Welfare, Employment and Energy Demand: Examining Tensions and Opportunities in the Delivery of Demand Reduction

福利、就业和能源需求：审视减少需求过程中的紧张局势和机遇

• 批准号: EP/M008150/1
• 负责人: Catherine Butler
• 金额: $ 30.89万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2014 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FM008150%2F1
• 关键词: Welfare; Employment; Energy; Demand; Examining

Energy demand reduction is a key issue for the UK as it is necessary to meet several national policy goals, including energy security, carbon emissions targets and wider sustainability aims. The challenges involved in achieving this are significant and in general there is strong recognition that it will not be achieved through technological change alone but will require changes in the way that we use energy as part of daily life. What energy is used for is in part a reflection of how governments shape objectives and investments across many different policy domains. It follows that non-energy policies, for example, relating to economic development, health and safety or consumer choice, can have major implications for energy demand. This proposed project takes on the challenge of identifying the unintended energy demand consequences of policies beyond those focused specifically on energy. The research uses the policy area of welfare and employment as a case because it includes goals that have implications in terms of increasing energy demand (e.g. economic growth), reproducing particular temporal patterns of demand (e.g. through employment policies), and reducing demand (e.g. across welfare policies, such as for housing). The project aims to offer insight into; 1) the role of non-energy policy in the constitution of energy use and needs; and 2) the tensions and opportunities that arise in using non-energy policy to transform energy demand.The research will address the following key questions: 1) How do welfare and employment policies contribute to the construction of needs, entitlements, and expectations, with regard to energy usage? 2) Which policy goals and associated strategies in this area conflict with aims for reducing energy usage and what opportunities exist for synergy?3) How can policy-makers reconcile conflicting policy objectives and achieve welfare and employment goals in ways commensurate with reducing energy demand?These research questions will be addressed through a programme of empirical research split across three interlinked work packages. Work package 1 focuses on reviewing and mapping current welfare and employment policies, along with relevant literature, empirical research and secondary data to facilitate assessment of energy demand impacts. Work package 2 builds on the review work by undertaking in-depth qualitative interviews with policy-makers and other stakeholders in the areas of welfare and employment. Work package 3 involves deliberative forum workshops with people working in both energy and welfare and employment across policy (national and regional), policy delivery, NGO's and other relevant institutions. The project will generate a rich novel data set that will be used to interrogate important questions about the role of non-energy policy in energy demand reduction. The lessons learned from this case study will inform processes of policy-making and innovation for energy demand reduction.

减少能源需求是英国的一个关键问题，因为它是必要的，以满足几个国家政策目标，包括能源安全，碳排放目标和更广泛的可持续发展目标。实现这一目标所面临的挑战是巨大的，一般都强烈认识到，这不仅仅是通过技术变革来实现的，还需要改变我们日常生活中使用能源的方式。能源的用途在一定程度上反映了政府如何在许多不同的政策领域制定目标和投资。因此，非能源政策，例如与经济发展、健康和安全或消费者选择有关的政策，可能对能源需求产生重大影响。这一拟议项目承担的挑战是，确定那些专门侧重于能源的政策以外的意外能源需求后果。这项研究使用福利和就业政策领域作为案例，因为它包括在增加能源需求（如经济增长）、再现特定的需求时间模式（如通过就业政策）和减少需求（如住房等福利政策）方面具有影响的目标。本研究的目的是：1）非能源政策在能源使用和需求构成中的作用; 2）利用非能源政策改变能源需求时产生的紧张关系和机会。本研究将解决以下关键问题：1）福利和就业政策如何有助于构建能源使用方面的需求、权利和期望？2)这一领域的哪些政策目标和相关战略与减少能源使用的目标相冲突，存在哪些协同增效的机会？3)决策者如何能够调和相互冲突的政策目标，并以与减少能源需求相称的方式实现福利和就业目标？这些研究问题将通过一个经验研究方案加以解决，该方案分为三个相互关联的一揽子工作。第一套工作侧重于审查和绘制现行福利和就业政策，沿着有关文献、经验研究和二手数据，以便利评估能源需求的影响。第二套工作方案以审查工作为基础，对福利和就业领域的决策者和其他利益攸关方进行了深入的定性访谈。第三套工作方案包括与能源、福利和就业领域的工作人员举行审议论坛讲习班，涉及政策（国家和区域）、政策执行、非政府组织和其他相关机构。该项目将产生一个丰富的新数据集，用于询问有关非能源政策在减少能源需求方面的作用的重要问题。从这一案例研究中吸取的经验教训将为减少能源需求的决策和创新过程提供信息。

项目成果

Distributing power? Community energy projects' experiences of planning, policy and incumbents in the devolved nations of Scotland and Wales

• DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2018.1453490
• 发表时间: 2019-05
• 期刊: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
• 影响因子: 3.9
• 作者: Sioned Haf;K. Parkhill;M. McDonald;G. Griffiths

Energy Poverty, Practice, and Policy

能源贫困、实践和政策

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99432-7
• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Butler C

Rethinking energy demand governance: Exploring impact beyond 'energy' policy

重新思考能源需求治理：探索“能源”政策之外的影响

• DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2017.11.011
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Energy Research & Social Science
• 影响因子: 6.7
• 作者: Butler C

Routledge Research Companion to Energy Geographies

劳特利奇能源地理学研究伙伴

• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Butler, C.

The Muillean Gaoithe and the Melin Wynt: Cultural sustainability and community owned wind energy schemes in Gaelic and Welsh speaking communities in the United Kingdom

• DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2017.05.017
• 发表时间: 2017-07-01
• 期刊: ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
• 影响因子: 6.7
• 作者: Haf, Sioned;Parkhill, Karen
• 通讯作者: Parkhill, Karen