Adaptive consumer/user behaviour including energy communities

  • deMonstration of smArt and flExible solutions for a decarboniSed energy future in Mayotte and other European islAnds

    Project dates: 01. Nov 2020 - 31. Oct 2024

    Objective

    Making islands smart, green and prosperous

    There are more than 2 200 inhabited islands in the EU, many of which depend on expensive fossil fuel imports for their energy supply. The large-scale deployment of local renewable energy sources and storage systems would contribute to decarbonising the energy system. However, this endeavour requires flexible solutions, new tools and efficient frameworks that can be adapted to local needs. The EU-funded MAESHA project will develop smart and flexible methods of storage and energy management as well as modelling tools and technical systems with the aim of promoting the transition towards sustainable energy. Designed with respect to the interests of the local communities, adapted to the market and ready to be disseminated, the new approaches will serve as a demonstration for the future decarbonisation of the Mayotte and other European islands.

    Partners

    Number of partners: 11
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    1

    TUB

    COBRA

    CENTRICA

    TRIALOG

    E3-MODELLING AE

    CYBERGRID GMBH & CO KG

    CREARA

    HIVE POWER

    HUDARA

    CONSORCIO PARA EL DISENO, CONSTRUCCION, EQUIPAMIENTO Y EXPLOTACION DE LA PLATAFORMA OCEANICA DE CANARIAS

    Euroquality

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  • European City Facility

    Project dates: 01. Aug 2019 - 31. Jul 2023

    Objective

    Our vision of the European City Facility (EUCF) is one where European cities have their say on how the EUCF financial support will be used to meet their needs and help them overcome barriers they face in financing and implementing their ambitious energy and climate strategies.

    The ultimate objective of the EUCF is to build a substantial pipeline of sustainable energy investment projects across cities in Europe. This will be achieved by providing targeted financial, technical, legal and capacity building support to overcome critical barriers, develop credible investment packages and mobilise finance. Delivering this will require organisational, technical and financial innovation, in particular to bridge the capacity and capability gap for small and medium-sized municipalities.

    The specific objectives are to:
    - Provide hands-on locally rooted technical and financial expertise, inspired by ‘best in class’ European practice, to cities to deliver at least 225 credible and scalable investment concepts (hereafter referred to as IC) which should trigger more than EUR 320 M of public and private investment.
    - Build the capacity of at least 450 public authority staff to develop substantial project pipelines and provide them with tools, networking and knowledge transfer opportunities which will facilitate and accelerate the IC implementation, including via innovative financing mechanisms and project aggregation.
    - Facilitate access especially for small and medium-sized municipalities to private finance, EU funding streams and similar facilities (e.g. ESIF, H2020-PDA, Elena-EIB) and advisory services such as the EIB Advisory Hub to realise and amplify the expected investments.
    - Use the successful IC and knowledge of EUCF beneficiaries to reach out to more than 8,000 cities and communities, encourage replication and catalyse further action across European cities.

    Partners

    Number of partners: 5
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    CLIMATE ALLIANCE - KLIMA-BUENDNIS - ALIANZA DEL CLIMA e.V.

    ADELPHI RESEARCH GEMEINNUTZIGE GMBH

    ENERGY CITIES/ENERGIE-CITES ASSOCIATION

    FEDERATION EUROPEENNE DES AGENCES ET DES REGIONS POUR L'ENERGIE ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT

    ENVIROS SRO

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  • A DECentralIzed management Scheme for Innovative Valorization of urban biowastE

    Project dates: 01. Sep 2016 - 31. Oct 2021

    Objective

    The growing attractiveness of cities leads to increasing population, thus rising energetic and food demands in urban areas. This makes urban waste management increasingly challenging, both in terms of logistics and environmental or health impacts. To decrease the cities’ environmental impacts and to contribute to a better resilience of urban areas towards energy or food supply crisis, waste management systems have to be improved to increase recycling of resources and local valorization. In this context, the DECISIVE project proposes to change the present urban metabolism for organic matter (foods, plants, etc.), energy and biowaste to a more circular economy and to assess the impacts of these changes on the whole waste management cycle. Thus, the challenge will be to shift from a urban “grey box”, implying mainly goods importation and extra-urban waste management, to a cooperative organization of intra- and peri-urban networks enabling circular local and decentralised valorization of biowaste, through energy and bioproducts production. Such a new waste management paradigm is expected to increase the sustainability of urban development by: (1) promoting citizens awareness about waste costs and values; (2) promoting renewable energy production and use in the city; (3) developing an industrial ecology approach that can promote the integration between urban and peri-urban areas, by providing valuable agronomic by-products for urban agriculture development and so improving the balance of organic products and waste in the city; (4) developing new business opportunities and jobs. In order to achieve these objectives, the project DECISIVE will develop and demonstrate, at real scale, eco-innovative solutions addressed to waste operators and public services, consisting in: (1) a decision support tool to plan, design and assess efficient decentralised management networks for biowaste in urban areas; (2) eco-designed solid-state fermentation processes. Moreover in parallel of real scale demonstration sites, an eco-designed new micro-anaerobic digestion process will be developed and tested.

    Partners

    Number of partners: 14
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    AARHUS UNIVERSITET

    FUNDACIO ENT

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT HAMBURG

    SUEZ GROUPE

    ASSOCIATION DES VILLES ET REGIONS POUR LA GESTION DURABLE DES RESSOURCES

    A&T 2000 SPA

    PSUTEC SPRL

    AGENCIA DE RESIDUS DE CATALUNYA

    REFARMERS

    UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA

    INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT

    HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM FUR OZEANFORSCHUNG KIEL

    AERIS TECNOLOGIAS AMBIENTALES SL

    INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS SRL

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  • DOMINO - Connecting Europe, Saving Energy

    Project dates: 01. Mar 2016 - 31. Mar 2019

    Objective

    The DOMINO project will nudge more than 3,400 households from the regions of Brussels, Berlin and Naples towards more energy efficient behaviour and will connect participating households in their region to nurture peer-learning and strengthen social bonds. To this end, a variety of behavioural interventions will be combined in a smart plug challenge. In this challenge, households in each region form teams that will be provided with smart plug equipment and a smartphone app allowing them to monitor and control their electricity consumption and serving as a means to directly communicate with them and support them with tailored energy conservation advice. By combining feedback, prompts, goal setting, peer comparison, rewards and other behavioural levers, the project will lead to an annual reduction in primary energy consumption of more than 14.48 GWh. Throughout the project, data will be generated that allows looking into energy consumption patterns of households and their appliances. Furthermore, the actual potential for energy savings through behavioural change as well as through the application of smart plug technology and similar innovative product-system-services can be monitored and evaluated very precisely. The project will thereby not only contribute to reducing energy consumption in the three target region and to improving the awareness for the innovative smart plug technology but will also advance the scientific and public debate on energy consumption behaviour and on behavioural interventions for energy efficiency. In addition to creating direct energy savings and to building knowledge, the project will also contribute to building capacities and skills among participating households, multipliers in energy agencies across Europe, policy-makers on national and European level as well as municipalities and energy providers. At the end of the project, smart plugs will be passed on to organsiations who will keep lending them to interested to consumers.

    Partners

    Number of partners: 6
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    ADELPHI RESEARCH GEMEINNUTZIGE GMBH

    AGENZIA NAPOLETANA PER L'ENERGIA E PER L'AMBIENTE

    BRUXELLES ENVIRONNEMENT - LEEFMILIEU BRUSSEL

    ARCTIK SRL

    Plugwise B.V.

    ENERGY AGENCY OF PLOVDIV ASSOCIATION

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  • NATural Language Energy for Promoting CONSUMER Sustainable Behaviour

    Project dates: 01. May 2015 - 30. Jun 2017

    Objective

    Residential energy consumption represents the 28% of all EU consumption and if commercial buildings are also considered this percentage increases to 40% (36% of EU CO2 emissions). In this context, is clear that the reduction of consumption in the residential sector should play an important role in energy efficiency programmes and policies as is stated in the recent Energy Efficiency Directive 2012/27/EU.
    Most energy efficiency measures implemented in Europe involved technological interventions. In contrast, everyday energy-consuming behaviours are largely habitual and therefore the potential of energy savings at home with actions focused in consumer behaviour is really promising. In this context the provision of feedback to consumers has resulted in really promising results, achieving savings in the range of 5-20%. But some limitations exists. The aim of this project is to fill the gaps and advanced in this context, being an essential preparatory activity for the future large scale demonstration of feedback methodologies.
    The key aim of this project is to develop an advanced and integral user-centred framework for the implementation of efficient energy feedback programmes in the domestic area. Our approach relies in the complete characterisation of the EU energy consumer, and the design of specific personalised actions tailored to each consumer pattern detected based on the use of natural language and emotional contents. NATCONSUMERS will set the scenario to allow strengthening the dialogue between the EU energy system stakeholders in order to define robustness methodologies exploiting to the maximum the potential of energy feedback approaches, filling the existing gaps not still covered by previous pilots and experiments.
    NATCONSUMERS consortium brings together representatives of all stakeholders and areas involved in the project. A concise dissemination and awareness programme is proposed to reach the target communities and increase the impact of the project.

    Partners

    Number of partners: 11
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    ADICONSUM ASSOCIAZIONE DIFESA CONSUMATORI APS

    IZERTIS SOCIEDAD ANONIMA

    THE ENERGY SAVING TRUST LIMITED

    ARIOSZ SZOLGALTATO INFORMATIKAI ESTANACSADO KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU TARSASAG

    VAASAETT LTD AB OY

    OSLOMET - STORBYUNIVERSITETET

    STRATEGIC DESIGN SCENARIOS SPRL

    DRAXIS ENVIRONMENTAL SA

    RICERCA SUL SISTEMA ENERGETICO - RSE SPA

    VALOR DESARROLLO E INNOVACION SL

    FUNDACION PARA EL PROGRESO DEL SOFT COMPUTING

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  • Robust and Reliable technology concepts and business models for triggering deep Renovation of Residential buildings in EU

    Project dates: 01. Oct 2016 - 30. Jun 2021

    Objective

    4RinEU will define robust, cost-effective, tailorable deep renovation technology packages supported by usable methodologies, feeding into reliable business models. The project will minimize failures in design and implementation, manage different stages of the deep renovation process, from the preliminary audit up to the end-of-life, and provide information on energy, comfort, users’ impact, and investment performance.
    The 4RinEU deep renovation strategy is based on 3 pillars: (i) technology (driven by robustness) to decrease net primary energy use (60 to 70% compared to pre-renovation), allowing a reduction of life cycle costs over 30 years (15% compared to a typical renovation) (ii) methodology (driven by usability) to support the design and implementation of the technologies improving the information flow and knowledge sharing among stakeholders to sustain participative design, ensuring to halve the current renovation time (iii) business models (driven by reliability) to enhance the level of confidence of deep renovation investors, increasing the EU building stock transformation rate up to 3% by 2020.
    The 10 main results of 4RinEU will address the following objectives:
    Technology: to reduce demand (Prefab Multifunctional Façade, Comfort Ceiling Fan), to improve energy efficiency (Plug&Play Energy Hub, Objective-based RES Implementation), to improve building operations (Sensible Building Data Handler), and to reduce construction waste (Strategies for Components End-Of-Life).
    Methodology: to accurately understand renovation issues and potentials (Cost-Optimal Energy Audit), to ensure an effective and participated design (Investor and Building User-Oriented Design Tool and Method based on BIM), to reduce construction time and failures (Deep Renovation Implementation Management).
    Business model: to identify the level of risk of renovation process and to enable well-founded investments supported by tailor-made financial tools (Cost-effectiveness Rating System).

    Partners

    Number of partners: 15
    Site numbers:

    THERMICS ENERGIE SRL

    ADERMA SRL

    TRECODOME BV

    OSLO KOMMUNE

    STIFTELSEN SINTEF

    TECNOZENITH SRL DI DELGROSSO & C.

    AGENCIA DE L'HABITATGE DE CATALUNYA

    SINTEF AS

    ACCADEMIA EUROPEA DI BOLZANO

    STICHTING WOONZORG NEDERLAND

    SISTEMES AVANCATS D ENERGIA SOLAR TERMICA SCCL

    Gumpp & Maier GmbH

    R2M SOLUTION SRL

    INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED

    ACCIONA CONSTRUCCION SA

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  • Enabling consumer action towards top energy-efficient products

    Project dates: 01. Mar 2015 - 31. Aug 2018

    Objective

    TOPTEN ACT aims at empowering consumers to ACT: to purchase top energy-efficient products that will save energy over their lifetime.

    TOPTEN ACT develops a comprehensive market transformation strategy targeting consumers, manufacturers, retailers, large buyers, consumer associations and other key actors in 16 European countries, covering a combined population of 447 Mio inhabitants. It works with these actors to help them embrace and promote energy-efficient products, so that they become the natural choice for consumers. Project partners will:
    - Manage 16 Topten websites presenting up-to-date, consumer-oriented information to 2 Mio visitors per year. These websites will showcase top energy-efficient models in a number of product groups: domestic appliances, cooling and lighting equipment, consumer electronics, vehicles etc. They build on independent and reliable market surveys selecting the best available technologies (BATs) amongst hundreds of thousands of products. → Consumers identify top products, compare costs and understand the benefits of energy performance on their electricity bills and for the environment.
    - ‘Push’ this information to consumers through extensive use of the media, communications and partnerships with key organisations acting as multipliers. → Impartial information reaches consumers.
    - Work with retailers, leveraging on their unique market position, directly in contact with consumers about to ACT, to further increase purchases of energy-efficient product. → In just one click, consumers will find and buy top efficient products.

    TOPTEN ACT impacts are both quantitative —savings of 331 GWh/year triggered per million € invested— and qualitative: markets are more transparent, media report on top efficient products, multipliers relay the Topten message to their target groups, consumers change their using and purchasing behaviour, retailers change their range and highlight BAT products, manufacturers shift their production lines.

    Partners

    Number of partners: 17
    Site numbers:

    GUIDE TOPTEN SARL

    SVENSKA NATURSKYDDSFORENINGEN I

    THE ENERGY SAVING TRUST LIMITED

    INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU ENERGIE ICEMENERG-BUCURESTI

    SEVEN, THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY CENTER Z.U.

    LIETUVOS NACIONALINE VARTOTOJU FEDERACIJA ASOCIACIJA

    OSTERREICHISCHE ENERGIEAGENTUR AUSTRIAN ENERGY AGENCY

    BOND BETER LEEFMILIEU VLAANDEREN

    NORGES NATURVERNFORBUND

    Quercus - Associação nacional de Conservação da natureza

    SOCIETA COOPERATIVA SOCIALE ELIANTE ONLUS

    AGENCE DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT ET DE LAMAITRISE DE L'ENERGIE

    FUNDACJA NA RZECZ EFEKTYWNEGO WYKORZYSTANIA ENERGII

    BUSH ENERGIE GMBH

    OEKOZENTER PAFENDALL ASBL

    ASOCIACION PARA LA DEFENSA DE LA NATURALEZA

    OEKO-INSTITUT E.V. - INSTITUT FUER ANGEWANDTE OEKOLOGIE

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  • Students Achieving Valuable Energy Savings 2

    Project dates: 01. May 2017 - 31. Jan 2021

    Objective

    Students Achieving Valuable Energy Savings 2 (SAVES2) will catalyse sustainable energy behaviours among over 219,000 university students in seven countries to help them reduce their exposure to fuel poverty. It incorporates two strands that engage with students living in university accommodation (Student Switch Off) and in the private-rented sector (SAVES). Student Switch Off is an energy-saving competition that will reach 38,000 students living in 144 dormitories in 14 universities of the partner countries in each academic year from 2017/18 to 2019/20. By identifying and training student ambassadors in each dormitory, and by motivating the ambassadors to encourage their peers to save energy, we will create a race between students in dormitories, each competing to save the most energy and win prizes. It will tap into online student communities through social media, using engaging digital communications (quizzes, photo competitions) to raise awareness of how students can save energy in a fun way. The centrepiece of each competition will be an energy dashboard that updates students in near-real time on the performance and position of their dormitory in the competition – providing feedback and encouraging further action. The private-rented sector engagement work (SAVES) will reach over 100,000 students when they are looking for, moving into and living in the private-rented sector. It will enable students to make better informed decisions at the point at which they are selecting a rental property – thereby routing purchase decisions towards higher efficiency properties. SAVES2 will incorporate national-level partnerships with smart meter delivery agencies to develop student-focused communication materials highlighting the benefits of smart meters. It will provide ongoing advice and support to students via energy-efficiency and bill management training, peer-to-peer advice sharing via video blogs and regular e-mail and social media communications.

    Partners

    Number of partners: 11
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    NATIONAL UNION OF STUDENTS (UNITED KINGDOM)

    UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI

    ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON

    POLYTECHNEIO KRITIS

    SOFIA UNIVERSITY ST KLIMENT OHRIDSKI

    DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY

    RESEAU DES UNIVERSITES DES CAPITALES DE L'EUROPE

    ECOVISUM LTD

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    • ECOVISUM LTD
    • United Kingdom
    • Budget: 81, 447.6015625

    VILNIAUS GEDIMINO TECHNIKOS UNIVERSITETAS

    UNION OF STUDENTS IN IRELAND MEMBERS' SERVICES LIMITED

    Research & Innovation

    UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS

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  • EnergyMate, the first energy efficiency-based software providing users an easy way to understand their energy consumptions

    Project dates: 01. May 2018 - 31. Aug 2018

    Objective

    EnergyMate, the first energy efficiency-based software providing users an easy way to understand their energy consumptions. Residential energy consumption represents the 25% of all EU energy consumption. In this context, is clear that the reduction of energy consumption in the residential sector should play an important role in energy efficiency programs and policies. Currently, energy consumers and energy utilities face various barriers that deter them from adopting energy efficiency measures: (i)Energy bills difficult to understand by energy consumers; (ii) low-optimized energy consumptions; (iii) low quality services by energy utilities, resulting in a large number of unsatisfied customers. At Energintel S.L (Asturias, Spain) we have developed a smart solution to overcome these barriers. EnergyMate provides users information about their energy consumptions in a natural language format easily understandable by users, suggesting personalized recommendations, and allowing to adapt their behavior to the hourly energy prices. It has been estimated an annual reduction of 25% in energy consumption and an increase of 30% of the customer´s satisfaction with EnergyMate. Based on the good performance of our prototypes being currently tested in Spain, we aim to optimize the software and scale-up the technology to fulfill the technical needs of different European markets. This market, depends on the roll-out of smart meters, which is expected to be 200 million by 2020. Additionally, in the first stage of commercialization EnergyMate expects to cover at least the 52% of the market for energy retailers (over 2.000 companies). This market, with such growth potential (predicted to increase at 8.1% CAGR up to 2019), could greatly benefit from our smart solution. €6.64M sales projection has been estimated for the third year. The expected Market share covered by EnergyMate, based on the number of smart meter in Europe (at least 320 millions) will be 3% by 2023.

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    Number of partners: 1
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    ENERGY INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS SL

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  • Personalised ICT-tools for the Active Engagement of Consumers Towards Sustainable Energy

    Project dates: 01. Oct 2017 - 30. Apr 2021

    Objective

    "Eco-Bot aims to utilize recent advances in chatbot tools and advanced signal processing (i.e. energy disaggregation) using low-resolution smart meter-type data with the goal of changing their behaviour towards energy efficiency. Eco-Bot targets to a personalized virtual energy assistant to deliver information on itemized (appliance-level) energy usage through a chat-bot tool.
    The ""chat-bot"" functionality will be use an attractive frontend interface, permitting seamless communication in a more natural and interactive way than a traditional mobile application. This way, Eco-Bot aims to achieve a higher level of engagement with consumers than previous efforts (i.e. serious games, gamification, competitions or other interactive ICT), by adding a more engaging form of interaction with existing platforms that has been proven in different market settings.
    The proposed system considers knowledge of the delivered multi-factorial models, including rebound-effects, as a result of the baseline research on both European and International activities. Then, based on advanced ICT, such as knowledge engineering, machine learning, expert systems, the project transforms the multi-factorial models for energy reduction to interactive, personalized and targeted recommendations to consumers on how to save energy.
    Eco-Bot uses also existing NILM, e.g. energy disaggregation methods, and data analytics to break down consumption to the appliance level, where this is possible (smart meters at reasonable granularity, adequate number of information collected) so as to make consumers aware of their most energy-consuming devices.
    The project will demonstrate the system in three different use cases, each one representing a different business model (B2B / B2B2C /B2C). We aim to validate our system across real and diverse conditions such as socio-cultural, environmental, demographic, climate and consumption, so as to draw concrete conclusions regarding performance, effectiveness, affordability, etc."

    Partners

    Number of partners: 10
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    UNIWERSYTET EKONOMICZNY W KATOWICACH

    DEXMA SENSORS SL

    ADELPHI RESEARCH GEMEINNUTZIGE GMBH

    RISA SICHERHEITSANALYSEN GMBH

    BOTEGO BILGI TEKNOLOJILERI A.S.

    SEnerCon GmbH

    ENVIRONMENTAL RELIABILITY AND RISK ANALYSIS

    PLEGMA LABS TECHNOLOGIKES LYSEIS ANONYMOS ETAIRIA

    ESTABANELL Y PAHISA ENERGIA SA

    UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE

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