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UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Timeframe

July 2023 - June 2028

Overview

The Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC) addresses the unique opportunity to realise benefits from energy demand reductions in industry, businesses, transport and homes. Via an interdisciplinary research programme the Centre explores the delivery of integrated technological and social change to rapidly reduce emissions, secure prosperity, reduce inequality and improve quality of life, while working closely with partners from policy, industry, civil society and academia.

The research programme is arranged in five main interdisciplinary research themes of Futures, Flexibility, Place, Governance and Equity. The Centre for Energy Policy (CEP) leads the Equity theme which delivers critical insights on different energy demand and governance solutions, and how these may directly and indirectly impact different individuals, households, communities, and regions. The theme cuts across different quality-of-life measures relating to, for example, health, job and employment quality, real incomes, and the cost of living. It also examines how these interact with specific issues such as fuel and transport poverty, and the justice aspects of different energy demand reduction solutions.

Partners

University of Sussex, Newcastle University, Cardiff University, University of Edinburgh, Imperial College London, Lancaster University, University College London, University of Leeds, University of Manchester, University of Reading, University of Surrey, University of Birmingham.

Publications

• Understanding wider economy implications and equity outcomes
• Understanding the labour justice outcomes of green job transitions
• Problem and solution framework for energy-related inequities in the UK
• Maximising equity outcomes of energy demand solutions
• Human-centred self-adaptive Ai tool for Net Zero community
• Developing solutions to fuel and transport poverty challenges
• Creating an Equity Living Lab (ELL) to test energy demand solutions