This Meeting Report summarises a workshop held in October 2007, which explored agent based modelling application to policy.
Agent based modelling (ABM) has been applied successfully in a number of areas such as modelling financial markets, organic farming technique adoption and household waste prevention activity. However, application of ABM techniques to policy intervention design in the energy sector has been limited to date. ABM could potentially make a very useful contribution to energy policy as this approach to modelling could particularly be used to better understand consumer behaviour and energy demand, resulting in the design of more effective policy interventions.