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| Implementing Real-Time Resource Use Feedback to Motivate and Empower Conservation |
| Status: |
Active |
| Grantee: |
Oberlin College |
| Grant Amount: |
$812,000 |
| Award Date: |
September 19, 2008 |
| Contact: |
John Petersen |
| Phone: |
440-775-6692 |
| E-mail: |
john.petersen@oberlin.edu |
| Category: |
Market Mechanisms for Environmental Improvement |
| Origination: |
RFP - RFP - Information Technology |
This project is designed to ultimately reduce emissions of air pollutants, and to improve the hydrological and chemical condition of the basin’s waterways by shaping how residential customers use electricity and water. This team will create the first system to provide users real-time feedback on how their water and power use choices impact air and water quality.
The goal of this team is to develop meaningful feedback technology to influence consumers to reduce their resource use. They plan to develop applications aimed at modifying patterns of energy and water usage with the goal of reducing impacts to the ecosystem. Work will be conducted in the Plum Creek watershed. Plum Creek is a tributary of the Black River that drains into Lake Erie and is the main watercourse in Oberlin, Ohio.
The applications proposed will offer real-time feedback as a motivator and incentive to reduce and modulate the timing of energy and water use in residences and commercial entities. They will employ sophisticated display graphics that will include user interactivity and socially comparative data and will develop an array of parallel feedback methods for comparison of impacts.
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