The Races project

Evaluating communication efforts and urban climate constraints for energy savings

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON URBAN CLIMATE AND HISTORY OF METEOROLOGY25 - 26 February 2013 - Florence, Palazzo Medici Riccardi

Valentina Grasso, Alfonso Crisci, Francesco Vaccari

Races project

“Raising awareness on climate and energy savings” Funded: LIFE + Period: 01/01/2009 – 30/04/2011

Communication and awareness raising on calimte change and energy savings at local level.

SchoolsFamilies Public stakeholders

Leader: Florence MunicipalityPartners: CNR – Ibimet; Modena Municipality; Fondazione E. Mach (TN); EURO-NET; Bari University

5 cities: Florence, Modena, Trento, Potenza, Bari

AimAim

Inform and engage!

The urban dimension of climate chenge

• Communicate climate change topics

• “City” as the perfect local dimension

• Inform and engage

carbon budget monitoring - contest

http://www.liferaces.eu - http://community.liferaces.eu

whowho

whatwhat

whenwhen

wherewhere

howhow

250 families

HeatingElectric powerMobility

November 2009 – October 2010

Florence, Trento, Modena, Bari, Potenza

Self-reading of meters and self reporting on web platform

participants

Volounteers participating in the carbon budget

Starting group: 316 families

Active participants: 247 families

Valid results: 185 families

Users

City BA FI MO PZ TN Total

Unvalid 7 21 10 20 4 62

Valids 17 135 11 6 16 185

Total 24 156 21 26 20 247

Florence participants

Families starting: 180Families completing: 156

data collected

Structural data

• Family: components n.° and age

• Household:– House type (building, cottage,..)– Construction year– Area (center, suburbs) – Floor– Rooms; square meters; height– N. window– Dishwasher / air conditioner

• Mobility: – Type of car/moto; fuels; engine

size; access to public transport

energy use

• Baseline 2008: power; heating; km driven.

Monitoring period: 8-12 months

Requested a minimum 3 self-reading of:

• Power (kWh)• Heating• Km driven

the “climate” factor

Histogram of Relative importance of agents having impacts on each CB energy sector considered

Evaulating the “effort”

Rewarding EFFORT and not EFFICACY

• EFFORT: average reduction % compared to 2008 in the 3 areas.

•NET REDUCTION: reduction % compared to 2008 normalized for monitoring days.

•FINAL REDUCTION: absolute reduction gained as CO2 Kg.

Normalization:

• Power: consumption days; family components; square meters;

• Heating: consumption days; family components; square meters; HDD-heating degree days.

• Mobility: consumption days; fam. components; Rainy days

effort index - “yes, we can”

efficacy: energy savers

results scheme

City Effort

%

Savings %

Monitoring days

Power sector

Heating

sector

Mobility

sector

2008 Kg CO2

CB Kg CO2

CO2 saving

s

Potenza +30% +46% 323 -28% -56% +131% 8.677 10.546 +1.869

Bari -25% -31% 280 -56% -12% 0% 4.962 2.657 - 2.305

Florence -17% -1% 323 -34% -10% 11% 7.739 7.110 - 629

Modena -13% -10% 326 -16% -24% -2% 9.197 6.688 - 2.509

Trento -13% 0% 345 -10% -7% -37% 9.592 8.712 - 880

Median value

-15%

-2% 323 -47% -14% -2%7.24

76.33

5- 912

best players

Effort index*

Savings *

Power sector effort

*

Heating sector effort

*

Mobility sector effort

*First 50

-44% -26% -68% -33% -45%

1- 100

-32% -15% -57% -22% -24%

1 - 150

-19% -8% -53% -17% -8%

1 - 174

-17% -5% -48% -14% -3%

*calculated as median value on selected sample

Families engaged in monthly monitoring gained the best results

To be or not to be ENGAGED

final remarks

• Feedbacks are very useful to engage in energy conservation practices the more frequent the

monitoring, greater the savings

• Engaging citizens give access to “data”

• Communication activities project can help research - “Collaborative science” approach

Thank you!

Valentina Grassov.grasso@ibimet.cnr.it

@valenitna

Data available on https://github.com/alfcrisci/races_analitics