Social Power Plus: Empowering Households to Energy Sufficiency through Co-designed App-based Community Energy Challenges

Cellina, Francesca and Carabias-Hutter, Vicente and Castri, Roberta and De Luca, Vanessa and Granato, Pasquale and Kienast, Pascal and Lobsiger-Kägi, Evelyn and Wemyss, Devon (2021) Social Power Plus: Empowering Households to Energy Sufficiency through Co-designed App-based Community Energy Challenges. In: Conference proceedings BEHAVE 2020-2021 the 6th European Conference on Behaviour Change for Energy Efficiency BEHAVE 2020-2021 - 6th European Conference on Behaviour Change for Energy Efficiency, April, 21-23 2021, Online (hosted by Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency).

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Abstract

In Switzerland, as in many Western countries, households are responsible for 31.4% of total energy consumption and are therefore an important intervention point for ‘Energiestrategie2050’, for achieving the country’s energy transition. Acknowledging that the widespread technical measures targeting the energy efficiency of buildings tends to neglect the impact of occupants’ behaviour in overall energy usage, a growing body of research has focused on behavioural measures targeting reducing energy consumption and exploitation of the potential for increased energy sufficiency. Social interventions targeting energy savings at home were in fact observed to reduce energy consumption by as much as 20% when several behavioural and engagement initiatives were implemented.

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