Household consumption
Report
Future of energy retail: how could the electricity retail market be designed to better support net zero delivery?
In preparing this report, Nesta worked with consulting firm, Complete Strategy, to set out five alternative models to the energy retail market that could accelerate household decarbonisation in the United Kingdom.
Working paper
Domestic transport charges: estimation of transport-related elasticities
To better understand the potential effects of transport policies, it is important to understand household spending patterns across different transport-related categories, as well as across different households. This study uses three distinct approaches to estimating transport elasticities for New Zealand.
Report
Cutting the bills: UK households profit from clean power
In this report, the authors evaluate two possible futures for the UK power system, showing that keeping renewables deployment on track brings both cost of living and energy security benefits. The study uses Ember’s open power system model, with all input data publicly available.
Report
Stepping up: a smoother pathway to decarbonising homes
This report recommends a new national partnership across all levels of government to plan the consumer energy transition so that all households can decarbonise and to ensure that the last households to electrify are the ones that choose to wait, not those who couldn’t afford to.
Report
Senate Select Committee on the Cost of Living: interim report
This interim report summarises the evidence that has been presented to the Committee so far. It focuses on three themes that were identified as priority areas - namely energy prices, housing and food and groceries.