The project \"Energy sufficiency - strategies and instruments for a technical, systemic and cultural transformation to sustainably limit energy demand in the building\/housing consumer environment<\/strong>\", funded by the BMBF, was successfully completed at the end of 2016. The project investigated how energy-efficient everyday routines, social practices and lifestyle aspects can be harmonised with the requirements of sustainable development and how the structural and political framework conditions must be designed so that energy sufficiency becomes more acceptable and practicable in everyday life. Reduction potentials for household electricity consumption were quantified for the three energy sufficiency approaches of reduction, substitution and adaptation. Project partner:
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\nThe results were presented in the form of sufficiency spectra for selected fields of application. Subsequently, policy approaches to support energy sufficiency in private households were analysed and proposals for an integrated package of policy instruments for energy efficiency and sufficiency were developed. The findings of the project have been incorporated into an internet-based household electricity check, a handbook on sustainable product design for the appliance industry and the development of proposals for national and EU instruments to reduce electricity consumption and promote municipal climate protection.<\/p>\n
\nifeu Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg gGmbH (ifeu)
\nWuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy gGmbH (WI)
\nBerlin University of the Arts\/Design Research Lab (UdK)
\nResearch Centre for Sustainability and Climate Policy (FNK)<\/p>\n