Yesterday's event on Energy and Complexity (the way forward), organised by my colleagues at Leeds and UKERC, provided a forum for the group of 4 EPSRC projects funded under the energy and complexity call to share and discuss their findings. The focus of the day was to establish the:
- key insights or lessons do these 4 projects offer us – and for whom;
- main challenges in understanding energy systems that we could tackle with the tools of complexity science;
- priority areas for research.
- Using agile software engineering type methodologies within the design and delivery of projects to reduce energy demand.
- What are the risks to resilience created by smart grid demand response measures?
- How can ICT (e.g. smart meters) provide data to better inform the models of future smart grids?
- What are the implications of the Powering the Nation Report (Energy Savings Trust) for smart home vision?
- What are the visions for Demand 3.0? How does this vision relate to other 3.0 visions (Governance 3.0, Knowledge 3.0, Energy 3.0 etc.)?
- How can ICT support the cascade effect for adoption of energy efficiency measures (i.e. whereby an individual is more likely to adopt if his/her friends, family, peers etc. adopt)?
- How can the data generated by trial smart demand reducing technologies (e.g. smart meter trials) be better analysed (both to develop academic understanding of behaviour and inform policy)?
- How can the design of ICT systems (and other energy demand related disciplines) move away from a mechanistic view of energy consumer behaviour?
- How can agent based models be used to develop understanding of the potential for social network technologies to propagate sustainable behaviours?
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