TIDE & WRI India winners of the Bengaluru Innovation Challenge Award 2018
Electricity consumption has steadily increased in the last two decades, and is further projected to increase eight times by 2050. Hence it is important to employ focused policy strategies, sensitise consumers and facilitate market efforts to limit consumption. TIDE and World Resources Institute (WRI) India attempt to address these challenges by empowering residential consumers for electricity conservation. Our proposed intervention VR Lite is a city level program to build awareness and change people’s behaviour towards electricity use. For this, we go beyond technology fixes, as consumption is in the realm of human behaviour. VR Lite will provide nudges for behaviour change along with best practices for efficient use.[…]