Workshop 1 conclusions
Anita Borch and Pål Strandbakken
Worskhop programme
1) 3rd of September, Morning session (09:00-16:00):
• Aim: To identify and classify factors influencing residential energy consumption in the Southern, Western, Central
and Northern part of Europe.
• 5 inspiring presentations
• Group discussion (4 groups representing different parts of Europe)
2) 3rd of September, Afternoon session (15:30-18:00)
• Aim: To identify and classify barriers of sustainable energy consumption in the Southern, Western, Central and
Northern part of Europe from a stakeholder perspective
• Inspiring presentation of the project ADVANCED
• Group discussion (4 groups representing different types of stakeholders)
3) 4th of September (9:00-13:00)
• Aim: To classify factors influencing residential energy consumption in the Southern, Western, Central and Northern
part of Europe
• Inspiring presentation of future residential energy consumption
• Group discussion dividing identified factors in three categories: Actionable factors, factors that can be pushed upon, and non-actionable
factors
Participants
• 19 project partners and 12 especially invited external energy experts
• Participating countries: Norway, Finland, the UK, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Hungary
Czech Republic, and Greece
• Type of stakeholders: Research, businesses, organizations, and regulators
Conclusion 1
Goal:
1. To establish an overview of consumer patterns across Europe. A working hypothesis was that
consumers’ energy practices vary between four different European Regimes: Southern,
Western, Central and Northern Europe.
At a general level, consumers’ energy practices vary to some extent between four different
European Regimes: Southern, Western, Central and Northern Europe. For example, Northern
parts of Europe use more energy because of colder climate and use less gas than other parts of
Europe. However, most differences go across these boundaries, such as differences in climate,
insulation, energy sources, lifestyles, appliances, comfort, price, and supply may vary within the
same European regime.
Conclusions 2-4
Goals:
2.- To establish a structure for defining European consumer practices
3. To identify main barriers of customer engagement for a more sustainable energy consumption
4. To consolidate the path to establish a Natural Language for promoting sustainable residential
energy practices
- Barriers to a more sustainable energy consumption can be classified alongside a dimension
going from Actionable factors at one extreme and Nonactionable factors at the other.
- The Actionable factors represents the factors that we are able to intervene by means of natural
language, and hence, the framework within current consumer practices have to be changed.
Thank you
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Project reference: 657672 (H2020)
Type of action: CSA
Topic: The human factor in the energy system (LCE-20-2014)
Duration: May 2015- April 2017 (24 months)