Research and analysis

Participation of low income and vulnerable consumers in a smart energy system

Project InvoLVe aims to identify how future innovation could enable low income and vulnerable consumers to increasingly benefit from a smart energy system.

From:
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Published
18 June 2021

Documents

How can innovation deliver a smart energy system that works for low income and vulnerable consumers?

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Details

As part of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s £505 million Energy Innovation Programme, the aim of this project was to provide technical and social research to review the domestic and international evidence base, including current innovation activities, to identify:

  • the barriers to low income and vulnerable consumers participating in a smart energy system
  • where innovation can help enable low income and vulnerable consumers to participate in a smart energy system

BEIS commissioned the Energy Systems Catapult to undertake the first phase of work. This report outlines the findings of the project and recommendations for the future.

Published 18 June 2021