Växjö Energi and Logica launch energy saving web service for consumers
Award winning web solution means households can even “compete” to save energy
Swedish energy company Växjö Energi AB (VEAB) and Logica, a leading IT and business services company, are today launching EnergiKollen, a solution encouraging consumers to better understand and thus lower their energy consumption. The solution includes a function enabling consumers to compete with each other in energy saving. EnergiKollen, which has won the European Utility Award, is now available to more than 20,000 households equipped with smart meters in the town of Växjö in the South of Sweden.
EnergiKollen aims to increase the awareness of energy consumers by making it easier and more interesting to monitor and change their energy usage. The intent is to engage the overall community in the city of Växjö, from young to old to save energy. EnergiKollen plays an important part in the SAMS project, an energy saving initiative aiming to reduce electricity usage in Växjö by five per cent.
EnergiKollen is a web based solution with easy-to-follow graphics outlining changes of energy consumption. Customers of VEAB can log on to the service over the internet free of charge in order to analyse their usage of electricity, water and heating. By enabling the comparison of energy consumption of different households (for example to see how much energy is being used by people living in a similar sized apartment), customers are being motivated to lower their usage.
EnergiKollen also includes a competition function allowing users to compete with each other. The first challenge kicks off on May 19, when the inhabitants of Växjö are invited to compete in saving electricity. The winners, who will receive excellent prizes, are those succeeding in achieving the greatest savings in their homes during one week.
Ann-Mari Ståhlberg, CEO of VEAB said: ”VEAB is part of many initiatives contributing to a better environment and we are in the forefront when it comes to sustainable energy development. We have succeeded in reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels by 86 per cent since 1993, while reducing the total amount of emissions by 30 per cent per capita in the town of Växjö. With EnergiKollen we can build on our achievements and offer our customers what we always strive for – namely the opportunity to impact and reduce energy consumption.”
Anders Wallin, responsible for Utilities at Logica in Sweden, said: ”We are convinced that technology is one of the most important enablers for reducing the environmental impact of many businesses. Smart environmental solutions are a priority for us and EnergiKollen is a good example of how you can achieve major improvements with a combination of technology and user-friendly design.”
EnergyKollen has already been awarded the European Utility Award for Customer Excellence at the Metering Europe conference in October 2007. The prize was won for the following reason: ”Advanced smart meters have been combined with an understanding of the customer and customer interaction to deliver an advanced metering model for the future.”
EnergiKollen is based on Microsoft .NET and Oracle databases. As part of the next phase of the project, the service will be made available to commercial users, who will be able to access additional advanced services for energy analysis at a cost.
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About Växjö Energi
Växjö Energi is a municipal company owned directly by local residents. In our responsibility includes carrying out production of district heating and electricity from our Sandvik biofuelbased combined heat and power plant and the expansion of district and local heating. Another important part of our business is WexNet, our open operator-independent optic fibre network, which currently covers all the districts of Växjö Town and a large number of smaller villages in Växjö Municipality. www.veab.se
Read more about the environmental work in the town of Växjö: http://www.vaxjo.se/default.aspx?id=1630
About Logica
Logica is a leading IT and business services company, employing 39,000 people across 36 countries. It provides business consulting, systems integration, and IT and business process outsourcing services. Logica works closely with its customers to release their potential – enabling change that increases their efficiency, accelerates growth and manages risk. It applies its deep industry knowledge, technical excellence and global delivery expertise to help its customers build leadership positions in their markets. Logica is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG).
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