Consumer co-creation: the SENDER project designs a replication guide!

The SENDER project aims to place the electricity consumer at the heart of the electricity market. To this end, and under the leadership of NTNU, the project has developed a unique consumer-centric co-creation approach. Co-creation is a product or service design process in which input from consumers or other stakeholders plays a central role.

The co-creation of innovative technological solutions in cooperation with consumers is a topic of growing awareness, as it is seen as a central success factor for research and innovation projects. That’s why the project coordinator, Smart Innovation Norway, is using the results of our working group on implementing the co-creation process, to which he actively contributed, to define general, project-independent measures for implementing co-creation activities. SENDER representatives are grateful for the opportunity to present their initial findings at two forthcoming events:

• “Consumer Empowerment for Demand Response Programs” presentation by SIN as part of the International Smart Grid Action Network (ISGAN) Webinar: “Aggregator in digitalised power systems,” March 11th, 2024. 
• “Citizen engagement and co-creation in a net-zero built environment transition: challenges, best practices from EU-funded projects and future directions” presentation and publication by SIN as part of the academic conference: Net-Zero Future 2024, 1st International Conference on Net-Zero Built Environment: Innovations in Materials, Structures, and Management Practices | June 19-21, 2024 | Oslo, Norway