作者: Ana B Cristóbal , Parisa Rahdan , Marta Victoria , Zhe Zhang
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摘要: In 2021, the European Commission increased the target of greenhouse gas emission reduction to at least 55% below 1990s levels by 2030. To reach the ambitious climate goals, citizens need to play a much more active role in transforming the energy sector. The EU-funded AURORA project aims to empower several thousand citizens across five locations in Denmark, England, Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain to make more informed energy decisions. By crowdfunding local energy communities and installing ca. 1 megawatt in photovoltaic (PV) power, citizens will become active ‘prosumers’, transforming the energy system at large and democratising its governance. Moreover, they will monitor their individual energy behaviour in a mobile app, and receive automated recommendations in return.One of the objectives of the project is to create the first generation of Near-Zero Emissions Citizens. To achieve this, we develop a Near-Zero Emissions Citizen Label, which citizens can use to understand the emissions linked to their energy-related behaviour, including electricity, heating/cooling and mobility. The aim of such a label is to raise awareness among citizens about the carbon emissions related to their energy-related behaviour. Together with other strategies and incentives that will be implemented in the mobile app, the label acts as a tool to encourage citizens to reduce their energy consumption and carbon emissions. Since AURORA plans to engage citizens in crowdfunding of the community-owned PV systems, the label will also take into consideration of the electricity production from the crowdfunded PV, or other renewable sources that the …