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Electric Micromobility: how to cut emissions, create jobs and transform urban transport

September 1, 2021 by Jennifer Dungs

What if e-bikes, electric scooters and electric skateboards were added to walking and cycling in our attempts to reduce emissions through behaviour change? It’s a promising solution for all those people who genuinely want to reduce their emissions but don’t want the extra exercise. Quoting from their report, Jennifer Dungs at EIT InnoEnergy looks at the gains to be made, along with a valuable reduction in city congestion. Micromobility is still … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: batteries, BehaviourChange, Covid, cycling, ebikes, emissions, escooters, Europe, France, Germany, micromobility, pandemic, smartcities, transport

We need Behaviour Change and “Life Efficiency”, because efficiency gains and clean energy will never be enough

July 23, 2020 by Schalk Cloete

Behaviour change – reducing emissions by changing how we live our lives - should be part of every government and think tank’s sustainable scenario, explains Schalk Cloete. That’s because impressive advances in energy efficiency and clean energy won’t be enough to contain the emissions of a world continuing with the essential task of lifting billions of people out of poverty. But this should not be seen as a problem, says Cloete, because behaviour … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies Tagged With: BehaviourChange, efficiency, emissions, happiness, inequality, infrastructure, jobs, renewables, smartcities

Beyond pilots: scaling up energy innovation in cities

April 14, 2020 by Bax Company

Our current electricity grid was built hundreds of years ago, when power generation was centralised and our energy needs were far simpler. Electricity was distributed from large stable power plants to the consumers through a unidirectional flow that was easily predictable and did not require complex control. But over the last decades, cities have been going through a substantial change, seeing an exponential increase of their energy needs which … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Community, EU Policy, Innovations, Platform, Smartgrids Tagged With: climate change, ERDF, low-carbon, smart grids, smartcities, smartgrids

Behaviour Change: measuring complex mobility options to make cities smarter

November 18, 2019 by Anya Breitenbach

How do you factor future behaviour change into transport, housing, workplace and energy infrastructure planning? Clearly, future plans based on past behaviour will end up being wrong. And metrics that tell us which behaviour is most efficient can point us in better directions. We won’t find the answer until we start measuring it. That’s why the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is leading a collaboration of U.S. government and academia … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies, Transport and energy Tagged With: BehaviourChange, emissions, housing, infrastructure, mobility, policies, smartcities, transport

An independent Global Energy Forecast to 2050 (part 5 of 5): Electric cars

November 15, 2019 by Schalk Cloete

Schalk Cloete has completed his own 5-part independent Global Energy Forecast to 2050, to compare with this year’s IEA World Energy Outlook, published this week. Underpinning all his predictions is his bet that the world will adopt tech-neutral policies (i.e. not backing any one technology over another) in 2030 as the best and only way to accelerate the transition to meet the 2050 goals. Given that, he sees the traditional fossil fuel ICE’s share … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies, Transport and energy Tagged With: BEVs, biofuels, emissions, EVs, ICEs, PHEVs, smartcities, transport, WEO2019

Energy security v Transition in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Turkey

October 1, 2019 by Duygu Sever

Like most developing countries, the challenge of growing economies, increasing population and rapid urbanisation puts energy security above emissions reductions. So it is for Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Turkey, says Duygu Sever in her report for IFRI Centre for Energy & Climate. In this article she explains that all four countries nevertheless have high renewables deployment potential, and have already embraced wind and solar. To accelerate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies Tagged With: Algeria, efficiency, egypt, emissions, fossilfuels, investment, Morocco, Nuclear, policy, renewables, smartcities, subsidies, transport, turkey

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