Title
Facilitating Flexible Electricity Use in the Home with Eco-Feedback and Eco-Forecasting
Abstract
Over the last decade there has been an increased focus on changing domestic electricity consumption behaviors. While the usual approach has been to facilitate reduced consumption, recent work has started looking at facilitating more flexible electricity use as a means of shifting consumption to more favorable times. This approach means that people may behave more sustainably without necessarily using less electricity. Exploring this emerging approach, this paper presents a study of flexibility in domestic electricity use as facilitated by an eco-feedback system with forecast information about price, availability of green energy, and grid demand. The prototype system was deployed in three households for 22 weeks. Our findings show that flexible electricity use is far from trivial to achieve in domestic households. The details of this is relevant for understanding people's ability and willingness to shift electricity consumption, and for the design of systems that facilitate doing this.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2838739.2838755
Australasian Computer-Human Interaction Conference
Field
DocType
Citations 
Renewable energy,Electricity,Computer science,Multimedia,Energy consumption,Environmental economics,Grid,Sustainability
Conference
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
23
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jesper Kjeldskov11840141.58
Mikael B. Skov284075.62
Jeni Paay349540.51
Dennis Lund4201.28
Tue Madsen5110.85
Michael Nielsen6141.22