20210426 ENGAGER TS2 module 1
Channel: GET-together seminars
Date: 2021-04-26

ENGAGER Training School 2: Mainstreaming Innovative Energy Poverty Metrics (http://www.engager-energy.net/trainingschool2/)

Module 1: Energy poverty metrology and digitisation for low-carbon energy infrastructure

Trainers: Siddharth Sareen, Tomas Moe Skjølsvold, Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg

As low-carbon energy transitions advance, energy infrastructure becomes increasingly digitised. Rapid evolution is apparent in European cities where retail electricity is remotely monitored and controlled through digital data flows of real-time use down to household scale. Applications across sectors are emerging, for instance with distributed rooftop solar photovoltaic generation and smart charging of electric transport solutions. Yet this digitisation risks excluding the energy poor or exacerbating existing disparities, unless it is explicitly designed to ensure just distributive effects. The Stavanger hub will draw on fieldwork in urban Norwegian contexts to illustrate scope to make digitisation for low-carbon energy infrastructure an inclusive and fair process. It will bring forth examples of emerging metrics and principles that can be widely applied as more contexts undergo digitisation in key energy infrastructure. The module features emerging insights from the JPI Climate funded project Responsive Organising for Low Emission Societies (ROLES) on socially inclusive digitisation of energy infrastructures (http://roles.w.uib.no).

0:00-46:45 minutes: Short lectures by trainers followed by plenary discussion

Energy poverty metrology and socio-spatial inclusion in digitisation at the urban scale – Siddharth Sareen
Reflections about social inclusion in digital innovation for urban mobility – Tomas Moe Skjølsvold
New dimensions of energy poverty? Evolving requirements for household electricity consumer flexibility – Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg

46:45-94:08 minutes: Presentation by trainee group followed by plenary discussion

Topic: What urban scale metrics can enable energy poverty alleviation in digitisation for low-carbon transition?

Vasileios Ntouros, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Ágos Gosztonyi, University of Helsinki
Rodrigo Felix, NOVA University of Lisbon
Miguel Sequeira, NOVA University of Lisbon

Recommended reading:

European energy poverty metrics: Scales, prospects and limits – S. Sareen, H. Thomson, S. Tirado Herrero, J. Gouveia, I. Lippert, A. Lis (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.glt.2020.01.003)
Promise of the obsolete: expectations for and experiments with self-driving vehicles in Norway. (B. Haugland, T. M. Skjølsvold (https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2020.1765677)
Centrally decentralising? Analysing key policies and pathways in Norway's electricity transitions – T. H. J. Inderberg (http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i3.2874)