Sally Blackwell, one of our Energy Cultures PhD student has been involved in developing the newly launched Home Performance Advisor training programme for those working with energy and houses.
The Home Performance Advisor programme provides intensive science-based training to gain a comprehensive understanding of how
Getting a driver’s licence is not the rite of passage it used to be, with young people increasingly going online rather than getting behind the wheel. (Click here to read full article)
The GREEN Grid project at the University of Canterbury’s Electrical Power Engineering Centre (EPEC) is an attempt to investigate the impact of photovoltaic (PV) solar power generation on low and medium voltage distribution networks. Colleagues from Canterbury’s department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Otago University’s marketing department and Centre for Sustainability.
Physicist Emeritus Professor Gerry Carrington , lead author on Royal Society of New Zealand’s recent paper on Facing the Future: Towards a Green Economy for New Zealand, was recently 
interviewed by Shane Gallagher and Samuel Mann on Otago Access
Barbara Elliston, a former Energy Cultures Masters student and much more, was inspired by her time on the project to carry through with her interest in developing ‘Hot PV’.
Here’s an article by her about the product which starts off with her discussion with us at morning tea.
There’s good evidence that car use may have peaked and other forms of transport will take its place.
Listener Article by Rebecca Priestley
Skip Laitner is a resource economist based in Tucson, Arizona. He is in New Zealand for next week’s Energy Conference in Wellington, and in Dunedin to speak at the University of Otago and the Chamber of Commerce.
Members of the Energy Cultures Project are continually reaching out to all those with interest in the Energy Field. Janet Stephenson was recently interviewed by the New Zealand Treasury’s National Infrastructure Unit newsletter. Read her interview here. niu-news-2013-8
