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This week's #fridayfuelpovertyfinds is a spotlight on reading that has been designed and trialed with households at risk of fuel poverty, rather than work that aims to make recommendations to policy and decision makers and doesn't work with households to take action
We don't know what the solutions to #fuelpoverty will be in the future smart low carbon energy system, we need to trial/pilot things with people in their homes in the context of their normal everyday lives to know what will work well for them.
E.g. How will people want to share their data and who with? How warm will they want their home and when? What new things might they want to do with new heating systems that we can't currently do? How will people find buy energy in new ways from new organisations?
There is so much to be learnt by working WITH households living in fuel poverty - they are the experts, not policy or decision makers alone, as the phrase goes: nothing about us, without us, is for us.
Want to read some stuff that takes this approach?
Some great projects have design and trialed new ways of providing ppl with health conditions the energy they need such as this from Gentoo Housing https://www.gentoogroup.com/for-customers/news/2016/march/boilers-on-prescription-scheme-reduces-gp-appointments-by-60/
Some great projects have design and trialed new ways of providing ppl with health conditions the energy they need such as this from Gentoo Housing https://www.gentoogroup.com/for-customers/news/2016/march/boilers-on-prescription-scheme-reduces-gp-appointments-by-60/
and @EnergySysCat recently prototyped and trialed how
these sort of "Warmth on Prescription" scheme could work in a future smart energy world http://www.peoplelab.energy/2020/07/21/warmth-on-prescription/
these sort of "Warmth on Prescription" scheme could work in a future smart energy world http://www.peoplelab.energy/2020/07/21/warmth-on-prescription/
There is loads to learn from designing and trialing new types of energy offers to consumers, as ESC did with Heat As A Service with people - yes, actually letting people buy heat as a service in the first trial http://www.peoplelab.energy/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/From-Kilowatt-hours-to-Warm-Hours.pdf
I love this project and working in the open approach that @BromfordLab took on designing and testing solutions to fuel poverty https://www.bromfordlab.com/labblogcontent/2016/3/9/affor
Also from them too, is this experiment for a Home Maintenance Coach https://www.bromfordlab.com/home-maintenance-coach which has some great new learnings
Also from them too, is this experiment for a Home Maintenance Coach https://www.bromfordlab.com/home-maintenance-coach which has some great new learnings
Hope if you've read this far you have found some new things to read and discuss!
