Within the framework of the EnR Behaviour Change Working Group Regina from MEKH, the Hungarian Energy agency kindly took the initiative of taking the lead in organising a webinar on 12th November on Monitoring of behaviour change programmes and sharing best practices, together with Chair and co-chair of the group Rebecca, RVO, the Netherlands and Adrianna, EST, UK.
Rebecca introduced the EnR and briefly described recent work carried out within the Working Group on monitoring, led by Motiva, Finland together with ENEA, Italy, Adene, Portugal and the Swiss Energy Agency. She provided a link to the results of the survey carried out amongst 16 of the 24 EnR members on monitoring of behaviour change and energy efficiency campaigns. A session took place at the EnR Behaviour Change conference held in November 2023 in Maastricht, the Netherlands to present the results and those of the Xchange programme of the IEA on energy efficiency campaigns in different countries. One conclusion made was that it is clear that there is a lack of shared methodologies at European level for measuring behaviour change and calculating energy efficiency behaviour. This is s subject worth further exploration within the Working Group.
Rebecca also highlighted the catalogue of best practices, the Energy Efficiency Journal where papers from the EnR BEHAVE Conference held in November 2023 in Maastricht, the Netherlands will soon be published, the EnR Newsletter and announced that the eighth edition of the EnR Behaviour Change Conference will be held on 11th and 12th December in Paris hosted by Ademe.
Regina presented the programme for the webinar and introduced the speakers. The following presentations were given. Presentations were followed by a discussion during which Rebecca posed questions to the speakers and questions were addressed from the chat function posted during the webinar.
- Hungarian experience with monitoring behaviour change measures, Regina Fógel, Hungarian Energy and Public Utility Regulatory Authority (MEKH, Hungary)
- Case study from Hungary: the awareness-raising ’Energy Diet’ campaign and its measurement/ monitoring methods Rita Balázs, MVM Next Energy Trading Ltd. (key player of energy sector in HU) Zádor Bálint, Axing Ltd. (market leader in the Hungarian energy consulting sector)
- Impact of the awareness and behavioural campaign ‘Italy in Class A’ on Energy Savings and Efficiency Targets Mariagiovanna Gaglione, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA, Italy)
- Evaluation of public awareness campaigns in Greece Christos Tourkolias, Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving (CRES, Greece)
- Monitoring of behaviour change campaigns in different countries. Emma Mooney, International Energy Agency (IEA)
For a recording of the webinar please see link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPU1IEvWYRY