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DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker
Summary
DESNZ's Public Attitudes Tracker is a triannual survey that monitors public awareness, behaviours and attitudes on energy and net zero policies. The survey transitioned from BEIS to DESNZ in 2023, reduced frequency from quarterly to three times per year, and uses online address-based methodology since 2021.
Why it matters
Provides valuable market intelligence on public acceptance of energy policies, which influences political feasibility of reforms affecting grid users, generators and energy policies.
Key facts
- •Survey conducted 3 times per year from Summer 2023 (reduced from 4)
- •Methodology changed to address-based online surveying in Autumn 2021
- •DESNZ took over from BEIS in Spring 2023
- •Data time series restarted in Autumn 2021 post-COVID
Areas affected
consumersrenewablesenergy efficiencyheat pumpsevs
Related programmes
Net ZeroClean Power 2030
Publisher description
This page brings together all documents relating to the Public Attitudes Tracker (PAT).
Full extracted text
This triannual survey collects data on public awareness, behaviours and attitudes relating to the department’s policy areas. Up to Winter 2022, the Public Attitudes Tracker ( PAT ) was conducted by the former Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy ( BEIS ). From Spring 2023 onwards, following departmental restructuring, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero ( DESNZ ) is responsible for the PAT . From Summer 2023, we have reduced the frequency of the survey from 4 to 3 times a year, dropping the Autumn wave which largely covered topics that do not fall within the remit of DESNZ . In response to feedback, we have added a summary of questions covered by the PAT since Autumn 2021. Methodology changes The data time series was restarted in Autumn 2021 following COVID with a new methodology using address-based online surveying ( ABOS ), and the results since then have been divided into topic areas. See BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker: Developments Summer 2021 for more details of the Autumn 2021 changes. Due to the impacts of COVID -19, Wave 34 to Wave 37 data was collected via an online panel. In earlier waves data was collected through face-to-face in-home interviews. Contact us If you have questions or you would like further information, please contact: PAT @energysecurity.gov.uk .