[voew-listserver] Thematic Symposium "Do households save electricity through feedback based on Smart Metering systems?"

  • From: sebastian.goelz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: voew-listserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:43:13 +0200

Dear colleagues, 

I am happy to announce the cooperation between the "Sustainable 
consumption 2011" conference and the BMBF project "intelliekon". 

The conference  "Sustainable consumption 2011" will give the international 

and interdisciplinary scientific community an opportunity to present and 
discuss new research findings on sustainable consumption. The focus of the 

conference is on  consumer behaviour, its social and cultural 
embeddedness, and its interdependencies with institutional, economic, 
physical and political frameworks. 

One important topic of sustainable consumption is energy consumption in 
households. This topic also receives high priority on the political agenda 

of the European and German Federal legislation, which among other issues 
have integrated the so-called Smart Meter into their climate protection 
policy as an instrument to increase the energy efficiency in households. 
The visualisation and feedback on hourly and daily energy consumption is 
considered an innovative approach to change consumers‘ behaviour. Caused 
by the political objectives and the continuous dissemination of Smart 
Metering Systems in Europe, the effects of feedback on consumers‘ energy 
consumption and behavior came into the focus of social 
scientific research again. 

The German research project Intelliekon was launched in 2008 with the 
objective to offer insights in potential target groups, their needs, and 
preferences concerning energy consumption information and their energy 
behaviour while using feedback information based on Smart Metering. 
Currently the project is analysing the data obtained from a more than 
one-year field trial with more than 2000 households in Germany and 
Austria. 

For the presentation and discussion of results we are organising a 
scientific symposium at the "Sustainable consumption 2011" conference on 7 

th November 2011 in Hamburg. The symposium "Do households save electricity 

through feedback based on Smart Metering systems?" aims to link current 
projects regarding the topics Smart Metering, feedback and savings 
potentials from various countries and to give scientists and practitioners 

the opportunity to exchange their experiences and insights in terms of 
feedback on energy consumption. 

Topics to be adressed: 
results on savings 
behavioural mechanims of feedback 
target groups and specific designs ( in function, media and visual design) 

methodological approaches and future research 
product applications 

We would be very happy to welcome you in this event and I want to invite 
you to contribute to the sessions with a paper about findings and 
conclusions from your work. For the relevant topics and CfP as well as 
procedures of submission please refer to the symposium flyer under 
http://www.intelliekon.de/ergebnisse/downloads/flyer-wissenschaftliches-symposium-intelliekon
 

and http://www.sustainableconsumption2011.org 

With kind regards 
Sebastian Gölz
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Dipl.-Psych. Sebastian Goelz 
Head of Team 'User Behaviour and Field Trials'
Dept. Electrical Energy Systems
Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme ISE
Heidenhofstrasse 2 , 79110 Freiburg, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)761 4588 5228        Fax: +49 (0)761 4588 9217
sebastian.goelz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
http://www.ise.fraunhofer.de


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