Housing energy efficiency transitions
This project investigates the lived experience of energy poverty and low carbon retrofit in Australian households, in addition to investigating the scaling up of retrofit service providers. The project provides a socio-material analysis of retrofit that includes householders as well as the businesses that supply retrofit services.
Mapping cross-national conceptions of essential energy to advance housing energy justice
Universal access to essential energy is a United Nation Sustainable Development Goal and a derived human right linked to health and adequate housing, however, ‘essential energy’ is not well defined and context specific. As a result, low carbon housing initiatives risk overlooking vulnerabilities and inadvertently (re)producing energy poverty.
Solar control and passive thermal management in nanostructured window coatings
This project aims to develop novel materials that can provide near infrared shielding properties, while maintaining high transparency in the visible region, to be used as energy saving window coatings.
Understanding householder electricity and gas practices – Managing the transition of vulnerable customers towards future fuels
Responding to the industry need to better understand how people use and trade off gas and electricity in their homes, this mixed methods study will explain householder energy consumption patterns and practices, how they feel about and respond to different energy sources and how these are shaped by, or shape, vulnerability and affordability.
