YouPower
An open source platform for community-oriented smart grid user engagement
Yilin Huang (TU Delft - System Engineering)
Hanna Hasselqvist (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Giacomo Poderi (Università degli Studi di Trento)
Sanja Scepanovic (TU Delft - System Engineering, Aalto University)
Filip Kis (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, TU Delft - System Engineering)
Cristian Bogdan (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Martijn Warnier (TU Delft - System Engineering)
Frances Brazier (TU Delft - System Engineering)
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Abstract
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 participation. The community-oriented design is composed of parts that link energy data to energy actions, provide comparisons at different levels, generate dynamic time-of-use signals, offer energy conservation suggestions, and support social sharing. The goal is to bridge people's attitude-behavior gap in energy consumption and to facilitate the behavior change process towards sustainable energy consumption that is implementable in people's daily life. Preliminary results show that community-oriented energy intervention has the potential to improve user engagement significantly.