This webinar highlighted the ongoing challenges as well as innovative practices that empowered consumers, alleviated challenges in the near-term while enabling long-term decarbonisation strategies. Those interested in consumer-driven energy-saving solutions and collaborative behavioral change measures from diverse backgrounds were especially encouraged to register and join that discussion!

In the framework of the H2020-WHY, H2020-PARITY, Smart Living EPC  and H2020-ATELIER projects, an hybrid-multidisciplinary workshop session is organized to better understand the most predominant factors that affect the decision-making in stereotypical households regarding investment decisions toward the energy transition in EU. 

The WHY project evaluates how energy communities currently exist from a lens of energy efficiency and reducing energy consumption at the household-level. Since the efficacy of these goals are behavioural and personal, it is imperative that our investigation includes inclusive solutions to alleviate social challenges like energy poverty. With the community prioritisation of the energy community framework, it is imperative to address these social challenges with inclusive solutions.

The Project Partners  explored the role of Energy Communities as use cases, read more here.

Stakeholder Input: Improving Demand-Side Modelling to Inform Ambitious Climate Policies in the European Union

We invited several stakeholders dealing with the European Union’s climate and energy policies to investigate what issues, in their opinion, should be considered when modelling the energy demand and what policy measures are the most important to drive the transition in the EU buildings sector.

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The annual ECEMP conference brings together Europe’s climate and energy modelling community over a three-day period in a forum for deep exchange of research and modelling practice and varied discussions. The WHY Project Team is participated with Parallel Session contributions and co-organised the Skills Workshops.

Our second Open Day was held under the framework of the EU European Sustainable Energy Days 2022. This webinar was an opportunity to know more about how energy is consumed in households and state-of-the-art quantitative and qualitative techniques to assess behaviour in households.

WHY organised an interactive, education-based workshop series as a supplementary addition to the annual Energy Modelling Platform for Europe (EMP-E) Conference to replace the Summer School (cancelled due to the COVID Pandemic). This “WHY Skills Workshop” idea was developed to offer hands-on skills training for aspects of energy systems models to appeal to students and current energy modellers alike.

The WHY Project Exhibition Booth was arranged by the Climate Alliance team over the course of 3 days at the digital exhibition area of the Conference. The Team seekes discussion with policy-makers and experts representing municipalities interested in learning more about the potiential exploitation of the project. Particulary discussions on energy communities as business models involving municipalities were explored.

In this workshop we presented an introduction to evolutionary algorithms focusing on best practices available and provided some tips to correctly engineer an evolutionary algorithm. Moreover, we presented two use cases from the Energy System Modelling community. All presentations are available on our Youtube channel.
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