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Blog 2 – Interview Schedule with Steve and Tony

Blog 2 – Interview Schedule

JEPP Interview with Steve Emsley and Tony Waterson

We’re meeting Steve Emsley and Tony Waterson today in Cafe 1901, West Jesmond. Attendance from the team: Entire group

  1. We know a little bit about yourself would you be able to expand more on what you do and the previous roles you have played?

a. How do you relate to renewable energy projects?

b. We did a little bit of research and know you were in Transition Initiative Newcastle before? Can you tell us the experience during that time?

  1.  Why would you invest in renewable energy?
  1. Have you ever engaged people with renewable energy before?

a,How you engaged people in Jesmond?

b. How would you engage people?

c. What worked well and what didn’t work so well?

  1. What is complicated to understand about renewable energy in your opinion and how could understanding of renewable energy be made easier?

a. Have you used any techniques in the past to do this?

b. What might raise awareness to renewable energy in Jesmond?

  1. What do you do with your energy data?

a.Have you shared your data before?

b. With your experience do you think it would be helpful?

c. What do you think of sharing your data?

d. Would you share your data digitally for other users to see what savings they could be making?

  1. Has anything changed since you installed solar panels yourselves?

a. Are there any negatives?

  1. What do you think about the people in Jesmond not using solar panels and do you know the reason behind them?

a, What will you do in order to change their mind?

b. Do you know how much energy in jesmond is produced from renewables; and how could this be found out?

    1. When do you reckon ‘peak oil’ reaches and what kind of changes will happen? (peak oil – time when oil production peaks and then falls, never rises back up again
    2. Do you think sending out messages of ‘peak oil’ incidence will change people’s mind on renewable energy?
    3. Have you ever used an energy dashboard before? What was it like?

a. What was your experience using one? Did you find it helpful?

b. If not, what can be improved on the energy dashboard you’ve used?

c. If one was available to you, would you use it to benefit for you?

11. Is there anything else you’d like to tell us if you haven’t before?

Blog Entry 1 – A digital means to create and share energy in your neighbourhood.

Our group is called JEPP – Jesmond Energy Co-Production Platform.

Members:  Crystal, Conrad,  Rob, Chris and Brandon

 

Members of JEPP met with the client Tony Waterson of the Jesmond Residents Association on Thursday 6th October. Initial discussions with the client involved …

 

It was established that the team should approach the project by setting goals. The goals were discussed as follows:

  • To improve JEPP’s understanding of renewable energy principles and current technology systems, which include solar power and our platform of an energy dashboard regarding its role and ability in reaching the target audience.
  • To discuss the role that energy has as a resource to the target users in the locality of Jesmond.
  • To look into what is considered viable to the interest groups and what is not.
  • To foster a shared ownership of energy at neighbourhood level similar to those principles of energy co-operatives.

But ultimately,

we want to support residents, organisations and businesses in Jesmond in adopting  a more energy efficient approach  to their current consumption patterns.

 

Stakeholders

We have discussed about stakeholders with our client and decided business owners are the biggest stakeholders since they uses a lot of energy compare to other stakeholders – according to our client. After that, there are less important stakeholders such as, elderly and retired people living in Jesmond, young professionals and organisation based in public buildings, since they’re the ones who’ll use the energy dashboard.

However, the stakeholders are afraid of installing solar panels. They’re scared about the price of installing solar panels. If that’s the case, they need to be communicated in order to make them notice the importance of renewable energy and the message of using renewable energy can actually save them money in the long term. Then we’ve discussed about ways to communicate with them.

Advertising and publicity

We talked about ways of publicising the JEPP project:

  • We need to promote the JEPP project
  • Find out more about the Jesmond Residents’ Association
  • Have a forum to gather communitiy opinions and level of interest
  • Design an engaging email to send out to possible stakeholders
  • Deliver a message – the importance of renewable energy
  • See if we can use exisiting ways of advertising information to the local community ( e.g. through a display at the Library or by asking if we can have an advert on a school newsletter)