Tiree Energy Pulse: Exploring Renewable Energy Forecasts on the Edge of the Grid

Will Simm; Maria Angela  Ferrario; Adrian Friday; Peter Newman; Stephen Forshaw; Mike Hazas; Alan Dix

doi:10.1145/2702123.2702285

Tiree Energy Pulse: Exploring Renewable Energy Forecasts on the Edge of the Grid

Will Simm, Maria Angela Ferrario, Adrian Friday, Peter Newman, Stephen Forshaw, Mike Hazas, Alan Dix

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Abstract

In many parts of the world, the electricity supply industry makes the task of dealing with unpredictable spikes and dips in production and demand invisible to consumers, maintaining a seemingly unlimited supply. A future increase in reliance on time-variable renewable sources of electricity may lead to greater fluctuations in supply. We engaged remote islanders as equal partners in a research project that investigated through technology-mediated enquiry the topic of synchronising energy consumption with supply, and together built a prototype renewable energy forecast display. A number of participants described a change in their practices, saving high energy tasks for times when local renewable energy was expected to be available, despite having no financial incentive to do so. The main contributions of this paper are in: 1) the results of co-development sessions exploring systems supporting synchronising consumption with supply and 2) the findings arising from the deployment of the prototype.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI-15)
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1965-74
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-3145-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702285
Publication status	Published - 18 Apr 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Korea, Seoul, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Duration: 18 Apr 2015 → 23 Apr 2015

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	ACM

Conference

Conference	33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	CHI2015
Country/Territory	Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	18/04/2015 → 23/04/2015

Keywords

Renewable energy
Community Resilience
Participatory design
Action Research
HCI

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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A Best Paper Award: CHI 2015 - ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Simm, W. (Recipient), Ferrario, M. A. (Recipient), Dix, A. (Recipient), Friday, A. (Recipient), Newman, P. (Recipient) & Hazas, M. (Recipient), 18 Apr 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

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Simm, W., Ferrario, M. A., Friday, A., Newman, P., Forshaw, S., Hazas, M., & Dix, A. (2015). Tiree Energy Pulse: Exploring Renewable Energy Forecasts on the Edge of the Grid. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI-15) (pp. 1965-74). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702285

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Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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Tiree Energy Pulse: Exploring Renewable Energy Forecasts on the Edge of the Grid

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A Best Paper Award: CHI 2015 - ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing

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