Innovative Road Map for Leveraging ICT Enabled Tools for Energy Efficiency -- From Awareness to Adoption

Educating the energy efficiency measures at grass root levels, ranging from awareness to adoption, is the need of the hour and a very significant step towards energy security. The present work proposes a project-oriented approach based roadmap for the same. The approach initiates with a pre-survey of energy users, in terms of understanding their awareness level, current energy consumption patterns, and ascertaining their proposed adoption level towards innovative energy efficiency measures. It also assesses their interest towards different IT tools and mechanisms including their interface design preferences. Material designed, custom-tailored as per the needs of the users, is proposed to be delivered through identified IT methods. A post-survey done after an active IT intervention period proposes to bring out the variation from the pre-survey. Finally, use of analytical tools in concluding phase adjudges the interventions' effectiveness in terms of awareness generation, technology adoption level, change in energy consumption patterns, and energy savings.