Participation of low income and vulnerable consumers: Project InvoLVe
A project to identify how future innovation can enable low income and vulnerable consumers to increasingly benefit from a smart energy system.
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As part of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s £505 million Energy Innovation Programme, the aim of this project is to provide technical and social research to review the domestic and international evidence base, including current innovation activities, to identify:
- the barriers to low income and vulnerable consumers participating in a smart energy system
- where innovation can help enable low income and vulnerable consumers to participate in a smart energy system
The Energy Systems Catapult has been commissioned to undertake the first phase of work.