3FOOD

Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
Upgrade information and engagement: This proposal involves the creation of a national
platform to provide real-time, historical, and comparative energy feedback to residential
and commercial energy customers, using a web-based platform and in-home displays.
The online information can utilize social norms and targeted tips to give meaning to
energy consumption information and motivate action. This program can also enable
residential and commercial customers to have access to near real-time energy
consumption information. This information has been shown to effectuate consumer
behaviors from increased energy visibility, to improve energy management and reduce
energy consumption. Ideally, it can also provide historical consumption information,
baseload and non-baseload information, time-of-use information, usage alerts, and a
variety of other options that can help consumers become more knowledgeable and
more effective in managing their energy consumption and reducing wasteful energy
use. The information can highlight the non-energy benefits and pro-social benefits of
energy efficiency technologies and smart energy practices, building on a waste
management type of approach.
Develop innovative disclosure and rating tools for the real estate sector. Making
energy-related operating costs more transparent to owners, buyers, and renters creates
an opportunity to make energy more visible and to reshape real estate preferences.
Smart real estate markets will use comparative benchmarking and rating systems and
ICT-enabled programs to share energy consumption information. In addition, there can
be changes in real estate disclosure laws to promote reduced levels of energy
consumption through participation in energy audits, appliance retrofits, smart energy
management, green leases, and more. Public access to building-level energy
consumption ratings (residential and commercial) can be accessed via a Zillow-type app,
while actual consumption data can be a mandatory part of real estate transaction
information sharing.
Develop, test, and maintain an electric power infrastructure resiliency strategy. As
previously suggested, a well-functioning electricity grid is a requirement to deliver
critical services, including health services, transportation, and telecommunications. Due
to the long term impact of investment decisions in power grid infrastructure, it is key
that this infrastructure be explicitly addressed. It is recommended that Luxembourg’s
Energy working group focuses attention on defining scenarios for the future grid
architecture, as well as develop a strategic response plan of action, in the event of
extreme weather or cyber-related events that compromise the power network. As is
the case for many TSOs and DSOs, emergency response plans also need to be tested and
revised, as necessary, to account for new threats and mitigating solutions.
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