{"id":373,"date":"2016-10-18T14:29:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T13:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/?p=373"},"modified":"2016-10-18T15:55:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T14:55:55","slug":"blog-entry-1-a-digital-means-to-create-and-share-energy-in-your-neighbourhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/2016\/10\/18\/blog-entry-1-a-digital-means-to-create-and-share-energy-in-your-neighbourhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Entry 1 &#8211; A digital means to create and share energy in your neighbourhood."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Our group is called JEPP \u2013 Jesmond Energy Co-Production Platform.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Members: \u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crystal, Conrad, \u00a0Rob, Chris and Brandon<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Members of JEPP met with the client Tony Waterson of the Jesmond Residents Association on Thursday 6<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> October. Initial discussions with the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">client involved &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was established that the team should approach the project by setting goals. The goals were discussed as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To improve JEPP\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To discuss the role that energy has as a resource to the target users in the locality of Jesmond.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To look into what is considered viable to the interest groups and what is not.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To foster a shared ownership of energy at neighbourhood level similar to those principles of energy co-operatives.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But ultimately,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em> we want to support residents, organisations and businesses in Jesmond in adopting \u00a0a more energy efficient approach \u00a0to their current consumption patterns.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Stakeholders<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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 &#8211; 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\u2019re the ones who\u2019ll use the energy dashboard. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, the stakeholders are afraid of installing solar panels. They\u2019re scared about the price of installing solar panels. If that\u2019s 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\u2019ve discussed about ways to communicate with them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Advertising and publicity<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We talked about ways of publicising the JEPP project:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We need to promote the JEPP project <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Find out more about the Jesmond Residents\u2019 Association<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Have a forum to gather communitiy opinions and level of interest<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Design an engaging email to send out to possible stakeholders<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Deliver a message &#8211; the importance of renewable energy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our group is called JEPP \u2013 Jesmond Energy Co-Production Platform. Members: \u00a0Crystal, Conrad, \u00a0Rob, Chris and Brandon &nbsp; Members of JEPP met with the client Tony Waterson of the Jesmond Residents Association on Thursday 6th October. Initial discussions with the client involved &#8230; &nbsp; It was established that the team should approach the project by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/2016\/10\/18\/blog-entry-1-a-digital-means-to-create-and-share-energy-in-your-neighbourhood\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blog Entry 1 &#8211; A digital means to create and share energy in your neighbourhood.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6573,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,27,33,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background-research-and-goal-setting","category-project-goals","category-team-4","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}