Invisible Energy and the Academies Programme: Challenges and Opportunities for energy demand reduction

减少能源需求已被确定为英国政府应对气候变化和实现净零目标承诺的核心(Eyre和Killip，2019年)。EPSRC以前资助的研究已经表明了超越技术创新和能源政策来了解其他政策领域如何影响能源需求的重要性(Cox等人。2019年；Royston等人。2018年；巴特勒等人。2018年)。对所谓的“无形能源政策”的这一前沿研究议程代表了一个新兴但尚未解决的分析领域(Royston等人。2018年)。通过将教育部门的学院计划[AP]重新制定为“非能源”或“无形能源”政策，该项目将有助于从根本上理解非能源政策对能源需求的影响。该项目直接侧重于政策和实践，目标是能源使用和人类行动相交的更广泛的社会和监管环境。该项目涉及与曼宁的导师[MT]及其学院合作伙伴合作，共同设计案例传记面试问题，并审查两种类型的二级纵向数据：纪录片和能源使用情况。这项研究将有助于关于“非能源政策”的学术辩论，以及关于减少教育中的能源需求的更广泛的社会辩论。为了向未来的实践和政策提供信息，结果将被编入(共同制作的)减少需求建议，这些建议将直接提供给合作者的实践，并通过能源研讨会和政策咨询更广泛地传播。

Energy demand reduction has been identified as core to the UK government's efforts to address climate change and meet commitments to net zero targets (Eyre and Killip, 2019). Previous EPSRC funded research has signalled the importance of looking beyond technological innovation and energy policy to understand how other policy areas impact energy demand (Cox et al. 2019; Royston et al. 2018; Butler et al. 2018). This cutting-edge research agenda into so called 'invisible energy policy' represents a burgeoning but as yet under addressed area of analysis (Royston et al. 2018). By re-framing the Academies Programme [AP] in the education sector as a 'non-energy' or 'invisible energy' policy, this project will contribute to essential understandings of the effects of non-energy policy on energy demand. With its direct focus on policy and practice, this project targets the broader social and regulatory environments within which energy use and human actions intersect. The project involves collaboration with Manning's Tutors [MT] and their academy partners to co-design case biography interview questions and examine two types of secondary longitudinal data: documentary and energy use. The research will contribute to the academic debate on 'non-energy policy' and wider societal debates on energy demand reduction in education. To inform future practice and policy, the results will be codified into (coproduced) demand reduction recommendations that will feed directly into the collaborators' practice, as well as being distributed more widely through energy seminars and policy consultations.