Bridging the Attitude-Behaviour Gap in Household Energy Consumption

The attitude-behaviour gap in energy consumption refers to the imparity between people's environmental values (and attitudes) and their actual behavior in consumption. This paper calls for the facilitation of the behaviour change process that is implementable in the context of one's everyday life to address the attitude-behaviour gap in...

Embedding IoT in Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems: A Community-Oriented Design in Future Smart Grids

YouPower: An open source platform for community-oriented smart grid user engagement

This paper presents YouPower, an open source platform designed to make people more aware of their energy consumption and encourage sustainable consumption with local communities. The platform is designed iteratively in collaboration with users in the Swedish and Italian test sites of the project to improve the design and increase active user...

Towards smart grid user engagement through social networking

Social Networking for Smart Grid Users: A Preliminary Modeling and Simulation Study

Emerging smart grids have promising potentials to make energy management more efficient than currently possible in today’s power grids. Integration of small scale renewables, distributed charging of electrical vehicles and virtual power stations are some of the technological innovations made possible by smart grids. Besides these technological...