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ISEES is a project in the Intelligent Energy Europe Programme of the European Commission which started in January 2006 and lasted for two years until December 2008
Project purpose
- The Purpose of this Project is to examine the rationality behind consumer's choices and the influence of the individual user behavior on the energy demand in social housing. It will develop solutions to integrate RES and RUE measures in social housing based on a concept using "social dialogue", and protect the existing valuable infrastructure from obsolescence by developing options to improve efficient supply to these buildings (e.g. optimization of existing district heating systems).
- The ISEES project wants to implement a "social dialogue" between users, housing associations, energy utilities (e.g. DH companies and energy supply companies) and municipalities, in order to
- Identify the problems connected to energy use in social housing (from supply and demand side).
- Provide stakeholders with appropriate tools and socio-economic tools to optimize the energy use in social housing (e.g. improving thermal quality of buildings, slowing down the disconnection process, increasing the use of RES, involving occupants into a constructive dialogue on energy optimization, development of user manual, implementation of actions to change user behavior).
- Assess the quality of services provided by utilities and district heating companies.
The direct project results expected were:
- A better understanding of users' behaviour, their motivation and their needs for energy services, based on field testing.
- Knowledge of socio-economic rationality that that lies behind individual decision-making processes.
- The outline of a model refurbishment process for each participating country where needs of the occupants are being respected and where tenants/owners are actively involved in the development and realization of improvement measures.
- A set of measures developed to improve the situation of tenants/owners regarding energy use, within the given limits and raise their awareness for realisable measures.
- A set of tools for decision-makers in the housing sector (housing associations, municipalities, planners) and energy utilities (e.g. district heating companies) to improve the quality of social housing on the one hand, and energy services on the other hand.
- Improved knowledge of problems associated with retrofitting of social houses, to provide more appropriate solutions.
- Country-specific recommendations for the dispersion of low-energy social housing concepts within existing buildings.
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