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finland-WGday-april-2013-open-sustainability-notes
OKFFI Working Group Day April 2013
http://fi.okfnpad.org/working-group-day-april-2013
OPEN SUSTAINABILITY MEETING NOTES
Participants:
Juha Huuskonen
Miska Knapek
Markus Petteri Laine
Andryi Tymchenko
Karthikeya Acharya
Lilli Linkola
Jouni Juntunen
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AGENDA
13:15-15:00 Energy Hackathon meeting (with energy companies & other institutions) - figuring out what data sets we would have available for the hackathon
15-16 Break
16-19 Drafting the texts for the Working Group application + continuing the work on Energy Hackathon preparations
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NOTES
Smart grid seminar: http://www.smartregions.net/default.asp?sivuID=29180
Open API: http://www.avointuntimittaus.fi/demo.htm
Los Angeles visualization: http://sustainablecommunities.environment.ucla.edu/map/http://sustainablecommunities.environment.ucla.edu/map/
User DIY example from Finland. Consumption and spot price: http://lampopumput.info/foorumi/index.php?topic=17709.msg224362#msg224362
It's time to use the data. (this is perhaps something that should be mentioned in opening of the hackathon). Cost of remote metering installations in Finland is 600-700 million euros: http://www.stek.fi/sahkomarkkinat/sahkon_oston_perusteita/fi_FI/sahkon_mittaaminen/
Fingrid data, total electricity production and consumption: http://www.fingrid.fi/fi/sahkomarkkinat/kulutus-ja-tuotanto/Sivut/default.aspx
Example from Germanly: Electricity production from different souces: http://www.transparency.eex.com/de/
Ideas for the Hackathon?
- Making Metering Matter: Co-designing/Prototyping the domestic energy meter in the Fab Lab
- If sharing of domestic energy consumption and micro-generation data in the local scale can lead to small alternative economies?
- Domestic Energy use is measured in standarized techno scientific units, what does it mean for the normal consumer? How can we design alternatives to make material usage matter?
- People's Energy Market
- Switching off (a city block could switch off for a day, in Earth Hour style... switch off not just from energy grid but other grids/systems as well)
Recent report of decentralised solar power could be quite a problem for large scale energy company incomes.
http://grist.org/climate-energy/solar-panels-could-destroy-u-s-utilities-according-to-u-s-utilities
ENERGY HACK KEY WORDS
production, consumption, social justice, data, games, peoples energy market, energy footprint, switches, metering, emotions and energy, business, two way information flows,
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ENERGY HACKATHON LINKS
Webpage: http://fi.okfn.org/energy-hackathon-2013/
Themes / data sets / ideas / inspiration: http://fi.okfnpad.org/energy-hackathon-2013-themes
Mentors: http://fi.okfnpad.org/energy-hackathon-2013-mentors
Participants: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0As1tewsvl857dHQtaUtWeTU4ZnBrS3dIVjlpSkVnTGc&usp=sharing
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IDEAS FROM PARTICIPANTS:
Existing and new green building designs. Linking this data to LEED and BREEAM rating systems.
Energy usage data, power failure data
Visualization of solar energy production in Finland.
I would like to record short videos of the projects that can be used by the participants in exchange for open further use later on online and maybe in TV and on screen.
"1. General visualisation of consumption habits over longer periods of time. Allow people to compare particular weekdays/weekends over a longer period of time.
2. Ambient energy consumption display - eg. a light display of some sort, which can act as a decorative item, but also enlighten people about their energy consumption habits. "
I'd like to make people proud of saving energy, using and producing renewable energy. How to make this fun, easy to understand and something that you can share with your neighbors and followers in social media. (I don't have ready made answer to these questions.)
3. Visualization of energy production (fossil+renewable+nuclear+import) and possibly consumption ( industry+consumers+export)
4. Compare your own electricity bill to ""real market price"" i.e. spot price
-upload hourly consumption data
-nordpool spot price used
-compare to current provider kwh price
(Helen has something like this for energy users who buy more than distribution from Helen, but available not all utilities)"
I am still new at the energy questions. I have been using Helen's sävel and participated in Karthikeya's and Samir's installation. I'd like to dig more into what energy consumption data and info would be useful to have on a daily basis and what choices and actions could they affect.
3. Functional energy use