It has been a while since the participating households signed up for the project “Social Power Plus: We are the energy saving foxes” in autumn.
In the meantime, the energy meters have been installed at EKS customers’ homes. We have also finished the app and created the necessary technical configurations so that the app will display the correct data for each household. In fact, the Social Power Plus energy-saving competition will soon get underway!
At the end of January, participants will receive the first online survey via email and at the beginning of February, households will be able to download the Social Power Plus app and monitor their energy consumption in various displays. Households can set their own savings targets, take part in energy-saving challenges, read and write their own energy tips and compete to win the regional energy-saving competition.
Join our energy saving challenge
Saving energy and using it efficiently? It’s not always easy – but we can help you! If you are a customer of EKS, Stadtwerk or TBW then take part in the campaign “We are the energy saving foxes”: You will see your energy data (electricity and heating) and receive practical energy saving tips from us and the other energy saving foxes in the region! We are looking for 100 households per region.
You can find more information, participation requirements and registration here.
Behave 2020-2021 conference
The 21 April Francesca Cellina presents “Social Power Plus: Empowering households to energy sufficiency through co-designed app-based community energy challenges” at Behave 2021 Conference promoted by Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency.
At the same panel: Digital Solutions for Behaviour Change
Dr. Devon Wemyss presents “Same, Same But Different: Academic and Commercial Perspectives on APP-Based Energy Behaviour Change”.
Conference link
Apply now to join co-creation of the Social Power Plus app and community energy challenge
Would you like to know more about energy use at home and help your community to save energy? Join our living lab process and you will both goals! Subscriptions to the living lab are now open to any customers of the utility companies EKS, TBW and Stadtwerk Winterthur. Fill in the application form available at this page.
Social Power Plus: energy saving in households is a collective challenge
Social Power Plus is an app-based community energy challenge aimed at promoting energy saving in households through a fun and gameful approach. The app and energy challenge will tackle both electricity and heating energy consumption and will be co-created with a group of interested citizens in a living lab approach. The effectiveness of the app will be assessed through a field test involving households living in the districts of the Swiss utility companies EKS (link), Technische Betriebe Wil (link) and Stadtwerk Winterthur (link). Do you live in such districts and would you like to join the living lab? Come back soon to visit this page and discover how to be part of the project!