ENI recognises that Ireland’s Smart Energy Future is not only dependent on the rollout of Smart Grid infrastructure. A Smarter Energy Network involves the smart usage of all resources by each member of the Community Network. For this reason, ENI has conceptualized ENI Smart Communities- a website capable of assisting residential consumers in reducing their consumption of electricity. ENI Smart Communities is based on two main concepts: Social Pressure and Competition. The website will allow the user to compare their electricity usage to the average and most efficient levels of consumption within their local area and throughout the country of Ireland as a whole. Residential consumers will also be able to rank their usage with respect to their peers on Household Leaderboards. On a larger scale ENI Smart Communities will also target communities of residential consumers using Community Leaderboards. This feature will aggregate the performance users within local areas and rank performance with respect to other communities within the country. A prototype website of ENI Smart Communities has been developed and is available at the link below.

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