SERG’s first report for the LCNF funded SAVE project has been published. The report, “Report 2.1 ā SAVE Customer Model Framework Specification“, lays out the applied research context for the SAVE Customer Modelling Framework (SCMF) and describes its key requirements. The report then outlines a microsimulation modelling approach than can meet these requirements and describes its conceptual foundations and method […]
The SAVE project’s review of evidence onĀ ‘Energy Efficiency and Behaviour Change‘ which has just been published shows that whilst theĀ great variety of previous trialĀ approaches and contexts often makes it difficult to compare results, common insights haveĀ emerged.Ā These include: CustomersĀ cannot be engaged as one group – the wayĀ in which different people react to attempts to change their […]
Theme: ‘District Energy Supply within Cities’ Date: 22-29 March 2015 Venue: University of Southampton
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The Census2022Ā project recently gave a series of presentations of preliminary results at the following conferences and events: British Society for Population Studies Annual Conference: University of Winchester, 8-10 September 2014, (slides) Behave 2014 āParadigm Shift: From Energy Efficiency to Energy Reduction through Social Changeā, the third European conference on behaviour and energy efficiency, SaĆÆd […]
This event aims to analyse the role that community initiatives can play in the reduction of personal energy demand. It will focus on the ways in which community initiatives decide which audiences to engage, how they communicate their aims and what this means for their effectiveness.
SERG has secured funding to model domestic water demand under drought scenarios as part of the new NERC funded ‘IMPETUS‘ project. The project, to be lead by the University of Reading will start in June 2014 and run for 3 years. It is aiming to combine meteorological and hydrological models to produce drought ‘forecasts’ for […]
Investigators: Professor AbuBakr Bahaj, Dr Ben Anderson and Professor Patrick James. Contact: A.S.Bahaj@soton.ac.uk The Sustainable Energy Research Group (SERG) at the University of Southampton are the academic lead of a newly funded second tier low carbon project by funded by Ofgem and SSEPD valued at a total of Ā£10.3 million, starting in 2014. The consortium […]
The following session has been accepted for the RGS Annual Conference 2014 Session Title: The role of commercial data in #Census2022 Organisers: Dr Ben Anderson and Dr Andy Newing, Sustainable Energy Research Group, University of Southampton Session Chair: Keith Dugmore, Demographic Decisions Ltd. and Demographics User Group Session Sponsor: ESRC #Census2022 Transformative Research Project Abstract: […]
The Exploring the value ofĀ transactional energy consumption data project is part of the wider ESRC funded Administrative Data Research Centre for England (ADRC). Investigator: Dr Ben Anderson Contact: b.anderson@southampton.ac.uk The Administrative Data Research Centre for England (ADRC), which is lead by Professor Peter Smith of the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, will enable information routinely […]