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=== The technological dimension ===
* both electricity and information are exchanged
* ensuring interoperability in smart power grids
* reporting energy usage to increase efficiency
=== The environmental dimension ===
* pushing decarbonisation
* Consumers more likely to install renewable sources of energy (e.g. solar panels)
* consumers have a greater influence on the amount of renewable energy used in Europe
== The Present: Obstacles to be adressed ==
=== The economic dimension ===
* more efficiency through smart grids
* flexibility through information of residential energy use
* intelligent and flexible grids instead of linear distribution
=== The societal dimension ===
* Energy illiteracy: In the current system, the user is a passive consumer, always dependent on utility companies, ignorant of how the energy system works
=== The technological dimension ===
* both electricity and information are exchanged
* ensuring interoperability in smart power grids
* reporting energy usage to increase efficiency
=== The environmental dimension ===
* pushing decarbonisation
* Consumers more likely to install renewable sources of energy (e.g. solar panels)
* consumers have a greater influence on the amount of renewable energy used in Europe
How can consumers be turned into prosumers?
How will power grids, distributed energy etc. be regulated?
Should renewable energy sources be in the focus?
