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Developing an energy-related Time-Use Diary for gaining insights into New Zealand households’ electricity consumption
Sustainable development is vital for the future wellbeing of our society. In the energy sector, sustainability involves reforming the energy supply and demand patterns, including using more renewable energy, reducing ...
Smart Grid Edge Technologies Case Studies of Early Adopters
The future management of New Zealand’s electricity grid will be impacted by changes in the way that consumers interact with electricity.
These include uptake of micro-generation, electric vehicles, storage, and energy ...
Prosumer collectives: a review
The widespread growth globally of micro-generation (particularly PV) means that consumers are
interacting with electricity systems in new ways, becoming ‘energy prosumers’ – both producing
and consuming energy.
We define ...
Energy Cultures 2: Data Mining: Trends in Household and Business Energy Use
This document summarises the major trends in energy use in New Zealand over the last 20 years or morefor which data is available. The major features that the data show are:
• Energy efficiency in some sectors is increasing, ...
Personalized Energy Priorities: A User-Centric Application for Energy Advice
This research presents a new web-based application, called Personalised Energy Priorities (PEP), that provides households with personalised and tailored advice on practices or technologies they might adopt to improve the ...
Giving Voice to the ‘Silent Majority’ exploring the opinions and motivations of people who do not make submissions
There appears to be widespread assumption that there is a 'silent majority' of people who support proposals but do not make submissions, and that those who do make submissions tend to be opposed and therefore do not reflect ...
Social Acceptance of Renewable Electricity Developments in New Zealand
This report, and the research which informs it, was commissioned by the Energy Efficiency
and Conservation Authority (EECA). Its purpose is to examine whether societal acceptance
issues are significantly limiting the ...
Contrasting approaches to fuel poverty in New Zealand
We contrast two measures of fuel poverty in New Zealand. The first is based on estimated expenditure of over 10% of household income on fuel. The second is self-reported deprivation of fuel because of an inability to afford ...
Smart Homes: What New Zealanders think, have, and want.
Smart home technologies (such as smart thermostats, smart appliances, smart plugs, and smart lights) can communicate within the home enabling improved, remote and autonomous control over appliances, leading to greater ...
Evaluating the impact of energy interventions: home audits vs. community events
New Zealand’s housing stock tends to be of low thermal quality that can adversely affect the health and well-being of occupants as well as costing more than necessary to heat. Householders need information and motivation ...