IEEE Power & Energy Magazine - January/February 2017 - 53

The Consumer's
Role in Flexible
Energy Systems
An Interdisciplinary
Approach to Changing
Consumers' Behavior
By Geertje Schuitema,
Lisa Ryan, and
Claudia Aravena

A

A TRANSITION TO FOSSIL-FREE ENERGY
systems is necessary to secure a safe, reliable, and
sustainable future. This implies increasing shares
of renewable energy sources, such as solar and
wind, and introduces new challenges in terms of
flexibility, storage, and energy transmission. Consumers play a crucial role in achieving this energy
transition, as consumer flexibility is required to
accommodate variable generation and peak loads.
This implies that consumers become more flexible
in their energy use and adopt technologies that facilitate greater reliance on renewable energy sources.
Increasing consumers' flexibility is complex,
and the solution lies in a combination of many disciplines, such as psychology, marketing, economics,
anthropology, computer science, and engineering.

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