Meeting the goals enshrined in the Paris Agreement and limiting global temperature increases to less than two degrees above pre-industrial levels demands rapid reductions in global carbon dioxide emissions. Reducing energy demand has a central role in achieving this goal, but existing policy initiatives have been largely incremental in terms of the technological and behavioural changes they encourage. Against this background, this book develops a sociotechnical approach to the challenge of reducing energy demand and illustrates this with a number of empirical case studies from the United Kingdom. In doing so, it explores the emergence, diffusion and impact of low energy innovations, including electric vehicles and smart meters. The book has the dual aim of improving the academic understanding of sociotechnical transitions and energy demand and providing practical recommendations for public policy. Combining an impressive range of contributions from key thinkers in the field, this book will be of great interest to energy students, scholars and decision-makers.

New directions in energy demand research / Kirsten E.H. Jenkins, Steve Sorrell, Debbie Hopkins and Cameron Roberts -- Of emergence, diffusion and impact: a sociotechnical perspective on researching energy demand / Frank W. Geels, Benjamin K. Sovacool and Steve Sorrell -- A normative approach to transitions in energy demand: an energy justice and fuel poverty case study / Kirsten E.H. Jenkins and Mari Martiskainen -- Electric vehicles and the future of personal mobility in the United Kingdom / Noam Bergman -- Experimentation with vehicle automation / Debbie Hopkins and Tim Schwanen -- The United Kingdom smart meter rollout through an energy justice lens / Kirsten E.H. Jenkins, Benjamin K. Sovacool and Sabine Hielscher -- Overcoming the systemic challenges of retrofitting residential buildings in the United Kingdom, a herculean task? / Donal Brown, Paula Kivimaa, Jan Rosenow and Mari Martiskainen -- Exergy economics: new insights into energy consumption and economic growth / Paul Brockway, Steve Sorrell, Tim Foxon and Jack Miller -- Energy saving innovations and economy wide rebound effects / Gioele Figus, Karen Turner and Antonios Katris -- Political acceleration of sociotechnical transitions: lessons from four historical case studies / Cameron Roberts and Frank W. Geels -- The challenge of effective energy efficiency policy in the United Kingdom / Janette Webb -- Policy mixes for sustainable energy transitions: the case of energy efficiency / Florian Kern, Paula Kivimaa, Karoline Rogge and Jan Rosenow -- Managing energy and climate transitions in theory and practice: a critical systematic review of strategic niche management / Kirsten E.H. Jenkins and Benjamin K. Sovacool -- Towards systematic reductions in energy demand / Kirsten E.H. Jenkins, Debbie Hopkins and Cameron Roberts.

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