi Sunak’s watering down of net-zero policies in the name of equality and fairness will not help to create a better UK
- Rural communities most exposed to risk of energy and transport poverty, new study finds
- Seasonality – our second flexibility reading room
- Seven reasons global transport is so hard to decarbonise
- Shared mobility – where now, where next?
- Should we worry about the carbon footprint of a website?
- Simstock: a free and open-source tool for urban-scale building energy modelling
- Six ways for Government to make a serious shift to net-zero transport
- SME and sustainability research – the beginning of a new research network?
- Special collection of papers on occupant behaviour in buildings
- Supporting researchers, supporting research: Reflections on the CREDS ECR Flexible Fund Call
- Supporting SMEs to build back better
- Sustainable Built Environment Conference, Cardiff: Policy principles and Scottish reels
- Tackling climate anxiety
- Taking stock of the role for local action on clean energy in the UK’s decarbonisation efforts
- Taking the heat out of thermal defects in buildings
- Telling tales: Communicating UK energy research through fairy tale characters
- The A-Z of excuses for not taking action on the climate
- The chancellor’s new help on energy costs will do nothing to tackle the root causes of the energy bills crisis
- The changing use of energy efficient technologies – reflections from ECEEE Summer Study
- The contribution energy demand reduction could make to tackling the climate emergency
- The energy price crisis – issues for energy use
- The final blog: Insights, impact and next steps following five years of CREDS
- The fixity of flexibility
- The gaping hole in energy policy
- 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
- The intersections between racial justice and energy demand research
- The National Building Database (NBD): a step change in understanding the energy performance of buildings in GB
- The place of emotions in motivating domestic energy retrofit
- The power of getting real(ist)
- The Princess and the puffer jacket
- 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 can more than halve its energy demand by 2050 and improve quality of life
- The UK Government’s Ten Point Plan for a green industrial revolution
- The urgent need to reduce our energy demand
- Thinking about stakeholder engagement: how to make it different and how to make it work
- Thirty years of UK climate mitigation
- Time for a digital spring clean?
- Time, flexibility and energy demand – postcards from a workshop
- Towards a demand flexibility certificate
- Travel resilience lessons from the pandemic. Travelling less could be here to stay finds new study
- UK Climate Assembly findings: this crisis needs leadership
- UKRI announces the appointment of two new Energy Demand Research Champions
- Using knowledge exchange to help research make sense
- Visions and fantasies of the sustainable future – how to understand narratives of the low carbon transition
- Weekend two of Climate Assembly UK: CREDS presenters take part in all groups
- What role for community in the energy crisis?
- What we do
- Which net-zero policies do people want? Launching the Local Green New Deals report
- Who needs flexibility anyway?
- Why ‘rebound effects’ may cut energy savings in half
- Why any government serious about achieving net-zero needs to focus more on electrically assisted bikes
- Why energy efficient buildings should be a top climate policy priority
- Why is it so hard to engage SMEs on climate change?
- Why isn’t cutting demand at the heart of our energy policy?
- Why leaving climate policy to behaviour change will never be fair
- Why supporting tourism doesn’t mean supporting airport expansion
- Why the ‘Energy Security Strategy’ won’t work
- Why the PM is wrong: we cannot avoid ‘hairshirtism’ because of the technological promises of ‘guilt-free flights’
- Why we built a Place-Based Carbon Calculator
- Widespread benefits of rapid UK building retrofit
- Women in energy
- You can’t always get what you want: a reflection on Climate Assembly UK’s deliberations on decarbonising passenger transport
Policy & Governance
- Adding another layer? A future for clothing in heat demand reduction and decarbonisation
- 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
- Retrofit Salary Sacrifice
Project activity
- Closing project report: review of existing models
- 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
- 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
- Project update report: Development of energy system models to improve treatment of energy system architecture
- 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
- Some thoughts on the energy price crisis
- The Lost Generation: System Resilience and Flexibility
- Written evidence for DfT consultation on decarbonising the UK maritime sector
Projects
- Adding another layer? A future for clothing in heat demand reduction and decarbonisation
- Anticipating future impacts of ICTs on energy consumption
- Assessment of the industrial strategy
- Business models in the digital society
- CoCo Hybrid Project
- Comfort & control
- Commission on Travel Demand
- Commuting and business travel
- Conceptualising flexibility
- Construction industry energy reduction pathway
- Decarbonisation of coastal shipping
- Demand Side Management (DSM) availability baseline
- Designing pro-poor and ‘energy just’ policy mechanisms
- Development of energy system models to improve treatment of energy system architecture
- DeViz (Defect visualisation via thermography)
- Diffusion of smart meters
- Digital twins
- Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) as a disrupter of retail markets
- Drivers of policy asymmetry
- Energy Demand reduction options
- Energy efficiency and resiliency for power supply
- Evaluation of social, regulatory and governance implications of findings
- Expectations for automated vehicles (AVs)
- Facilitating policy change for low carbon mobility
- Flexibility of demand-side technologies
- Flexibility: past, present, future
- Flexing passenger mobility
- Future building energy & power demand pathways
- Health & energy efficiency
- Heating and comfort
- High energy consumers
- Historical impacts of ICTs
- ICT energy consumption evidence
- Identifying poverty and vulnerabilities: who, where and why?
- Impact of 5G technology
- Improving the MARCO-UK Model
- In-use energy performance certificates (EPCs)
- Industrial energy demand projection improvements
- Integrating mitigation options into MARCO-UK
- Lifecycle energy demand and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction options
- Local Green New Deals
- Long distance travel
- Measuring flexibility in the timing of electricity demand
- Modelling flexibility over time, mode, place
- Monitoring resource productivity impacts on energy demand
- Multi-level Governance
- Old for new? Mapping skills and communication networks for local traditional and off-site modular building energy retrofit
- Place-based business models for net-zero
- Policies for engagement
- Policy asymmetry in market design
- Price & time elasticity
- Retrofit Salary Sacrifice
- Review of existing modelling proposals for heat decarbonisation
- Sharing economy digital platforms
- Social entrepreneurship at the grid edge
- Space, time and infrastructure
- Stock dynamics and material flows
- Synthesising an energy justice and vulnerability framework
- Telecommuting and UK energy demand
- The governance of radical mobility change
- Time dependence & institutional flexibility
- User perceptions of smart homes
- Using electric vehicles as distributed energy storage systems
- Visualising and mapping vulnerabilities
Reporting & publishing
- CREDS annual reports
- CREDS communications strategies
- CREDS Mid-term review
- Preprint policies for the top 20 journals published in by CREDS researchers
- Quarterly reporting
Supporting research
- Balance of speakers at CREDS events, 2018 to 2022
- Creating a running order for a hybrid event
- CREDS action plan in response to Mid-term review
- CREDS annual reports
- CREDS communications strategies
- CREDS EDI Survey 2023
- CREDS Mid-term review
- CREDS Mid-term review action plan: Delivery status
- CREDS Mid-term review panel report
- CREDS Mid-term review report
- Digital accessibility
- Equality, diversity and inclusion plan
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Podcast
- Evaluation of hybrid events in CREDS 2023
- Event report: How might our research have greater real-world impact?
- Feedback on the Amplify Project, our anti-bullying forum
- Funding landscape for Early Career Researchers
- Guide to racially just energy research
- How to embed impact into your research and projects
- How to monitor and record impact
- How to prepare the impact sections for a proposal
- How to promote research
- How to undertake knowledge exchange
- How to use a flexible fund
- How to write blogs to communicate your research findings
- Improving data sharing in energy consortia
- Inclusive language guide
- Make it easy on yourself – use a reporting guideline
- Navigating knowledge exchange and research impact as an early career researcher
- Planning effective, inclusive and sustainable events
- Preprint policies for the top 20 journals published in by CREDS researchers
- Promoting CREDS research
- Quarterly reporting
- Quick guide for accessible presentations
- Recruitment practice: towards equity in process and outcomes within research
- Six ways to increase your impact during a research presentation
- The EDI cube: A tool for project design, evaluation and teaching
- The intersections between racial justice and energy demand research
- The long and winding road of research funding
- The research to impact journey
- The research to impact journey: an overview
- TReQ video series (improving the transparency, reproducibility and quality of your research)
- TReQ: 1 Principles
- TReQ: 2 Pre-registration
- TReQ: 3 Reporting guidelines
- TReQ: 4 Preprints
- TReQ: 5 Open data & code
- TReQ: 6 Conclusion
- Women in energy
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: Role of energy demand reduction in achieving net-zero in the UK
- Transcript: Science storytelling workshop with Josh Ettinger
- Transcript: Seasonality – online reading room
- Transcript: Space, time and contestations over demand response and infrastructure access
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
TReQ videos
- TReQ: 1 Principles
- TReQ: 2 Pre-registration
- TReQ: 3 Reporting guidelines
- TReQ: 4 Preprints
- TReQ: 5 Open data & code
- TReQ: 6 Conclusion