Apollon Final Report
4 Energy Efficiency Experiment The Energy Efficiency experiment was set up in four countries (Finland, Sweden, Netherlands and Portugal), involving four Living Lab environments. The thematic objective of the energy experiment was to stimulate behavioural changes among people, by providing real-time updates on energy consumption through smart meters as well as testing new smart metering solutions and creating new business models for SMEs based on the finding of these actions.
All the four countries had a different basis for energy consumption because of the different climate conditions and the borders set by these conditions for energy efficiency. Legal entities as well as national energy players set demands to mitigate energy consumption as well as lowering/shifting of consumption peaks. The living lab settings were in most part similar except for the Finland pilot that is located in a higher voltage office building when in the other living labs the pilot is of low-voltage metering point; namely private homes. The cross border piloting focused on knowledge sharing and common research benchmarks related to user behaviour transformation among WP3 partners. From the four different living labs few key issues have risen above others in terms of user involvement and notification. The most flagrant issues related to energy proved to be the way in which the users are notified of their energy consumption and therefore are incorporated in the process of energy savings, and also to how to keep them engaged long-term. End users are most likely to change their
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