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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Energy Transitions: Lighting in Vanuatu
Lighting Vanuatu began in 2010 as a two-year project funded through The Australian Aid - Governance for Growth Programme. The primary objective of the project was to increase access of portable solar lanterns for rural ...
The energy cultures framework: Exploring the role of norms, practices and material culture in shaping energy behaviour in New Zealand
The energy cultures framework was developed in 2009 to support interdisciplinary investigation into
energy behaviour in New Zealand. In this paper, we discuss the framework in light of 5 years of empirical
application ...
Energy Transitions: Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS)
Home Energy Management (HEM) offers the potential to help manage peak electricity demand and network constraints – crucial for efficient infrastructure – yet to date is underdeveloped in New Zealand. This presentation ...
Transport Transitions in New Zealand: A scoping study
As concerns about energy security and green house gas emissions become more pronounces, establishing an energy-efficient low-carbon transport system has increasingly become a priority for businesses, government and ...
Energy Cultures: Implications for Policymakers
The Energy Cultures research project (2009-2012) was planned to help inform policy making related to residential energy use and energy efficiency in New Zealand. It sought, in part, to help address the difficulties faced ...