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Louise Sunderland@louisesunderland.bsky.social |
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Energy policy, energy justice. People are the centre of the clean energy transition. Managing Principal at Regulatory Assistance Project. Member, South East London Community Energy. Views my own. @sunderlandlouis /in/louise-sunderland-5474b848
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Louise Sunderland
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More resources:
❓All you need to know about Social Climate Fund #SCF carbonmarketwatch.org/2024/07/01/f...
📢 Hear from national energy poverty observatories in 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇮🇹 socialwatt.eu/en/node/91
🎯What size is ringfence of energy savings for #energypoor households in your country? tinyurl.com/yu8umw9m
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Louise Sunderland
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Read the paper that accompanies the video. It provides guidance to implementers on design of energy poverty programmes.
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Louise Sunderland
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New EU #energypoverty alleviation framework is big!
📺I made a video explainer. Listen to the video as a presentation/podcast or use it as a resource to fast forward, pause & take note of the detail in each slide.
More resources in thread.
@regassistproj.bsky.social
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Louise Sunderland
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I pulled together guidance and examples for implementers addressing 7 key challenges in designing alleviation schemes. These are the questions that come up again and again. What other questions are implementers grappling with?? 3/3
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Good news:
A lot of new measures for alleviating #energypoverty & increasing #consumerprotection
Challenge:
Complexity - provisions are spread across many Directives. #EMD #EED #EPBD #ETS #SCF. It’s hard to understand and implement.
Watch for video explainer this week...
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Louise Sunderland
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What are the prospects for #energypoverty alleviation in the EU?
My NEW PAPER summarises the measures to reduce energy #inequity in the EU #Fitfor55 framework and offers examples and guidance on implementation. 👇
@regassistproj.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/53kt7a65
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BEUC - The Consumer Voice
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On 26 April, we'll unveil our new report looking at whether consumers really benefit from dynamic price tariffs. Join us and our panel of experts to discuss how the situation can be improved for consumers, businesses and the climate alike. #ConsumerDebates beuc.eu/events/consu...
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Louise Sunderland
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🌟I'm tickled pink to be invited to Chair the Advisory Board of the UK's Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC).
The centre unites researchers, thinkers, experts & new voices from across UK's leading universities to address today's & tomorrow's energy demand challenges.
www.edrc.ac.uk
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Louise Sunderland
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I really enjoyed talking with @marinenextenerg.bsky.social and Sophie Yule-Bennett for the Energ’Ethic podcast.
We talked about our paper Flex-Ability for All & how we collaborate & deal with uncertainty in pushing for a more equitable energy transition.
www.nextenergyconsumer.eu/podcast/
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Louise Sunderland
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Agree, this really is a great blog.
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Grids in the Netherlands are starting to resemble highways around the holidays: lots of congestion from too much traffic. In this case: renewables and new load. The government and the regulator came out with a list of options to deal with the gridlock. bit.ly/3vUgwds
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Andreas Jahn
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Neue Studie! Megawatt #Laden für #LKWs ist eine Chance die #EU #Strom und #Netze für die #Energiewende fit zu machen! Julia Hildermeier und ich haben die Kosten von Megawatt-Ladestationen in 4 europäischen Grenzregionen mit hohem Güterverkehrsaufkommen analysiert. www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...
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Louise Sunderland
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Yes, the flexibility capital approach and the tech/socially derived distinction is such an eye opener isn't it. It was so helpful for our thinking. This is the great work of @mikefsway.bsky.social and Gareth Powells. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Bram Claeys
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🔌💡Socially inclusive demand-side flex in EU - @regassistproj.bsky.social
Especially liked this "flexibility capital divide" graph to understand people's ability to interact with energy system.
Thx @sophieyulebennett.bsky.social @louisesunderland.bsky.social
www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...
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Deborah Bynum
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Benefits of innovation like #DemandSideFlexibility in #EnergyTransition often go to early-adopters, more affluent people
@sophieyulebennett.bsky.social & @louisesunderland.bsky.social explore how to design policies to bring value of flexibility to lower-income, vulnerable households
bit.ly/421rpGt
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Louise Sunderland
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Thanks Iain. You are so right. Making flexibility appealing and beneficial for those who are most risk averse and not necessarily engaged, not just early adopters and keenies, is a way to make it appealing to everyone. #inclusivedesign
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Flex-for-all progress? Some are exploring: 🌞🔋 Smart controls + new/existing tech for savings/comfort. Eg EnergyCloud and Warmworks. 👍‘Upside only offers’ - opportunities s for flex savings w/o price risk. Eg Octopus Energy. We now need a robust strategy to bring benefits to all🇪🇺 9/10
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Three no regrets policy steps towards inclusive flex 🤓 💡Ensure schemes target flex in a way that meets household needs 💡 Prioritise low income homes for deployment of tech, support & services 💡 Support innovators to build a bridge to flex, with low-risk retail offers 8/9
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Europe needs vision for inclusive flex that: ✅ Opens direct savings to those who need them most ✅ Is easy, stress-free ✅ Offers savings without sacrificing comfort or wellbeing ✅ Works alongside price protections & social support Beyond access, we must see & meet needs 7/9
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Households with poor flex-ability:
⚖️Risk higher bills or energy rationing
⚖️Rely more on manual actions over tech
⚖️May already be living under strain of poverty
⚖️Are underserved by life-enhancing offers & services
Intervention required to prevent an ever-widening gap🌉 6/9
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Louise Sunderland
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Flex-ability is unevenly spread across society. 🚧People need affordable flexible techs, agency (e.g. for tenants), + tariffs & offers without risk to bills Innovation favours affluent early adopters. The aim is benefits filter to all - but this isn’t certain or quick⏳ 5/9
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Flex-ability = household ability to obtain flex benefits with ease⚡💆♀️ Flex-ability is super-sized by tech - heat pumps, batteries, EVs, rooftop solar and energy efficiency - combined with user-friendly retail offers🌞🔋 Smartmeters and high-speed internet are required📱 4/9
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Home is where the smart is🏡
Homes = biggest source of EU demand flex potential by 2030, with electric heating & #EVs 🚗
Harnessing flex is vital for grid stability & lowest cost decarb.
- EU must double flex by 2030 for Net Zero 2050.
- €300bn indirect savings are at stake 🇪🇺 💶
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Louise Sunderland
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The value of time⏰ 💶
When we use will increasingly determine bills, rather than just how much 🌃 🌆
Wholesale and retail #EnergyMarkets are evolving, incentivising us to shift more of our energy use to off-peak times and periods of cheaper, plentiful green generation on the grid⚡
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Louise Sunderland
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⚡️NEW REPORT⚡️
How do we ensure #DemandSideFlexibility benefits are available and attractive to lower income and vulnerable households?🤔💶🌡
New @RegAssistProj 🇪🇺 paper from @sophieyulebennett.bsky.social and me explores policy strategies for inclusive flexibility bit.ly/421rpGt 1/9
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Bram Claeys
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🔌💡NEW: @energycities.bsky.social briefing for municipalities about long-term contracts for renewables.
- Price hedge
- Sustainability goals
- Local/social economy
Incl. advice on how to tackle complexity/risks.
@adrianhiel.bsky.social @regassistproj.bsky.social
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Jaap Burger
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ACER🇪🇺 has published its report on barriers to demand response and distributed energy resources. It's a report that's sure to be a go-to resource for the next year, and the attached (🧵) selection of figures from the report may give you reasons to put it at the top of your reading list for next year.
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Louise Sunderland
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Very much enjoying my bus to the Eurostar today 🏳️🌈. It’s leccy too. ⚡️🚍 Low carbon travel gives you a nice feeling.
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Louise Sunderland
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Great (paid) internship opportunity in a great team!
Energy Poverty Policy Assistant with FEANTSA (European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless)
Deadline: 4th of February, 23:59 Brussels time
www.feantsa.org/public/user/...
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Louise Sunderland
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Ah, sorry. My mistake. I'm too used to Twitter. Assuming the worst!
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Louise Sunderland
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In defence of the blog - it shows 64% of replacements are when the boiler is broken down, 36% when faulty. From EU customer survey. The 64% might be slightly high - I know UK data, for eg, shows a much lower percentage are actually broken and unrepairable. But this is why we focus on preparation.
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Louise Sunderland
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I hope no one's boiler has broken this holiday period.
If it does, an emergency replacement of a fossil fuel boiler can be a missed opportunity to switch to renewable heat.
Marion Santini & I set out steps to avoid breakdowns resulting in ff lock in.
foresightdk.com/boiler-alert...
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Louise Sunderland
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The EU building sector is not on track for climate goals. Failing on renovation is failing on warm homes & reduced bills. "The EPBD has been highly politicised. But the benefits of a strong agreement far outweigh the risk of accepting lackadaisical legislation, which must be avoided at all costs."
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