The successful story of the first EU funded CLEAR project (IEE 13-588) – enabling Consumers to Learn about, Engage with and Adopt Renewable energy technologies - will continue from September 2017 with Clear 2.0. It will actively guide consumers through all the stages leading to the purchase of domestic renewable and low-carbon energy technologies. It has the objective to enable consumers to become more aware, active players, to save money and to easily become “prosumers”.
Strategy
The Clear 2.0 project accompanied consumers through all the stages leading to the purchase and the correct efficient use of domestic renewable and low-carbon energy technologies. It focused as well on changing behavior and optimization of existing installations.
The main needs of a home, including heating/cooling and electricity production (including storage and monitoring systems) will be addressed through a consumer-centric approach. The aim is to change behavior and form collective consumer groups to support the purchase of renewable energy systems such as photovoltaic installations, batteries, pellet stoves and heat pumps for heating and cooling.
The four major barriers (awareness, behavior, stability of legislation and price) to the investment in RES have been directly addressed with the aim to achieve a higher consumer engagement.
BEUC and the consumer organizations focus their advocacy work on relevant legislative developments in order to overcome existing barriers and facilitate consumers’ participation in the energy market. It will distill policy lessons to create a favorable and stable national and European policy framework for the benefit of all European consumers.
Partners engaged
The CLEAR consortium strength lies in our extensive knowledge of consumers and our technical expertise.
The consortium is composed of 6 consumer organizations (Test Achats/Test Aankoop, OCU, DECO Proteste, Altroconsumo, Mipor, dTest), the International Consumer Research & Testing (ICRT) and the European agency of consumers (BEUC)
