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EECA and Sustainable Energy Research
Plans and Opportunities
Dr Sea Rotmann, OERC Symposium 2008
How do we fit into the wider energy research landscape in NZ?
Wider strategic context
• Developing a NZ Sustainable Energy Research Strategy (under SEOG)
• Collaborating on a Demand Side Research Strategy (for FRST, with NERI)
• Supporting NZES/NZEECS/NZTS• Including multi-stakeholder, multi-
disciplinary, whole energy systems approach
• Supporting FRST and MoRST (operational and policy)
• Support NERI and partners• Capability building• International linkages
EECA internal research
• Programme-specific, operational research short-term, largely applied, technical or policy research, some monitoring and data gathering (usually consultants, 1-3 months)
• Longer-term, strategic, collaborative research (cross government or FRST funded research, 1-5 years)
Two main strategic streams
End-use Service Benefits Research Programme
Objective – to understand more fully the direct and indirect benefits to end users and the economy from
energy efficiency interventions.
End-user understandingObjective – to understand more fully the underlying
value drivers that influence end user behaviour and barriers to uptake of sustainable energy
Examples of EECA research projects
• Energy Domain Plan• HEEP/BEEP/End-use database/Potentials
model• Energy cultures (with Uni Otago, Mercury)• Energy innovation and innovation
governance (Lincoln, Otago)• Multimodal elasticities for demand response
in residential sector (Canterbury)• Create acceptance/Change Behaviour (EU)