I wanna do a book thread. Why is this book for you if you work in @beisgovuk @CommonsBEIS @LGANews #localgov @SmartEnergyGB @EnergySysCat @ftenergy #urbanplanning #SmartCities #consulting #energytwitter manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526143372#…

It is a new tool box. A way to apply new thinking to the problems of contemporary life. What are we DOING when we change something in a system like #energy #transport #housing or #food?

We are changing a system which makes us free. Free to cook, clean, move and shelter.

So it is never just #energy #energytransition work we are doing. We are not just trying to hit #netzero we are intervening in peoples lives and #capabilities

These freedoms are part of a contract between individuls, society and institutions.

Like all contracts, both paper ones and fluffy philosphical ones, you need some sort of permission, consent or negotiation to change them.

In 'free' nations... this means individuals and groups retain some capacity to say "no"

For something like #ClimateActionNow that involves, for example, peoples homes, all the #EnergyStorage #smartenergy #solarenergy analysis in the world, all the low carbon heat grants.. wont reach scale unless there is a real process of reconising peoples potential to say no...

So thinking about the spatial contract for heating @heatpolicyrich @heatandthecity @janrosenow @Hy4Heat @BrownSdc @UKERCHQ @EnergyREV_UK is the best #ClimateEmergency policy the most efficient or most optimised? Or the one which most parties in that contract will agree to.

Recognising the Spatial Contract for energy in homes means recognising the choices we are asking people to make, are not over their 'energy use' or even thier 'practices' but the tacit contract that exists covering basic positive freedoms.

If we start our entire #netzero buildings policy from that recognition, then we could cease designing policy for building owners and start doing it with them on the basis of what it REALLY takes to get them to "YES".

We have to recognise that will be different for different demographics and might also be FAR from "rational". The secret fears and mundane desires of actually existing individuals might be the route to YES, and they might lie well beyond traditional energy policy.