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TY - GEN
T1 - Tiree energy pulse
T2 - exploring renewable energy forecasts on the edge of the grid
AU - Simm, William
AU - Ferrario, Maria Angela
AU - Newman, Peter
AU - Friday, Adrian
AU - Forshaw, Stephen
AU - Hazas, Mike
AU - Dix, Alan
N1 - © ACM, 2015. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in CHI '15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702285
PY - 2015/4
Y1 - 2015/4
N2 - In many parts of the world, the electricity supply industry makes the task of dealing with unpredictable spikes and dips in production and demand invisible to consumers, maintaining a seemingly unlimited supply. A future increase in reliance on time-variable renewable sources of electricity may lead to greater fluctuations in supply. We engaged remote islanders as equal partners in a research project that investigated through technology-mediated enquiry the topic of synchronising energy consumption with supply, and together built a prototype renewable energy forecast display. A number of participants described a change in their practices, saving high energy tasks for times when local renewable energy was expected to be available, despite having no financial incentive to do so. The main contributions of this paper are in: 1) the results of co-development sessions exploring systems supporting synchronising consumption with supply and 2) the findings arising from the deployment of the prototype.
AB - In many parts of the world, the electricity supply industry makes the task of dealing with unpredictable spikes and dips in production and demand invisible to consumers, maintaining a seemingly unlimited supply. A future increase in reliance on time-variable renewable sources of electricity may lead to greater fluctuations in supply. We engaged remote islanders as equal partners in a research project that investigated through technology-mediated enquiry the topic of synchronising energy consumption with supply, and together built a prototype renewable energy forecast display. A number of participants described a change in their practices, saving high energy tasks for times when local renewable energy was expected to be available, despite having no financial incentive to do so. The main contributions of this paper are in: 1) the results of co-development sessions exploring systems supporting synchronising consumption with supply and 2) the findings arising from the deployment of the prototype.
U2 - 10.1145/2702123.2702285
DO - 10.1145/2702123.2702285
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781450331456
SP - 1965
EP - 1974
BT - CHI '15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press
CY - New York
ER -