Planning Workshop: Energy Data Project

​Moved to February to allow us to run a richer workshop.

​We need your input so that we can design something that’s useful to you.

​Join us to workshop the data products and visualisations that will allow you to easily find and present evidence to plan your community wide shift to totally renewable and zero emissions. Please register even if you wish to simply stay informed about the project.

​Energy Data Visualisation Project funded by ECA

​The energy sector is swimming in data but we often can’t find what we need when policy debates emerge. We all have different capacity to find and analyse data because so many of us are time poor. The project aims to start solving these challenges with easy to access datasets and visualisations that do the analysis and present the results for you.

​This workshop is one of four you can join.

​Our theme is Planning - Totally renewable, zero emissions communities and electricity networks to be held on Wed 10 Feb 1-2:30pm. The other three are:

• ​Fairness - Equity and low income energy users (Tues 2 Feb 1-2:30pm)

• ​Access - Housing and investment challenges for renters, strata & apartments (Thurs 4 Feb 3-4:30pm)

• ​Transition - Pathways to electrification and renewable homes (Tues 9 Feb 3-4:30pm)

​Come to any one of these events to help us identify your most immediate needs and longer term uses of energy data.

​Who should join the Planning Workshop?

​The focus of this workshop will be community-wide energy planning. Are you in local government, community energy, regional development or electricity network planning?

​We will be asking what data we need to reach our energy targets. What do we need to know to plan local investments? What helps us track progress? What data will help us argue for our local needs to be recognised by the wider electricity system?

​Please also answer the registration questions about the data stories that would help you in your work or fill in this survey.

​You can read more about the project here. The videos from the Launch also provide a background to the project and the CSIRO's energy data Living Lab.

​My slides are available here.

​You can find more information about the Living Lab here. Charlie's slides can be viewed here.

​Our updated timeline now looks like this:

​Please join us on Wednesday 10th February to help us develop useful tools for energy planning at the local level.

​This project was funded by Energy Consumers Australia as part of its Grants Program to support consumer advocacy and research projects that benefit of household and small business consumers. CSIRO is contracted to Energy Together to develop NEAC data products in ways that align with the project outcomes. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of Energy Consumers Australia or CSIRO.

​During the workshop, Energy Together and CSIRO will gather information via audio/ video recordings and note taking. The information you provide will be used to develop useful tools for energy visualisation and communication, and may also be included in the report to the project funders, Energy Consumers Australia. In that report, things you say in the workshop may be included as quotes but will not be attributed to you, i.e. you will not be identified. If you would prefer that none of your contribution (even if de-identified) was included in the report, please let the facilitators know.

​Note this session will be recorded so that we capture our discussions for the purpose of the developing the project outcomes.