Project Intelliekon, funded by the federal German Ministry of Education and Research, has focused their research on households, and has found new information based on data collected in a large survey. This knowledge concerns the acceptance and attractiveness of electricity consumption information, as well as their use, the willingness to pay and these effects on the electricity consumption.
Intelliekon, is an abbreviation of the research project "Sustainable energy consumption through smart metering, communications and industrial relations systems". In the project research institutes like, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Institute for Social-Ecological Research ISOE and Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI work together with the smart metering provider EVB Energy Solutions, in cooperation with nine German and one Austrian energy company, to develop opportunities for feedback of power consumption and to investigate the effects of this feedback on households in relation to their electricity consumption.
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