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The Digital Energy Futures research project is now closed. Our energy futures work continues in the RACE for 2030 Scenarios for Future Living project

Digital Energy Futures (DEF) is a world-first research project, spanning over four years and drawing on future-focused social science research, to better understand how emerging technologies are shaping the way people live – and ultimately, the future energy needs of Australian households.

DEF is a partnership between the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University, the Australian Research Council, Ausgrid, AusNet Services and Energy Consumers Australia Limited.

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Our social-science led research team are pioneering methodologies and conceptual approaches to understand and forecast digital energy futures.

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Read the latest research, reports and publications from the project.

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Report: future home life

Future Home Life uncovers the changing digital lifestyles and emerging home trends of everyday Australians, and speculates on how these social practices such as heating and cooling are likely to affect energy planning for future residential living.

DEF webinar at the ECA foresighting forum

We are excited to share with you details and priority registration for our #digitalenergyfutures event at the Energy Consumers Australia 2021 Foresighting Forum.

Gender and energy panel at the ACEF forum

Dr Kari Dahlgren will present at the Asian Clean Energy (ACEF) Forum about the need to account for gender and households in energy planning.

Watch: digital energy futures x ECA

Energy Consumers Australia (ECA) recently filmed researchers from the ETLab, to discuss the Digital Energy Futures project and how emerging technologies might impact household electricity demand.

Digital energy futures collaborates on dutch research

DEF researchers collaborated with Dr Lenneke Kuijer at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands for her project Exploring probable futures of summer comfort in Dutch households.

Event: powering future societies

Explore how future lifestyles will impact the electricity and tech industries.

Webinar: you can ask that

An informal one-hour Q&A panel discussion designed to give early-career researchers the opportunity to ask more experienced researchers about a particular research theme. The theme of this event is: Social research methods during the time of

Release of digital energy futures: review of industry trends, visions and scenarios for the home

Researchers from the Emerging Technologies Research Lab have conducted an analysis of how the energy and tech sectors predict our everyday lives will change in the home of the future. The report is the outcome of the first stage of a 3-year project

Monash Energy Institute profiles Dr Larissa Nicholls

Research Fellow Dr. Larissa Nicholls is a social scientist at ETLab exploring the hows and whys of human life in home environments. The Monash Energy Institute interviewed Larissa about her commitment towards equity, sustainability and wellbeing at

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Prof. Yolande Strengers, Chief Investigator
yolande.strengers@monash.edu

The research discussed on this website was supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council’s Linkage Projects funding Scheme (‘Digital Energy Futures’ project number LP180100203) in partnership with Monash University, Ausgrid, AusNet Services and Energy Consumers Australia.