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Not all Canadians can attain socially and materially necessitated levels of domestic energy services to maintain healthy indoor temperatures, meet their needs, and live with dignity鈥攁 situation known as energy poverty. Depending on the measure, 6% to 19% of Canadian households face energy poverty with demonstrated health and well-being impacts. This presentation will explore the intersection between energy poverty, housing characteristics, health and well-being generally, and in relation to energy transition programs in the residential sector.

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In contrast to the unsustainable and increasingly fragile global, fossil-fuelled, and market-based energy system, an energyshed names a geographic area and governance model in which all power consumed is sustainably resourced and supplied within it, and associated wastes returned to it.

In September 2023 Glasgow鈥檚 Infrastructure Humanities Centre ran a series of workshops bringing together and building relationships between multiple academic, public, private, and community stakeholders to think through and perform the capacities of the energyshed as an idea capable of convening diverse interests and perspectives, starting not from technical or economic questions, but rather from questions of desire, value, community, and agency.

This talk describes those workshops, how they were framed and how they went, what ideas came out of them, what the change of starting point allowed, and what the potential of the energyshed might be for achieving a just and sustainable future.