{"id":88,"date":"2019-01-31T15:11:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T15:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/flexibility\/?page_id=88"},"modified":"2019-01-31T15:11:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T15:11:18","slug":"conceptualising-flexibility","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/flexibility\/conceptualising-flexibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Conceptualising Flexibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Context and background:<\/strong> Flexibility is not only about adapting supply to demand or switching fuel to match or meet existing temporal patterns. It is also about recognising that temporal patterns are not fixed: they vary and are in part shaped by technologies and systems of provision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aim:<\/strong> The work will conceptualise whole system \u2018flexibility\u2019 to better understand how forms of\u00a0synchronisation, periodicity and duration structure mobility and other forms of energy demand. This project is a \u2018theoretical engine room\u2019 that will inform and influence research across the whole centre.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions and methods:<\/strong> Articulating the time-related implications of present energy policies and related research in science and engineering depends on integrating and mobilising concepts developed across the social sciences (Blue 2017).<br \/>\nThis foundational work is in three phases:<\/p>\n<p>a) critically reviewing methods of conceptualising and measuring flexibility across disciplines and research fields, and between supply, demand,<br \/>\nand the provision of energy services;<\/p>\n<p>b) focussing on how forms of spatial and temporal flexibility are<br \/>\nstructured and conceptualised in relation to transport (see 2.2.2), and domestic and non-domestic energy demand, and analysing assumptions about flexibility embedded in energy research and policy;<\/p>\n<p>c) drawing on international experience and expertise, including hosting a major conference on flexibility and energy demand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Outputs:<\/strong> 2 articles, 2 interactive workshops involving UK energy researchers and social scientists, and 1\u00a0international conference.<\/p>\n<p>October 2018 &#8211; March 2023\u00a0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context and background: Flexibility is not only about adapting supply to demand or switching fuel to match or meet existing temporal patterns. It is also about recognising that temporal patterns are not fixed: they vary and are in part shaped &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/flexibility\/conceptualising-flexibility\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1093,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-88","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/flexibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/flexibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/flexibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/flexibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1093"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/flexibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/flexibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/flexibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/flexibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}