Real-time environmental feedback

According to international research, real-time environmental feedback can reduce electricity or water consumption by up to 50%. This project will investigate how it can be applied in Hjo Municipality.

Real-time environmental feedback, meaning the immediate and continuous provision of information about consumption, can, according to international research, reduce electricity or water usage by up to 50%.

In 2021 and 2022, Hjo Municipality conducted a situational analysis and held citizen and employee dialogues to establish a new vision for the sustainability goals the municipality will focus on in the coming years.

In this project, Hjo Municipality, in collaboration with the University of Skövde, aims to:

• Select relevant indicators that display the performance of selected sustainability goals in real-time;
• Technically implement data collection and appropriate visualisation of these indicators so that Hjo residents and municipal employees receive real-time environmental feedback;
• Organise specific activities to attempt to influence the indicators; and Quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate the extent to which, and why, real-time environmental feedback contributes to increased engagement and tangible success in the desired energy and climate transition.