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- Decarbonisation of heat
- Decarbonisation of the steel industry
- Decarbonisation of the steel industry: findings report
- Demand flexibility
- Digital Society
- Digitalisation
- Energy systems
- Energy use in a net-zero UK – lessons from lockdown
- Engaging people
- Equity in the zero-carbon energy transition
- Flexibility
- Fuel and transport poverty in the UK: findings report
- Fuel and transport poverty in the UK’s energy transition (FAIR)
- Funders
- Governance and policy
- Industry and materials
- Learning from the pandemic
- Local action
- Materials & Products
- Materials & products: findings report
- Multiple benefits
- Partners
- People quick list
- Place-based carbon calculator launch
- Policy & Governance
- Privacy policy
- Shared stories – the Amplify project
- Shifting the focus: video highlights
- Supporting research
- Terms & conditions
- The energy affordability and security crisis
- The potential for reducing energy demand
- Tools and data
- Transport & Mobility
- 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
- 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
- Cost of living crisis and the PBCC
- COVID-19 restrictions are a way of life for many vulnerable people
- Covid-19, the built environment, and inequalities
- CREDS at ECEEE Summer Study
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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?
- 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
- 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 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?
- Playing with food (policy): The need to rapidly implement a net-zero National Food Strategy
- 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?
- Riding for the planet (and for a book launch)
- Setting the ambition for anti-racist energy demand research
- 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 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 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 fixity of flexibility
- The gaping hole in energy policy
- The intersections between racial justice and energy demand research
- The power of getting real(ist)
- 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, flexibility and energy demand – postcards from a workshop
- 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
- Who needs flexibility anyway?
- Why ‘rebound effects’ may cut energy savings in half
- 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
- Navigating knowledge exchange and research impact as an early career researcher
- Promoting CREDS research
Covid-19 energy use
- Commuting and business travel
- Heating and comfort
- Local Green New Deals
- Space, time and infrastructure
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
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
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
Equality, diversity and inclusion
- Amplify project
- Equality, diversity and inclusion plan
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Podcast
- Inclusive language guide
- Recruitment practice: towards equity in process and outcomes within research
- Setting the ambition for anti-racist energy demand research
- The intersections between racial justice and energy demand research
- Women in energy
Events
- CREDS autumn webinar series
- Long-distance travel, social change and climate change: troubles ahead?
- Making mass retrofit a reality: A webinar from CREDS and Buildings & Cities
- Meeting the UK’s energy demand challenge
- The role of energy demand reduction in achieving net-zero in the UK
- 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
- CREDS research findings
- Decarbonising local transport – help for local authorities
- Our response to the Clean Growth Strategy
- Positive low energy futures
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 a Pathways to Impact statement
- The long and winding road of research funding
Impact
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
Networking
- CREDS in conversation
- Energy Demand Research Network (EDRN)
- Podcast: Digitalisation for people and the planet
- Podcast: Price elasticity of energy demand
- Podcast: Realistically radical policy options
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 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 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
- 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?
- 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 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
- TReQ video series (improving the transparency, reproducibility and quality of your research)
- 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
- 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
- Cost of living crisis and the PBCC
- COVID-19 restrictions are a way of life for many vulnerable people
- Covid-19, the built environment, and inequalities
- CREDS at ECEEE Summer Study
- CREDS autumn webinar series
- 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 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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?
- 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
- 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
- Long-distance travel, social change and climate change: troubles ahead?
- 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 mass retrofit a reality: A webinar from CREDS and Buildings & Cities
- Making our homes net-zero
- Managing resources sustainably is key to cutting UK greenhouse gases
- Meeting the UK’s energy demand challenge
- 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 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 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?
- Playing with food (policy): The need to rapidly implement a net-zero National Food Strategy
- 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
- 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?
- Riding for the planet (and for a book launch)
- Rural communities most exposed to risk of energy and transport poverty, new study finds
- Seasonality – our second flexibility reading room
- Setting the ambition for anti-racist energy demand research
- 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?
- 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 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 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 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 power of getting real(ist)
- The role of energy demand reduction in achieving net-zero in the UK
- 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, flexibility and energy demand – postcards from a workshop
- Travel resilience lessons from the pandemic. Travelling less could be here to stay finds new study
- TReQ video series (improving the transparency, reproducibility and quality of your research)
- 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
- Webinar: How to influence the Sixth Carbon Budget
- Weekend two of Climate Assembly UK: CREDS presenters take part in all groups
- What role for community in the energy crisis?
- What we do
- Who needs flexibility anyway?
- Why ‘rebound effects’ may cut energy savings in half
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Deep refurbishment of buildings
- 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
- 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
Supporting research
- Amplify project
- CREDS in conversation
- Energy Demand Research Network (EDRN)
- Equality, diversity and inclusion plan
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Podcast
- Event report: How might our research have greater real-world impact?
- Funding landscape for Early Career Researchers
- How to prepare a Pathways to Impact statement
- Inclusive language guide
- Make it easy on yourself – use a reporting guideline
- Navigating knowledge exchange and research impact as an early career researcher
- Podcast: Digitalisation for people and the planet
- Podcast: Price elasticity of energy demand
- Podcast: Realistically radical policy options
- Preprint policies for the top 20 journals published in by CREDS researchers
- Promoting CREDS research
- Recruitment practice: towards equity in process and outcomes within research
- Setting the ambition for anti-racist energy demand research
- The intersections between racial justice and energy demand research
- The long and winding road of research funding
- 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: Seasonality – online reading room
- Transcript: Space, time and contestations over demand response and infrastructure access
- Transcripts: Shifting the focus video highlights
Transparency & reproducibility
- Make it easy on yourself – use a reporting guideline
- Preprint policies for the top 20 journals published in by CREDS researchers
- TReQ video series (improving the transparency, reproducibility and quality of your research)
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
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 comparative analysis of building energy estimation methods in the context of demand response
- A data strategy to promote the clean growth of UK industries
- A disaggregate analysis of ‘excess’ car travel and its role in decarbonisation
- A high-resolution spatio-temporal energy demand simulation to explore the potential of heating demand side management with large-scale heat pump diffusion
- A multidimensional index to measure energy poverty: the Polish case
- A place-based carbon calculator for England
- A reform agenda for UK construction education and practice
- A small area estimation of the capability of individuals to replace car travel with walking, cycling and e-bikes and its implications for energy use
- A spatial whole systems justice approach to sustainability transitions
- A structured open data collection on occupant behaviour in buildings
- A systematic review of the energy and climate impacts of teleworking
- 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
- Active travel’s contribution to climate change mitigation: Research summary and outlook
- Aligning carbon targets for construction with (inter)national climate change mitigation commitments
- An empirical energy demand flexibility metric for residential properties
- An energy leap? Business model innovation and intermediation in the ‘Energiesprong’ retrofit initiative
- An estimation of different minimum exergy return ratios required for society
- An international review of markets for voluntary green electricity tariffs
- Anticipating distributional impacts of peer-to-peer energy trading: Inference from a realist review of evidence on Airbnb
- Appraising the economics of smart meters: costs and benefits
- Associations between indoor temperature, self-rated health and socioeconomic position in a cross-sectional study of adults in England
- 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
- Behind the targets? The case for coherence in a multi-scalar approach to carbon action plans in the transport sector
- BEIS consultation: Energy-related products
- BEIS select committee inquiry on financing energy infrastructure: consultation response
- Beware the value gap: Creating value for users and for the system through innovation in digital energy services business models
- Beyond climate, culture and comfort in European preferences for low-carbon heat
- Borrowing, energy demand and Covid: a model for disruption
- Bridging the climate mitigation gap with economy-wide material productivity
- Briefing: Industrial decarbonisation policies for a UK net zero target
- Building a zero-carbon economy – call for evidence
- Building decarbonisation transition pathways
- Building on our strengths: A market transformation approach to energy retrofit in UK homes
- 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
- Chapter 11: Cycling, climate change and air pollution
- Chapter 14: Social divisions in energy justice in the transport sector: personal car ownership and use
- Chapter 17: Local heat and energy efficiency policy: ambiguity and ambivalence in England and Scotland
- Characterizing the energy use of disabled people in the European Union towards inclusion in the energy transition
- Climate action, city regions and central government: a comparative analysis of the UK City Deals
- Climate action, city regions and central government: a comparative analysis of the UK City Deals – summary
- Collecting silences: creating value by assetizing carbon emission mitigations and energy demand reductions
- Comparison of indoor temperatures of homes with recommended temperatures and effects of disability and age: an observational, cross-sectional study
- 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
- Consumer network access, core capacity
- Consumers or users? The impact of user learning about smart hybrid heat pumps on policy trajectories for heat decarbonisation
- Controllable, frightening, or fun? Exploring the gendered dynamics of smart home technology preferences in the United Kingdom
- Covid-19 TRANSAS: Understanding behaviour change with neighbourhood characteristics
- Creating a clean steel fund: call for evidence
- Creating domestic building thermal performance ratings using smart meter data
- CREDS Annual Report: April 2018–September 2019
- CREDS Annual Report: October 2019 to September 2020
- CREDS Annual Report: October 2020 to September 2021
- CREDS Annual Report: October 2021 to September 2022
- Critically reviewing smart home technology applications and business models in Europe
- Culture and low-carbon energy transitions
- Culture, energy and climate sustainability, and smart home technologies: A mixed methods comparison of four countries
- Curbing excess: high energy consumption and the fair energy transition
- Current practices and infrastructure for open data based research on occupant-centric design and operation of buildings
- Data-driven unsustainability? An interdisciplinary perspective on governing the environmental impacts of a data-driven society
- 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
- Decarbonizing household heating: Reviewing demographics, geography and low-carbon practices and preferences in five European countries
- Decomposing the drivers of residential space cooling energy consumption in EU-28 countries using a panel data approach
- Deconstruct: A scalable method of as-built heat power loss coefficient inference for UK dwellings using smart meter data
- Deep retrofit approaches: managing risks to minimise the energy performance gap
- Demand response and energy justice: A critical overview of ethical risks and opportunities within digital, decentralised, and decarbonised futures
- Demand response beyond the numbers: A critical reappraisal of flexibility in two United Kingdom field trials
- Demand response: success isn’t just about numbers
- Department for Transport call for evidence – Jet zero: our strategy for net zero aviation
- Development of a profile-based electricity demand response estimation method: An application based on UK hotel chillers
- DfT Consultation – ending the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars and vans
- Digital energy services: climbing the Innovation Ladder
- Digitalisation of goods: a systematic review of the determinants and magnitude of the impacts on energy consumption
- Distributional effects of Time of Use tariffs based on electricity demand and time use
- Do information-based measures affect active travel, and if so, for whom, when and under what circumstances? Evidence from a longitudinal case-control study
- Do teleworkers travel less? Evidence from the English National Travel Survey
- Doing business model innovation for sustainability transitions – bringing in strategic foresight and human centred design
- Domestic demand-side response with heat pumps: controls and tariffs
- Domestic heating with compact combination hybrids (gas boiler and heat pump): A simple English stock model of different heating system scenarios
- Domestic retrofit supply chain initiatives and business innovations: an international review
- Double energy vulnerability: Spatial intersections of domestic and transport energy poverty in England
- Drivers and effects of digitalization on energy demand in low carbon scenarios
- Dynamic Anthropogenic activitieS impacting Heat emissions (DASH v1.0): development and evaluation
- e-bike carbon savings – how much and where?
- E-bikes and their capability to reduce car CO2 emissions
- e-bikes could slash transport emissions
- Ecology of heat pump performance: A socio-technical analysis
- Effect of boiler oversizing on efficiency: a dynamic simulation study
- Eliciting stakeholders’ requirements of future energy systems: a case study of heat decarbonisation in the UK
- Elite Status: global inequalities in flying
- Empirical and modelled energy performance in Kuwaiti villas: Understanding the social and physical factors that influence energy use
- Energy and labour: Thinking across the continuum
- Energy and transport planning
- Energy demand and its temporal flexibility: Approaches, criticalities and ways forward
- Energy demand in the energy transition
- Energy demand reduction options for meeting national zero-emission targets in the United Kingdom
- Energy demand reduction: its importance in meeting climate change targets
- Energy efficiency and economy-wide rebound effects: a review of the evidence and its implications
- Energy efficiency in the energy transition
- Energy efficiency schemes for small and medium sized businesses: consultation response
- Energy efficiency: What has research delivered in the last 40 years?
- Energy Networks Association – Flexibility Consultation 2020
- Energy Performance Certificates in buildings consultation response
- Energy sector digitalisation
- Energy sufficiency in policy and practice: the question of needs and wants
- Energy system requirements of fossil-free steelmaking using hydrogen direct reduction
- Energy use intensities in London houses
- Energy-efficient retrofit measures (EERM) in residential buildings: An application of discrete choice modelling
- Energy, pollution and climate change
- Engaging with civil servants to improve impact
- Enough is enough – the time for climate action is now
- Environmental Audit Committee – technological innovation & climate change: heat pumps
- Environmental Audit Committee (House of Commons) inquiry on energy efficiency of existing homes
- Environmental Audit Committee inquiry into technological innovations and climate change: community energy
- Equality, diversity and inclusion report 2020
- Evaluating assumptions of scales for subjective assessment of thermal environments – do laypersons perceive them the way, we researchers believe?
- Evaluation in an emergency: Assessing transformative energy policy amidst the climate crisis
- Evaluation report: CREDS early career researcher Flexible Fund call
- Evidence to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee inquiry into net zero aviation and shipping
- Evidence to the Lords Environmental and Climate Change Committee on Mobilising action on climate change and environment: behaviour change
- 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
- Existing and future technologies for retrofitting the UK housing stock
- Exploring socioeconomic and temporal characteristics of British and German residential energy demand
- Exploring the practices and roles of UK construction manufacturers and merchants in relation to housing energy retrofit
- Exploring the role of failure in socio-technical transitions research
- Exploring transport consumption-based emissions: Spatial patterns, social factors, well-being, and policy implications
- Fairness in transitions to low-carbon mobility
- Fairness, effectiveness, and needs satisfaction: new options for designing climate policies
- Flexibilities in energy supply and demand: Legacies and lessons from the past
- Flexibility capital and flexibility justice in smart energy systems
- Flexibility workshop – Jordans YHA
- Flexible and responsive energy retail markets: putting consumers at the centre of a smart, low carbon energy system
- France and UK are well positioned to learn from each other on self-consumption and peer-to-peer energy trading
- From capabilities to capacity: Examining core power capacity requirements in the UK residential sector under the capabilities framework
- From thermal comfort to conflict: The contested control and usage of domestic smart heating in the United Kingdom
- From using heat to using work: reconceptualising the zero carbon energy transition
- Further reflections on vulnerability and resistance in the United Kingdom’s smart meter transition
- Future changes in consumption: The income effect on greenhouse gas emissions
- Future food footprints: Sowing the seeds for change?
- Future of transport regulatory review
- Geospatial multi-criteria analysis for identifying optimum wind and solar sites in Africa: Towards effective power sector decarbonization
- Global redistribution of income and household energy footprints: a computational thought experiment
- Global sustainability, innovation and governance dynamics of national smart electricity meter transitions
- Governance institutions and prospects for local energy innovation: laggards and leaders among UK local authorities
- Governing a risky relationship between sustainability and smart mobility
- Green uplift: how a net zero economy can reduce fuel and transport poverty
- Growing greener: Creating a new values-based environmental engagement toolkit for SME intermediaries
- Guides or gatekeepers? Incumbent-oriented transition intermediaries in a low-carbon era
- Happier with less? Members of European environmental grassroots initiatives reconcile lower carbon footprints with higher life satisfaction and income increases
- Health benefits of policies to reduce carbon emissions
- Health care’s response to climate change: a carbon footprint assessment of the NHS in England
- 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
- Heating with steam methane reformed hydrogen – a survey of the emissions, security and cost implications of heating with hydrogen produced from natural gas
- HM Treasury – consultation on aviation tax reform
- Home energy efficiency and radon: An observational study
- Homeowner low carbon retrofits: Implications for future UK policy
- 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
- House of Lords Covid Committee: inquiry into the long-term impact of the pandemic on the UK’s towns and cities
- Household electricity demand, the intrinsic flexibility index and UK wholesale electricity market prices
- Household final energy footprints in Nepal, Vietnam and Zambia: composition, inequality and links to well-being
- Household sharing for carbon and energy reductions: The case of EU countries
- Housing retrofit: six types of local authority energy service models
- How should energy researchers respond to the climate emergency?
- How socially just are taxes on air travel and ‘frequent flyer levies’?
- How weather affects energy demand variability in the transition towards sustainable heating
- Humanizing heat as a service: Cost, creature comforts and the diversity of smart heating practices in the United Kingdom
- I’m coming home (to charge): The relation between commuting practices and peak energy demand in the United Kingdom
- Identifying double energy vulnerability: A systematic and narrative review of groups at-risk of energy and transport poverty in the global north
- Imagining sustainable energy and mobility transitions: Valence, temporality, and radicalism in 38 visions of a low-carbon future
- Implications of shrinking household sizes for meeting the 1.5°C climate targets
- Improving energy research practices: guidance for transparency, reproducibility and quality
- Industrial decarbonisation policies for a UK net-zero target
- Infrastructure Commission for Scotland
- Innovation Forums to tackle the climate emergency
- 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
- Introducing a performance-based policy Framework in large commercial and industrial buildings in England and Wales
- Is working from home better or worse for the environment?
- It’s only a matter of time: Flexibility, activities and time of use tariffs in the United Kingdom
- Just flexibility?
- Knowledge, energy sustainability, and vulnerability in the demographics of smart home technology diffusion
- Less is more: Changing travel in a post-pandemic society
- LGA guidance on actions for transport in the climate emergency
- Lifestyle, efficiency and limits: modelling transport energy and emissions using a socio-technical approach
- Lost generation: Reflections on resilience and flexibility from an energy system architecture perspective
- Lost generation: System resilience and flexibility
- Macro-economic impacts of green policies in the Economic Recovery Package post-Covid
- Make fun of your research
- Making demand side response happen: A review of barriers in commercial and public organisations
- Making efficiency pay
- Making SAP and RdSAP 11 fit for net zero
- Matching consumer segments to innovative utility business models
- Meeting UK heat demands in zero emission renewable energy systems using storage and interconnectors
- Microdata selection for estimating household consumption-based emissions
- Mixed feelings: A review and research agenda for emotions in sustainability transitions
- Mobility during and after the pandemic
- 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
- More and better homes – the opportunity of self-build
- Much broader than health: Surveying the diverse co-benefits of energy demand reduction in Europe
- Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology-forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal (2000-2019)
- Net Zero review: call for evidence
- Net Zero: why resource efficiency holds the answers
- New dimensions of vulnerability to energy and transport poverty
- New times, new policies? Policies to change energy use in the context of zero carbon
- Observational evidence of the seasonal and demographic variation in experienced temperature from 77,743 UK Biobank participants
- Of emergence, diffusion and impact: A socio-technical perspective on researching energy demand
- OpenTripPlanner for R
- Options for accelerating retrofit rates in the domestic owner-occupier sector
- Patchy coverage: New CREDS study finds a number of ‘blackspots’ in the publicly available evidence base on the energy use impacts of 5G
- Pathways to a zero carbon Oxfordshire
- Peer-to-peer electricity trading and the sharing economy: social, markets and regulatory perspectives
- Personal carbon allowances revisited
- Placing people at the heart of climate action
- Policy and pricing barriers to steel industry decarbonisation: A UK case study
- Policy for energy demand reduction
- Policy mixes for more sustainable smart home technologies
- Policy options for a net-zero emissions UK steel sector
- Population-weighted degree-days: The global shift between heating and cooling
- Positive low energy futures briefing
- Possible future impacts of elevated levels of atmospheric CO2 on human cognitive performance and on the design and operation of ventilation systems in buildings
- Pricing decisions in peer-to-peer and prosumer-centred electricity markets: Experimental analysis in Germany and the United Kingdom
- Principles of successful non-residential energy efficiency policy
- Public acceptability towards Low Emission Zones: The role of attitudes, norms, emotions, and trust
- Public acceptance of post-growth: Factors and implications for post-growth strategy
- Quantifying the measurement error on England and Wales EPC ratings
- 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
- Realist approaches in energy research to support faster and fairer climate action
- Rebound effects for household energy services in the UK
- Reducing inequality resulting from UK low-carbon policy
- Reducing the UK’s food footprint: Demand-side action for more palatable food emissions
- Reframing policy for the energy efficiency challenge: Insights from housing retrofits in the United Kingdom
- Reinventing energy efficiency for net zero
- Report on the socio-macroeconomic impacts of the UK Labour Party’s renewable and low carbon energy targets in the ’30 by 2030′ UK Energy Plan
- 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
- Rethinking energy services: The concept of ‘meta-service’ and implications for demand reduction and servicizing policy
- Reviewing the scope and thematic focus of 100,000 publications on energy consumption, services and social aspects of climate change: a big data approach to demand-side mitigation
- Science-based targets: On target?
- Scottish Government consultation on Energy Efficient Scotland proposals: consultation response
- Scottish Government consultation on its draft Heat in Buildings Strategy
- Shared mobility – where now, where next? Second report of the Commission on Travel Demand
- Shared mobility: the case for fewer cars, more sharing
- Shifting the focus towards energy demand
- Shifting the focus: 1 Introduction: why energy demand is important to a low carbon transition
- Shifting the focus: 2 Reducing energy demand from buildings
- Shifting the focus: 3 Industry, materials and products
- Shifting the focus: 4 Transport & mobility
- Shifting the focus: 5 Electricity: making demand more flexible
- Shifting the focus: 6 Using zero carbon energy
- Shifting the focus: 7 Policy: delivering further and faster change in energy demand
- Shifting the focus: 8 Conclusions
- Shifting the focus: 9 Detailed recommendations
- Shifting the focus: energy demand in a net-zero carbon UK
- Shifting the focus: energy demand in a net-zero carbon UK: Report highlights
- Small is beautiful? Stories of carbon footprints, socio-demographic trends and small households in Denmark
- Smart home technologies in Europe: A critical review of concepts, benefits, risks and policies
- Smart technologies, energy demand and vulnerable groups; the scope for ‘just’ metering?
- Social and economic value in emerging decentralized energy business models: A critical review
- Social and material cogs of the needs satisfier escalator
- Social impacts of peer-to-peer energy trading: a rapid realist review protocol
- Social innovation in the shadow of policy failure: Energy efficiency in self-build housing
- Socio-macroeconomic impacts of implementing different post-Brexit UK energy reduction targets to 2030
- Socio-macroeconomic impacts of meeting new build and retrofit UK building energy targets to 2030: a MARCO-UK modelling study
- Solar, wind and logistic substitution in global energy supply to 2050 – Barriers and implications
- Space heating operation of combination boilers in the UK: The case for addressing real-world boiler performance
- Spatially disaggregated car ownership prediction using deep neural networks
- Structural analysis of final energy demand
- Structural change for a post-growth economy: Investigating the relationship between embodied energy intensity and labour productivity
- Summary: thirty years of climate mitigation
- Supporting the Climate Change Committee
- Survey study on energy use in UK homes during Covid-19
- Sustainable welfare: How do universal basic income and universal basic services compare?
- Taking 3D stock: modelling the building stock and its use of energy
- Technologies for meeting Clean Growth emissions reduction targets inquiry: consultation response
- Technology and material efficiency scenarios for net zero emissions in the UK steel sector
- Temporal aggregation: Time use methodologies applied to residential electricity demand
- 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 associations between thermal variety and health: Implications for space heating energy use
- The climate change mitigation effects of daily active travel in cities
- The climate change mitigation impacts of active travel: Evidence from a longitudinal panel study in seven European cities
- The distributional effects of pathways to net-zero and the implications for fuel and transport poverty
- The diversity penalty: Domestic energy injustice and ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom
- The energy price crisis – issues for energy use
- The energy use implications of 5G: Reviewing whole network operational energy, embodied energy, and indirect effects
- The environmental impact of green consumption and sufficiency lifestyles scenarios in Europe: connecting local sustainability visions to global consequences
- The expected role of individuals in the transition to net zero: policies and pathways facilitating an active role
- The history of heat-as-a-service for promoting domestic demand-side flexibility: lessons from the case of budget warmth
- The leaders of tomorrow: our work with Early Career Researchers
- 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 over-prediction of primary energy use intensity by EPCs in Great Britain: A direct comparison of EPC-modelled and smart metered energy use in gas-heated homes
- The potential climatic significance of the global reduction in aviation during the pandemic
- The price is not right! Energy demand, Time of Use tariffs, values and social practices
- The rebound effect and the Jevons’ Paradox: beyond the conventional wisdom
- The relationship between airtightness and ventilation in new UK dwellings
- The relationship between the built environment and subjective wellbeing – analysis of cross-sectional data from the English Housing Survey
- The remaining potential for energy savings in UK households
- The role of digitalisation in low carbon scenarios
- The role of energy demand in policymaking for a just transition to net zero: a comparative survey in the UK, the Netherlands and Germany
- The role of energy demand reduction in achieving net-zero in the UK
- The role of energy demand reduction in achieving net-zero in the UK: Materials and products
- The role of energy demand reduction in achieving net-zero in the UK: Nutrition
- The role of energy demand reduction in achieving net-zero in the UK: Transport and mobility
- The role of knowledge exchange in energy demand policy innovation
- The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales
- The story of condensing boiler market transformation – a briefing note for BEIS
- The sustainability implications of single occupancy 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
- Thermal performance of occupied homes: A dynamic grey-box method accounting for solar gains
- 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
- Three-scope carbon emission inventories of global cities
- Time to rethink energy research
- To own or not to own – that is the question: The value of owning a (fully automated) vehicle
- Top ten tips for reducing your carbon footprint attracts international attention
- Towards an inclusive climate alliance with a balance of carrots and sticks
- Towards net zero nutrition: the contribution of demand-side change to mitigating UK food emissions
- Transforming small and medium-sized enterprises to address the climate emergency: The case for values-based engagement
- Transforming UK Government energy and resources policy
- Transforming urban energy demand: A timely challenge
- Transitions in energy efficiency and demand
- Transport modes and inequalities
- Transport, energy and climate change
- Transport, the economy and environmental sustainability post-Covid-19
- Trends in air travel inequality in the UK: From the few to the many?
- TReQ Tools: how to improve transparency, reproducibility and quality in energy research
- Twin transitions of decarbonisation and digitalisation: A historical perspective on energy and information in European economies
- Two energy suppliers are better than one: survey experiments on consumer engagement with local energy in GB
- Understanding policy divergence after United Kingdom devolution: strategic action fields in Scottish energy efficiency policy
- Untangling the drivers of energy reduction in the UK productive sectors: Efficiency or offshoring?
- 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
- Vehicle to grid: driver plug-in patterns, their impact on the cost and carbon of charging, and implications for system flexibility
- Visiting International Programme
- Visualising Defects via Thermography (DeViz): A combined technological, behavioural and quality systems approach to achieving near zero defect buildings
- Vulnerability to fuel and transport poverty
- Vulnerability to motor fuel price increases: socio-spatial patterns in England
- Watts the deal?
- We are the ones that we seek: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in CREDS
- What buildings policy might look like if we took climate change seriously
- What do empirical findings reveal about modelled energy demand and energy ratings? Comparisons of gas consumption across the English residential sector
- What explains public transport use? Evidence from seven European cities
- What is the state of the art in energy and transport poverty metrics? A critical and comprehensive review
- 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
- Why mobility justice means prioritising accessible walking environments
- Winners and losers of policy reform on electricity tariffs
- Worth the risk? An evaluation of alternative finance mechanisms for residential retrofit