<b><i>SolarClub: Supporting Renewable Energy Communities through an Interactive Coordination System</i></b>

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Energy communities are a key focus for governments around the world in support of more sustainable energy practices. However, interactive systems for supporting energy communities to coordinate around renewable energy resources are still lacking. We present SolarClub, a demand-shifting visualization interface that supported households in coordinating their energy usage by booking energy-hungry activities when solar energy was available. We deployed SolarClub with four groups of neighbors (N=15) for a month. SolarClub successfully enabled neighbors to coordinate, even when some of those participating households were less flexible. While participants reported that SolarClub did not foster a sense of community, it helped them empathize with their neighbors. Our findings demonstrate the potential of sensor- and visualization-based technology to help understand the relation between everyday practices and resources consumption, beyond individual eco-feedback. This work thus contributes to the development of a next generation of practices and technologies that support collective action for sustainability.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642449
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Creator Potapov, Kyrill; Panagiotidou, Georgia; Costanza, Enrico; Samanani, Farhan; Knox, Hannah; Fell, Michael; Mugambi, Sonia Nkatha
Publisher University College London UCL
Contributor Figshare
Publication Year 2024
Rights https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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Contact researchdatarepository(at)ucl.ac.uk
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Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Other