Releases
Household and home business report: Emerging lifestyles preferences and practices
This report presents findings from the first national Scenarios for Future Living (SFL) household survey, completed by more than 5,000 Australians in April–May 2025.
The State of Grid Transition 2026
This report aims to stimulate and initiate a new wave of industry engagement by evaluating the current state of electricity grid transition. Focusing specifically on transition in the National Electricity Market and associated grid, it informs a program of work for 2026 including five Grid Transition Masterclasses and a Consumer Grid Summit.
Scenarios for future living: Emerging technology innovation and development
Identifying emerging consumer-facing technology trends likely to impact the future energy system and residential sector. This report represents the key output of work package 2 (WP2) of the Scenarios for Future Living (SFL) project.
Insights from an Australian Energy Living Lab: Understanding household energy use in transition
This report presents findings from the first phase of the Living Lab study within Work Package 7 (WP7) of the RACE2030 Scenarios for Future Living project. It presents insights from a 35-household Living Lab, where longitudinal engagement enabled a nuanced understanding of how households use energy, how decisions are made, and how practices evolve over time.
The value of model-based systems engineering for Scenarios for future living
This report demonstrates how Model Based Systems Engineering can represent measurement instruments, household characteristics, and selected relationships between household observations and the broader multi-energy system.