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Transforming Energy Demand through Digital Innovations

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In March 2009 EPSRC convened an advisory group to help scope a possible research activity in the application of digital technologies to Energy Efficiency and Energy Demand Reduction. The conclusion of this panel was that digital technologies could be deployed in innovative ways to reduce energy demand in many areas, including domestic energy use, but that there were many unaddressed research challenges in this area.

It was clear from the workshop that Digital Technologies can facilitate Energy Demand Reduction at a number of levels of interaction between Society and the Energy System. Some of the emerging themes were:

  • Presentation of information to influence individual and community decision making;

  • How to use digital technologies to change and help understand individual and collective behaviour;

  • Whole systems integration;

  • Efficient data and information management (and choice of data);

  • Energy implications of working practices.

The C-Aware project was funded through the resulting "Transforming Energy Demand through Digital Innovations" (TEDDI) call. The original call for proposals can be found here.

The website for projects funded under the TEDDI call can be found at http://www.teddinetwork.info/.