Anticipating Alternative Futures in Energy Efficiency

Christakis presented the case study about Anticipating Alternative Futures in Energy Efficiency at Pacific Northwest where thirty five stakeholder representatives and six observers from thirty organizations participated in this case study. They identified and described 168 national and regional trends extending to the year 2015 impacting energy efficiency and they proposed more than ninety actions to address these trends at the regional level.

By incorporating SDP dialogue, the participants drove conclusions of the relationships among the trends and produced a pattern displaying how some trends impact the other trends. Only one trend “reducing the gap of energy consumption per capita among countries will increase the national need to save energy in whatever way there is” on the plausibility map is positioned at the deepest level. Christakis suggested that future collaborative regional action to promote the adoption of energy efficiency in the Pacific Northwest should give serious consideration to the eight consensus actions belonging to the six categories – Price and Taxes, Education and Marketing, Regulatory Action, Metering, Distributed Generation Infrastructure and Tools (Christakis, 2006).


Reference:
Christakis, A. N., Bausch, K. C. (2006). How People Harness Their Collective Wisdom and Power. Information Age Publishing.