Sustainable Energy Society: Energy Diaries and typical energy consumption profiles of households Ilgtspējīgas enerģijas sabiedrība: mājsaimniecību Enerģijas Dienasgrāmatas un raksturīgie enerģijas patēriņa profili

Ten households from the Alūksne local municipality (novads) and ten households from South Estonia participated in a study on energy consumption habits in households and made a record of their household energy consumption for one month in a specially created “Energy Diary”. When writing the Diary, the households involved used various forms of equipment and data sources – energy consumption and microclimate metering/monitoring equipment, remote electricity meters, heating and water bills, fuel checks and others. Each household analysed the results which were considered the most important by the particular household. Also, more than 90 households (total in both Vidzeme and South Estonia) participated in a survey developed by Tartu regional energy agency. Based on the obtained data, the six most characteristic profiles of energy consumers, which can be found in both Latvia and Estonia were created and described in the material (book): “Energetic People: six Energy Diaries”. The material contains information, conclusions and advice that is presented in an easy-to-read way in the form of stories. The six energy consumption profiles include one each of car use, energy consumption during the holidays (Christmas), simple choices for a small household, a small farm which gets firewood from its own forest, the renovation of an apartment house built at the time when it was part of a collective farm (kolhozs), and prosumer (solar PV). The activity was organised in the frame of the EU Interreg Estonia-Latvia cross-border cooperation programme’s project “Sustainable Energy Society”.