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The role of consumers in the uptake of decentralised energy storage technologies

Peter Taylor, University of Leeds Various forms of decentralised electricity and heat storage (decentralised energy storage, DES) could play an important role ...

Here comes the sun: The evolution of a Prosuming Project within a social housing estate

Nicolette Fox, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Overview This is a case study of how seven families living in social housing started produ...

Integrating prosumers into the electricity grid: the interplay between technology and people

Yael Parag. Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya In the era of renewable and decentralized energy systems, prosumers are becoming crucial as they provide a...

Prosumage of solar electricity: batteries, heating and mobility

Wolf-Peter Schill, DIW Berlin Overview Spurred by technology development and regulatory incentives, self-consumption of distributed renewable electricity ge...

Role of household activities in peak electricity demand and distributional effects of Time-of-Use tariffs

Timur Yunusov, University of Reading In the UK, the electricity distribution networks and the electricity generation plants are traditionally designed to cater...

Modelling Take-Up of Residential Solar PV in the UK

Sophie Heald, Cambridge Econometrics In February 2016, the solar PV tariff rate in the UK was reduced from 12.47 p/kWh to 4.39 p/kWh. Since that date, growth i...

UK Energy Expenditure Shares – A Long Term View

David Deller, Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia This paper maps the percentage of household expenditure devoted to energy in the UK over...

Spatio-temporal analysis of PV diffusion patterns: an integrated neural networks and agent-based model

Ali Alderete Peralta, Cranfield University Photovoltaic (PV) panels offer significant potentials for contributing to the UK’s energy policy goals relating to...

No one left behind – Consumer empowerment, protection and universal service in the low carbon

Chris Harris , npower The fourth and fifth carbon budgets have challenges in implementation of current policies, and some remaining policy gaps. The Paris comm...

Energy cooperatives: a missing piece of the peer-to-peer energy regulation puzzle?

Alexandra Schneiders, UCL Energy Institute, University College London Peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading, often facilitated through distributed ledgers (‘bloc...

Business participation in demand response: a review of potential barriers

Catarina Araya Cardoso, Westminster Business School Demand side response (DSR) is widely seen as the main intervention tool to address issues of peaks and trou...

Attitudes, preferences and intentions to participate in peer-to-peer electricity trading: The case of Southwest German households

André Hackbarth, Reutlingen University Overview The share of electricity produced   from renewable resources in Germany increased to almost 32% in 2015,Â...
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