Technician

Part of the Scottish Government funded Home Energy Efficiency Programmes for Scotland: Area Based Schemes (HEEPS:ABS) for South Ayrshire Council.

In the project EnerSHIFT, 44 public housing buildings in Liguria were renovated through innovative financing mechanisms. The energy audits needed for EnerSHIFT were carried out by the technicians of the four Ligurian social housing agencies. After receiving specialised training from IRE Spa, the technicians carried out more than 100 audits on their local Public Residential Buildings assets.

The EnerGAware project's main objective was to decrease energy consumption and emissions in an affordable housing pilot and increase the affordable housing tenants’ understanding and engagement in energy efficiency. The EnerGAware project developed and tested, in 100 affordable homes, a serious game that was linked to the actual energy consumption (smart meter data) of the game user’s home and embedded in social media and networking tools. The EnerGAware solution provided an innovative IT ecosystem in which users could design their own virtual home and Avatar and learn about the potential energy savings, from installing energy-efficiency measures and changing user behaviour, whilst maintaining the comfort of their Avatar.

AirEx developed the first affordable smart air brick solution for the retrofit housing market. The product is an IoT-enabled smart ventilation control system that replaces conventional airbricks in pre-1950s dwellings. It monitors relevant environmental parameters like temperature and humidity and subsequently opens or closes air-vents to optimise ventilation. Using cloud-based IoT algorithms, AirEx minimises cold airflow whilst ensuring sufficient air exchange to prevent moisture build-up, timber rot or poor indoor air quality.

A technical study on Energy Poverty in the city of Madrid, which disclosed 23% of households at risk of energy poverty and pointed out households headed by women among most disadvantaged groups.

EnergyKeeper aimed to design, develop and test a novel, scalable, sustainable and cost competitive flow battery based on organic redox active materials. This battery helped remote communities, along with the implementation of RES equipments, to have a more stable and cheaper access to electricity. The partners advanced the technology of metal-free, organic RFB from laboratory to prototype scale.

In precarious neighbourhoods of Mantes-la-Jolie (FR), privately co-owned properties tend to be excessively run­down. As a result, EPAMSA– a public development agency responsible for urban development and renovations in the Grand Paris region – successfully implemented Energy Performance Contracts to improve the energy efficiency of the buildings by specifically targeting private, precarious co-owned properties.

Energise Sussex Coast (ESC), jointly with local non-profit partners, set up a community energy tariff. Through this tariff, residents could purchase locally generated, green energy from a trusted partner energy company. The tariff was primarily aimed at local people wanting access to green energy and keen to make a contribution to local community energy initiatives.

Energise Sussex Coast (ESC) targeted residents living in deprived areas, who were more likely to be living in energy poverty. The Pop-up Energy desks increased the accessibility of the energy advice service, offered by ESC, to these residents. By going into these neighbourhoods, ESC was able to engage and build relationships with disadvantaged or marginalised groups.

Face-­to-­Face energy visits helped tackle energy poverty by visiting households living in poor conditions, providing them with advice or directing them to other help devices offering solutions tailored to their needs. The local energy and climate agency in Brest, Ener’gence, offered energy­ visits including technical and social support. The target group of the energy­ visits were inhabitants encountering difficulties in paying their energy bills or who struggled to keep their home adequately warm during winter. The activities of the energy-visits not only involved the visit itself, which lasted between 2­3 hours, but also included follow­ up support and assessment.