IT and Electricity Savings in Households, Report from a Field Experiment

This paper presents IT-based communication with households about their electricity consump­tion. It describes the technological platform used, the design and the implementation of the experiment. Finally, it contains a first step to answer the question whether the IT-based communication generates electricity savings. 

We have selected five representative groups of households, including two control groups. The three experiment groups are getting the feedback about their electricity consumption in different ways, but using SMS, e-mails and a website in all experiment groups. The electricity consumption is measured over two years. The first year, the households do not get any further information.