A step closer towards active and flexible consumers : enhancing involvement through energy consumption feedback

Milev, Ivana (author), Prislan, Lev (author), Zajc, Matej (author)

The level of consumer awareness and comprehension, during a period of abundant energy services, has a crucial role in their initial adoption and later engagement with the services. Digital energy platforms bring the ▫$\ll$▫intangible electricity▫$\gg$▫ closer to people’s daily lives and encourage new ways of thinking about and consuming energy. Energy feedback connects consumer’s consumption to their daily activities and provides insights. It enables them to learn about the consumption, learn how to reduce or optimise it and later, learn how to be flexible when needed. Besides investigating how familiar are the Slovenian households with their own consumption and energy related behaviour, the goal of this paper is also to investigate their preferences in visualizing their electricity consumption. The consumption estimation was validated on real case study using data from 642 Slovenian households. Results show that consumers that use electricity for space and water heating, underestimated their consumption up to 22.5%. A categorization of households based on their water and space heating systems is also presented.

• Language: English
• Keywords: household consumption, flexibility, QoL, digital energy platforms, energy feedback, mock-up
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FE - Faculty of Electrical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: 13 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 6, no. 9, art. 095032
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-163181
• UDC: 620.9:502
• ISSN on article: 2515-7620
• DOI: 10.1088/2515-7620/ad7926
• COBISS.SI-ID: 210090499
• Publication date in RUL: 03.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Environmental research communications
• Shortened title: Environ. res. commun.
• Publisher: IOP Publishing
• ISSN: 2515-7620
• COBISS.SI-ID: 529762841

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: gospodinjska poraba, prožnost odjema, kvaliteta življenja, digitalne energetske platforme, povratna informacija, modelčki

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P2-0246
• Name: ICT4QoL - Informacijsko komunikacijske tehnologije za kakovostno življenje