"Energy consumption is indirectly shaped by policies that are not specifically concerned with energy or carbon emissions as such, but that have profound consequences for both" (Riniken et al., 2019:3).
This really centers some of the discussions we have had in the past couple of months, as particularly related to the COVID-19 pandemic, residential and commercial consumption, and the implications of the former on the latter. More specifically, this quote can help us ideate ways in which we may or may not structure our 'future outlooks' section in our article. We could cite policies now that work to shape energy consumptions in households and in commercial spaces and work to mention or think of ways in which those same non-energy policies could be amended to include energy considerations.
