USER - Uppsala Smart Energy Research group

The Uppsala Smart Energy Research Group (USER) is highly interdisciplinary, combining applied and theoretical, as well as qualitative and quantitative, approaches. The group is engaged in extensive collaborations with industry and other academic institutions. USER’s overarching goal is to understand and enhance the role of electricity users can play in realizing the energy transition. The research primarily focuses on user behavior and the socio-technical perspectives of demand flexibility, but also addresses decentralized production, storage, electric vehicles and smart grids. The research group’s foundational funding comes from the STandUP for Energy program, part of the Swedish government’s initiative in the strategic energy research area. Additional funders are presented in connection with the descriptions of individual research projects.