Please help with our Domestic Energy Use survey

by Kevin on August 20, 2008 · View Comments

Connecting Bristol are a key partner in the DEHEMs (Digital Environment Home Energy Management System) project. DEHEMs is a European Union funded project looking to improve domestic energy efficiency and reduce household emissions.

The project kicked off in June 2008 and will develop and test an energy monitoring and display system for homes. The project partnership includes a mix of European Local Authorities, businesses and Universities. As part of the development process we would like to gain an understanding of what people are currently thinking and doing with regard to energy use.

With this in mind we have created a short survey of 20 questions, which should take no more than 10 minutes to complete. We value your opinion and would appreciate it if you could complete the survey.

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  • Kevin
    Fraser

    That's incredibly useful information- in fact I've sent your observations and the contacts on to the Programme Managers. I can see that they may well want to follow up on this. Thanks for posting it. Its strange how everything always seems to connect up eventually.......

    K
  • Hi Kevin. Interesting project. I used to work for CARTC who were part of the EC market transformation programme on energy efficiency. Basically I went around measuring power consumption from home electrical appliances! Know a great guy called Bob who's into all this (http://www.eeph.org.uk).

    Some interesting observations - such as flat panels using less power than CRTs. There are lots of initiatives around reducing consumption of devices (standby-power, using ECO PC functions, power throttling etc).

    I highly recommend this : http://www.oneclickpower.com/ (actually I have one of the first prototypes at home :))

    A simple household solution would be a "master" switch to turn off all sockets and lights when you go out.....
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