The User-Centred Energy Systems mission is to provide policy-relevant evidence on factors influencing energy use, including technology acceptance, and their impact on society.
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Academy kicks off the new season with the 60th webinar
Our first Academy webinar for 2025/26 will be the 60th in the series since the Users TCP Academy succeeded the DSM University in late 2019.
Behave 2025 – Call for extended abstracts announced
The call targets both academic and policy/practice contributions. Authors and researchers are invited to submit their extended abstracts before 7th July 2025.
Just released! 2024/25 Annual Report
The Users TCP Annual Report for our 2024/25 financial year has been published and provides an overview of the work and achievements of the TCP and its Tasks over
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2024/25 Annual Report
The 2024/25 Annual Report is now available to view in an online version. This report provides an overview of the activities of the Users TCP and its Task during the 2024/25 year.
HTR Task – Unintended Consequences Report
This report is the first major milestone of Year 1 Phase 2 of the Hard-to-Reach Energy Users Task. It delves deeply, via mixed methods research, into the question why well-intentioned energy
interventions don’t always turn out the way they were intended.
Making an inclusive and gender aware energy policy
This paper presents a synthesis of three case studies carried out within the sub-task 2 of the Gender and Energy Research Programme with some supporting evidence from other sources. The sub-task set out to gain an understanding of the systematic inertias in the sociotechnical energy system hindering the formation of gender aware policies and interventions and then to identify ways of countering the inertias.
The UsersTCP Academy builds on the success of a half century of webinars delivered through the DSM University. The new series provides access to the knowledge developed through our research programme and the work of our partners.