Germany has been very slow compared to other European countries in adopting smart meters

 It was great yesterday to speak again at the United Nations during the Sustainable Energy Week! And fun!

This time, I explained why Germany has been very slow compared to other European countries with implementing smart meter technology. #SmartMeters are critical for today's #energyGrid in allowing households to supply electricity as well.

Apart from technical, organizational, economic, and regulatory barriers, behavioral barriers played an important role as well. These behavioral barriers include: 

- lack of motivation: individuals may have had a lack of intrinsic motivation, may have experienced high costs of change, and may not have felt that this technology would benefit them

- lack of perceived ability: individuals may have had a fear of failure when adopting the technology or have had limiting beliefs about their (in)ability to use this technology

- limited #environmentalism: individuals may not have had clear positively formulated goals about how they want to contribute to the energy transition or have been inconsistent by not taking action

You can read more about Germany's surprising adoption process in our paper: 

https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2024-08/behavioural.barriers_case.study_.2024_0.pdf

I would also like to thank Sudha Setty (She/Her), Dr Alina Mia Udall and all other members of the Task Force on Digitalization in Energy for their valuable contributions to this work! And it was great to meet wonderful "new" people, including José Ángel Leiva Vilaplana, Roberto Monaco, Nicolae Darii, TeeKay (Thorsten) Kreissig and to meet "old" friends including Stefan M. Buettner, Andrei Covatariu, Elizabeth Massey, Igor Litvinyuk, Sylvain Clermont, ing. M.Ing.

#EnergyTransition #Germany #EnergieWende