Contracting entity: Swiss Federal Office of Energy

Contractor: Bits to Energy Lab, ETH Zurich

 

Authors: Michael Baeriswyl, Claire-Michelle Loock, Tobias Graml, Thorsten Staake

 

The report "Segment specific consumption information for energy conservation and demand shifting” focused on how integrating behavioural interventions into feedback systems increase their effectiveness. In this framework, the effects of several behavioural interventions, such as social norms, goal setting, defaults, reference groups, awards, and games were analysed. Also, the willingness of end users to shift the timing of their energy consumption was investigated.

 

The corresponding research was mainly conducted in a large-scale field experiment with over 2000 customers of a Swiss and an Austrian utility company via two web-portals, the Velix portal and the Oscar portal.

 

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