EAN 2024 Annual Network Summit: Speakers

Keynote: From Awareness to Action: Behavioral Insights for Increasing Consumer Uptake of Low-Carbon Technologies | Dr. Kim Wolske

Dr Kim Wolske is a research associate professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and a scholar with EPIC, the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. Her work draws on the fields of environmental, social, and cognitive psychology to examine the behavioral dimensions of energy issues, with the aim of improving the design of public-facing policies and programs. A central focus of her work is on understanding the motivations and barriers associated with consumer adoption of efficient and renewable energy technologies. For the past decade she has partnered with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to examine drivers of rooftop solar adoption. Dr. Wolske previously worked at the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise and as an independent consultant to Opower. Dr. Wolske is a past president of the Society for Environmental, Population, and Conservation Psychology and was recently named a fellow of the American Psychological Association.

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