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)