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）。此前EPSRC资助的研究表明，超越技术创新和能源政策，了解其他政策领域如何影响能源需求的重要性（Cox等人，2019；Royston等人，2018；Butler等人，2018）。这种所谓的“隐形能源政策”的前沿研究议程代表了一个新兴但尚未解决的分析领域（Royston et al. 2018）。通过将教育部门的学院计划（AP）重新定义为“非能源”或“无形能源”政策，该项目将有助于对非能源政策对能源需求的影响的基本理解。该项目直接关注政策和实践，目标是能源使用和人类活动交叉的更广泛的社会和监管环境。该项目涉及与曼宁导师及其学院合作伙伴合作，共同设计案例传记访谈问题，并检查两种类型的次要纵向数据：文献和能源使用。这项研究将有助于“非能源政策”的学术辩论和更广泛的关于教育中减少能源需求的社会辩论。为了为未来的实践和政策提供信息，研究结果将被编入（共同编写的）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磋商更广泛地分发。

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.