New Report: Foresights for Future Living
Foresights for Future Living, the most recent report from the Digital Energy Futures project, explores how people — their values, routines, and response to emerging tech — are at the center of key questions and challenges faced by energy futures and forecasting.
Current and future digital transformation, alongside environmental, social and cultural transformations related to climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, have created a new context for the energy industry which demands updated and future-ready theories,
concepts and knowledge.
Foresights for Future Living reframes current assumptions held by the energy industry about how people do, or will, interact with energy and technology. The report also presents key foresights into what Australians want in the immediate future for better adoption of electric vehicles and battery charging, energy needs associated with cleaner air technologies and in the long-term foresights into changing energy needs to match a changing climate.
When speaking to electric vehicles, just one of the key challenges and opportunities covered in the report, lead author and ETLab Director Professor Sarah Pink Lead author said, "...insights can be an important guide to shape the future of our energy systems. It is important that policymakers understand how people are likely to adopt electric vehicles. Building energy support and infrastructure which evenly supports diverse populations, in rural and urban communities alike will help to avoid inequalities in switching to electric vehicles.”
Read more about this, and other findings in the full report.
View the media release here.
This research is 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.