Energy Revolution Research Consortium- Plus - EnergyREV - User Influence Tools for Enabling Two-way Engagement with Smart Local Energy Systems

用户参与智能本地能源系统对于其成功部署至关重要，正如能源革命（PFER）计划所倡导的“消费者拉动”能源创新方法所证实的那样。然而，许多用户很少参与能源市场/需求响应，原因包括市场异质性和监管限制、新奇、需求缺乏弹性和缺乏了解。能量反馈举措往往提供单向的参与形式，采用信息驱动的方法，重点是分析和仪表板，尽管用户可能希望更多的互动参与，有时具有社区层面，并且有一些证据表明其有效性。本地能量流和相互作用的通信和可视化（电力、热力和运输等组成矢量）如果超越没有谈判能力的单向信息流动，而是使用户能够以更加连贯的方式了解自己、自己的活动、资源和能源使用情况，就能对用户产生影响;他们还可以直接或通过授权管理能源的消费、生产和储存，为网络和电网平衡做出贡献，同时为自己和社区创造价值。沟通通过个人和技术互动的结合来最有效地进行：人与人，人与技术，技术与技术。该Plus项目采用的以行动为导向的方法旨在满足扩大和加强地方一级用户参与能源系统的需要，并通过使用纵向地方能源数据共同创建一套智能工具来深化核心WP 4.1的影响，这些工具在使用分布式能源的两个对比示范（城市/农村）案例研究中使用包容性方法进行试验。

User participation in smart local energy systems is imperative for their successful deployment, as affirmed by the 'consumer pull' approach to energy innovation promoted by the Prospering from the energy revolution (PFER) programme. However, many users rarely engage in energy markets/ demand response for reasons including market heterogeneity and regulatory constraints, novelty, demand inelasticity and lack of understanding. Energy feedback initiatives tend to offer unidirectional forms of engagement that adopt an information-driven approach with a focus on analytics and dashboards, although users may wish for more interactive engagement, sometimes with a community dimension, and there is some evidence of its effectiveness. Communication and visualisation of local energy flows and interactions (of constituent vectors - electricity, heat and transport) can influence users if they move beyond one way flow of information with no power for negotiation, and instead enable users to understand themselves, their activities, resources and energy use in a more joined-up way; also to manage, directly or through delegation, their consumption, production and storage of energy, contributing to network and grid balancing at the same time as gaining value for themselves and their communities. The communication takes place most effectively through a combination of personal and technological interactions: person-person, person-technology, technology-technology. The action-oriented approach adopted in this Plus project is designed to address the need to extend and strengthen user participation in energy systems at local level, and deepen the impact of the Core WP4.1 by using longitudinal local energy data to co-create a suite of smart tools that are trialled using inclusive approaches in two contrasting demonstrator (urban/rural) case studies using distributed energy resources.