Dr Janet Stephenson and Dr Allan Miller tell the fantasy tale of getting two very large demand side management research projects off the ground - Energy Cultures 2 and Green Grid. Told at the Wellington IEA DSM Storytelling workshop on March 17, 2014.
6. Prof. Gerry
Carrington
physics/
engineering
Dr Paul
Thorsnes
economics
Dr Janet Stephenson
sociology/
human geography
Prof. Rob
Lawson
consumer
psychology
Prof. Barry
Barton
law & policy
Dr John
Williams
marketing
Dr Rebecca
Ford
engineering
Dr Sara
Walton
management
Dr David
Rees
system
dynamics
Dr Charles
Sullivan
psychology;
statistics
Dr Michelle Scott
psychology, HCI
Dr Debbie
Hopkins
environmental
sociology
Dr Adam
Doering
social science;
transport
Alaric
McCarthy
marine
science
Dr Ben
Wooliscroft
macro-
marketing
21. • In the long run the demand side will participate
22. Photovoltaics in the Future?
By 2021:
•20-30% midday
capacity
•Meets only 4%
of energy
requirement
•Wind will
exacerbate the
variability (up
to 50%
capacity)
27. What about the short run?
GREEN Grid, the bearer of the Ring
• Demand response en-mass from homes to deal with
renewable variability
• Two benefits: facilitates more renewables, brings the demand
side to the table
32. “Although there are a number of possible trajectories
for reaching the 2°C target, they all imply a reduction
to zero of the net global greenhouse gas emissions in
the second half of this century.”
OECD, “Climate change and carbon. Aligning prices and policies”, OECD Environment
Policy Paper No 1 (2013). P16.
Jordan et al 2013, Climate Policy
E.g. We use energy frugally in all activities. Put on jersey rather than turn on heater. Only heat one room of house, wash in cold water.
Invite audience to suggest some of the external influences
Collaborative culture is having an influence more and more on business trends. From couchsurfing, to coworking, colunching, coshopping and of course carsharing.
But what might the future hold, across all energy uses – ever-increasing demand and supply, power grid giants striding across the world, supercities in thrall to energy companies?
Or a future in which engagement in energy supply and demand were much more part of everyday life, where renewable supply increased to 90-100% of electricity, more distributed generation, emergence of prosumers, integrated management of supply and demand,...?
Demand management means involved citizens, households.Wlillingness to engageEnergy literacyAdoption of new (and old) energy eficiency technologies and practicesA changing energy culture
Changing norms, expectations, energy literacy
Building a vision and rapidly moving towards this over past 8 years
The challenging landscape that has to be traversed by the Fellowship