Green Energy Options Carbon Connections Case Study

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Green Energy Options Carbon ConnectionsCase
Study

• 28th February 2008

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• Agenda

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• Context
• Who are GEO?
• What are we trying to achieve?
• Vision for the future
• Our project with Carbon Connections
• Research objectives
• Working partnership
• Conclusions

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• Green Energy Options

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• Making energy visible in homes and in businesses
• Creating energy displays, energy information
  systems and web services
• Cant manage what you cant see
• Core behaviour change
• 2-30 savings achieved

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• Domestic Energy Consumption

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• Is it important?
• 45 of UKs carbon emissions derived from energy
  in buildings
• 27 of UKs carbon emissions are from homes
• Improvements
• Building standards are much better 2006 80
  better than 1970
• Home improvements
• Condensing boilers
• Efficiency of products (energy ratings)
• So why are emissions not falling?
• Electrical appliances are increasing
• Occupancy rates falling

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• Whats the right thing to do?

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• Mechanisms for savings

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• Changes in behaviour
• Reducing wastage
• Investments in energy efficiency whats their
  impact
• Going green with renewables

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• Solo

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• Gross electricity
• Minimum functionality
• Benefits
• future proofing
• Upgradeable
• Accuracy
• Safety
• Analogue display
• Styling
• Sensors
• Safe CT
• User installable

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• Duet

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• Integrates with Solo to give
• Heating hot water usage
• Monitoring of up to 6 appliances
• Remote control of the appliances
• Inbuilt memory
• Upload to internet
• Sensors
• Safe CT
• Boiler outputs
• Up to 6 appliance sensors

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• Trio and Trio

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• Advanced user interface
• Self-learning profiling
• Savings savings points
• Extended control functionality
• Contextual help from internet
• My energy web service
• Central node
• Multiple appliances
• BB internet connection
• Unlimited history of all sensors (via web)
• Sensors
• Safe CT
• Boiler output
• Multiple appliance sensors
• Specialist sensors

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Most people are resistant to new things you
cant just throw technology at them and expect
them to adopt it.We have deliberately tried to
design desirability into our products based on
tested behavioral change principles.Our aim is
to- capture peoples interest- engage and hold
their attention - encourage them to work with
the system and to keep reducing their CO2
emissions.They are not meant to be meters...

• Desirability and Changing Peoples Attitudes

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• Displays and Home Energy Hubs

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• Trio Displays

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• Trio Displays

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• Trio Displays

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• Schools and Offices Too

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• My Home

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• Carbon Connections Project

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• AIM NUMBER 1 Behaviour change study
• What impact do these displays have?
• What factors contribute to significant savings?
• What are the barriers to changing behaviour?
• Is more information helpful or confusing?
• Unintended consequences?
• Resulting carbon reduction

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• Carbon Connections Project

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• AIM NUMBER 2 What does the data tell us?
• What can we learn from household profiles?
• What households achieve most and why?
• What can we glean from appliance level energy
  data?
• Can we devise smarter technological ways of
  achieving savings?

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• Methodology

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• 70 households monitored with no display
• 70 households with simple level display
• 70 households with more sophisticated display
  and more information
• Data streamed back via web continuously
• 7 month analysis duration
• Qualitative analysis before, throughout and at
  end

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• Other Factors

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• Contributing to costs
• Contact data bases
• Working relationships
• Independence for results
• Future potential

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• Conclusions

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• Credibility
• Key skills
• Early investment
• Joint IP exploitation
• Future potential