Earth Notes: General Bibliography (which2026flexibility)

• [which2026flexibility] Which? Household Energy Flexibility: Who Really Benefits? (accessed 2026-10-02), 2026-09-30, PDF (report) (BibTeX).
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  [[**CS1] [**UA] Quote: "Laundry provides a large near term opportunity with 54% of all households saying they could shift their laundry to off-peak times. This presents an opportunity for a wide range of households to save, although Ofgem estimate that an average household willing to shift 25% of their usage to off-peak times would only save £10.40 over a year. The survey does find that households are approximately as likely to say they will shift their demand for altruistic reasons to reduce demands on the grid at peak-times as they are for financial reasons. We think that more behavioural evidence is needed here to understand how households actually behave." Quote: "2% say they have a heat pump and could shift when their heat pump runs." Quote: "When households' consumption patterns are taken into account, it emerges that most of the currently untapped flexibility potential is likely to be concentrated in a small group of early adopters of electric vehicles, who are willing to shift consumption to off-peak times more than they currently do." Quote: "... households with the highest potential to shift electricity use can shift around 10% of their consumption on average, whereas a quarter of UK households can only shift an average of 0.1%..." Quote: "Households who were previously underheating to save money risk paying even more, because it can be harder to use certain underheating strategies (like heating restricted spaces and times) with a heat pump."]