Energy
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Social sustainability indicators as performance
We are living in an era of the audit. Sustainability indicators are used to ensure that industries are behaving responsibly. The audits are well elaborated in their environmental requirements, but they are often less ... -
The Universal Precautionary Principle: New Pillars and Pathways for Environmental, Sociocultural, and Economic Resilience
Global environmental degradation is linked to a worldwide erosion of ethnic identity and cultural diversity, as well as market disruption. Cultures rely heavily on the local environment around them, and local communities ... -
Energy-saving behaviour as a demand-side management strategy in the developing world: the case of Bangladesh
Although demand-side management (DSM) needs to be more customer centred, either with or without smart technologies (e.g. smart grid), less attention has been paid to the developing world in relation to DSM strategy ... -
Identifying residential daily electricity-use profiles through time-segmented regression analysis
In many countries the residential sector contributes significantly to peak demand. Some of the promising approaches to reduce these peaks, such as energy efficiency and demand-side management (DSM) programmes, currently ... -
Dunedin Energy Study 2017-2018
The Dunedin Energy Study is a joint research project between the Dunedin City Council (DCC) and the Centre for Sustainability at the University of Otago. The study takes stock of, and analyses energy inputs into the city ... -
Hybrid Neoliberalism: Implications for Sustainable Development
Neoliberalism is frequently blamed for challenges in achieving sustainable development; consequently some also question if sustainability is still a useful concept. Neoliberal influence on natural resource management has ... -
Household factors and electrical peak demand : a review for further assessment.
At least one-third of the total electricity generation of a country is consumed by the residential sector, which is one of the most unpredictable consumer groups with respect to electricity usage and thus risks network ... -
Estimating the Technical Potential of Residential Demand Response in New Zealand: A Summary of Results
This report was prepared by researchers at the University of Otago as part of the GREEN Grid project funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. The report summarises our order-of-magnitude estimates of ... -
Estimating the Technical Potential for Residential Demand Response in New Zealand
This report estimates the maximum technical potential for demand response (DR) for three appliances in New Zealand’s residential sector. On-demand electricity load reduction, particularly at times of peak demand, enhances ... -
Urban Freight Research (1972-2014)
The transportation sector is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and consequently, anthropogenic climate change. Transitioning to low-carbon policies, technologies and behaviours could provide ... -
New Zealand GREEN grid household electricity demand study 2014-2018
The NZ GREEN Grid project recruited a sample of 25 households in each of two regions of New Zealand (Stephenson et al. 2017). The first sample was recruited in early 2014 and the second in early 2015. Research data includes: ... -
The politics of energy scenarios: Are International Energy Agency and other conservative projections hampering the renewable energy transition?
Scenario-building assists commissioning organisations to understand the multiple forces that shape their future. Governments and investors use the scenario projections of authoritative organisations to help drive their ... -
Potential future changes to residential electricity load profiles – findings from the GridSpy dataset
In this report we have investigated the effect a number of important new household appliances and changing patterns of device use may have on daily residential demand profiles. The results show a significant effect at high ... -
Sustainability cultures and energy research: An actor-centred interpretation of cultural theory
The energy cultures framework has had widespread use in studies of the energy-related implications of habitual behaviour and behaviour change, and to other topics including mobility, water and carbon-related outcomes. As ... -
Deep interventions for a sustainable transport future
The dominance of automobility is giving rise to unsustainable outcomes, not least of which is its contribution to climate change. At the same time, business-as-usual transport systems are entering a period of turbulence ... -
Kids and Kilowatts: Socialisation, energy efficiency, and electricity consumption in New Zealand
Socialisation into electricity consumption usually occurs during childhood, but little is known about the socialisation processes involved. Here, we use interviews and focus groups to investigate how nine to ten-year-old ... -
Shared mobility in a Maori community
Shared mobility is being advanced as a novel, technologically sophisticated approach to reducing the environmental impacts of high levels of car ownership. However, communities have long shared modes of transport for ...