Project

Empowering customers to save energy by informative billing

Code
41U03413
Duration
01 April 2013 → 31 March 2016
Funding
European funding: various
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Other economics and business not elsewhere classified
    • Communication sciences not elsewhere classified
    • Other social sciences not elsewhere classified
  • Engineering and technology
    • Electrical energy production and distribution
    • Renewable power and energy systems engineering
Keywords
informative billing energy saving
 
Project description

This project aims to empower consumers: by involving and informing them, helping them to take measures to save energy on the basis of the information they read on their meters or on their bills. EMPOWERING brings together key actors: energy utilities, local authorities and consultants in order to implement more informative billing services for 344,000 consumers. The effectiveness of the implementations will be evaluated in terms of technical feasibility, economic viability, user acceptance and satisfaction (sustainability) and critical factors for more wide-spread applicability (impact). The objectives are to develop and implement a range of insight based services and software tools, to engage customers of utility companies. The outputs will include: assessment of customer expectations, training and capacity building services implementation in real operation and evaluation of results in terms of measurable energy performance improvements and client response.