Building Social License for Flexibility: Gender, Diversity, and Energy Communities
Abstract: The Social License to Automate 2.0 Task has explored the role of gender- and diversity factors in flexibility, the potential of energy communities to contribute to the granting of a social license for flexibility and automation, as well as what can be learned from energy consumption profiles regarding flexibility potential when a gender- and […]
Social License to Automate 2.0: Understanding the role of gender, age and income in demand side management participation potential
Abstract: In order to reach the full potential of the increased demand side flexibility needed for the energy transition, end-users need to be on board with allowing automated processes to impact their energy consumption. To allow for broad upscaling of such automated demand side management (DSM) programs that provide fair and inclusive participation opportunities, a […]
Making a social license to automate demand side flexibility
Abstract: Establishing the ‘who’, ‘why’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ of the management of the distributed energy resources (such as rooftop solar, home batteries and smart home energy management systems) proliferating across many countries is becoming increasingly crucial to energy policy. As various approaches to automating demand side flexibility are trialled, the idea of a ‘social license’ […]
