Visualising real-time in-home energy savings opportunities

到2020年，智能电表和家庭显示器(IHD)将在所有GB家庭(&gt；2700万)中推广。IHD(实时显示能源消耗和成本)目前提供的机会有限，无法将家庭能源消耗纳入背景，因此无法充分发挥这些设备通过利用经过验证的消费者驱动因素所能实现的客户参与、行为改变和能源节约的潜力。在这个项目中，我们将评估一种提供实时比较消费的新型IHD的技术可行性，即实时消费与类似家庭(在一天中的特定时间和季节的那个特定时间)的历史消费相比如何，并能够考虑家庭入住率、人口统计、建筑特征和家用电器所有权。在美国，非实时的比较能耗反馈显示，每户家庭可额外节省2-3%的能源。这一创新项目将是第一次将其应用于实时环境，有可能为GB家庭每年节省多达3.3亿GB的电费。

Smart meters and in-home displays (IHD) are being rolled out across all GB homes (>27 million) by 2020. IHDs (which display energy consumption and cost in real-time) currently offer limited opportunities to put household energy consumption in context, and as such, fail to deliver the full potential for customer engagement, behavioural change and energy savings that these devices could achieve by leveraging proven consumer drivers. In this project, we will assess the technical feasibility of a new type of IHD which provides real-time comparative consumption, i.e. how real-time consumption compares to the historical consumption of similar households (at that specific time of day and season) with the ability to take into account household occupancy, demographics, building characteristics and appliance ownership. Non real-time comparative consumption feedback has been shown in the US to offer an additional 2-3% energy saving per household. This innovative project will be the first time this is applied in a real-time context with the potential to save GB households as much as £330 million annually on their electricity bills.