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An inescapable fact about our future – and growing - energy needs is that they can only be met by increasing supply and/or decreasing demand. The problems of climate change, air pollution and the expense of building new power generation mean that an exclusive focus on increasing supply, especially from fossil fuel sources, is inadvisable. At a national level, the reduction of household and commercial electricity use has been identified as an important policy goal.The recent report of the Prime Minister’s Task Group on Energy Efficiency described energy efficiency as “Australia’s untapped energy resource”.
In addition, there are many who argue that policies aimed at reducing consumer demand can play a significant role in managing national energy needs at very little or no extra cost. While this assumption may underestimate the very real difficulties in achieving such behaviour change, there is now good evidence that it is possible to achieve significant reductions in energy use by applying what we know about human motivation and information processing.
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| Speaker(s) |
Carmen Lawrence,Winthrop Professor Psychology, School of The University of Western Australia
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| Location |
Blakers Lecture Room, Ground Floor, Mathematics Building, UWA
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| Contact |
Askale Abebe
<[email protected]>
: 6488 7565
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| Start |
Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:00
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| End |
Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:00
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| Submitted by |
Askale Abebe <[email protected]>
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| Last Updated |
Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:16
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