STEP BY STEP – Step by step commitments for energy saving

Objectives

• To improve households’ knowledge about energy saving behaviours and energy-efficient products
• To motivate households to commit to energy-saving actions
• To encourage community-based interactions between households likely to invest in high quality renewable energy products
• To better understand behaviour patterns relative to energy savings in different target groups
• To conduct a set of dissemination actions in view of promoting the STEP BY STEP concept and its implementation by European and local authorities

Activities

• Recruitment of 6.300 households by door-to-door interviews
• Elaboration of an “energy saving” Kit
• Elaboration and deployment of the behavioural change strategy and designing of accompany schemes for each energy saving action
• Accompaniment of 5.000 households to suggest energy saving actions
• Creation of databases containing information about: household profile, data related to behaviour change, knowledge about energy savings, electricity consumption, household locations, etc.

Results

• Activity Report 1 summing up the first data about the project in relation to citizens engagement towards energy saving and responsible consumption in the involved cities
• Activity Report 2 about proposed activities and the rate of success in the different partner cities
• Activity Report 3 about proposed activities and the rate of success in the different partner cities
• Activity report 4 with a final overview about results achieved.
• Video Interview with the major of the Cefalù about the participation of the City to the project
• Delivering energy savings of about 12% for at least 6.300 households
• 20% of the accompanied households take decision to purchase energy-efficient products (1.000 households)
• Caused environmental benefits in terms of reduction of CO₂, SO_x, NO_x, VOC and PM emissions
• Produced social benefits in terms of reduction of morbidity and mortality caused by CO₂, SO_x, NO_x, VOC and PM emissions

Partners

• E3D-Environnement (France, coordinator)
• Ghent University (Belgium)
• Pro-Akademia (Poland)
• Zentrum Fuer Europaeische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH – ZEW (Germany)
• Agència Energètica de la Ribera (Spain)
• Comune di Cefalù (Italy)
• Città di Ghent (Belgium)
• Città di Varsavia (Poland)
• CESIE (Italy)