There is a large potential by closely monitoring the energy consumption of your appliances in a comprehensive overview. Being aware of the largest energy consumers and the general energy demand over the day, one can optimize his\/her household to reduce power consumption or to shift consumption to a daytime where the demand\/supply situation is better.
However, what is the motivation to do so?
As it can be seen in other situations (like riding a bike vs. taking the car, etc.), saving a few bucks might not be enough motivation to effectively change the consumers’ behavior.
Austin Montgomery, University of Waterloo gives a possible solution to this problem in his video “Making the Smart Grid Smarter with Social Media”: make it a competition on social networks! <\/p>\n
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By the way, this is my favorite video from the IEEE SmartGridComm 2011<\/a> video contest. Check http:\/\/www.ieee-smartgridcomm.org\/video.html<\/a> for the other nominated clips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is a large potential by closely monitoring the energy consumption of your appliances in a comprehensive overview. Being aware of the largest energy consumers and the general energy demand over the day, one can optimize his\/her household to reduce power consumption or to shift consumption to a daytime where the demand\/supply situation is better.However, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartgrid.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartgrid.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartgrid.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartgrid.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartgrid.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smartgrid.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/smartgrid.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartgrid.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartgrid.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartgrid.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}