Green Lift is a front-stage intervention where the demand response potential of the elevator in Grundfos Dormitory Lab is analysed. The main idea was to provide the residents with information about “good” and “bad” periods to take the elevator, from a CO₂ grid emission intensity perspective. LEDs were deployed in a one-month intervention as shown in the figure. The LEDs flashed red when the electricity generation was pollutant, thereby encouraging the residents to take the stairs, and green when electricity came from renewable energy sources, encouraging the residents to take the elevator. Electricity consumption in the elevator and door opening were monitored during the field trial. In general Green Lift was successful in motivating more stair case usage and the residents were quite positive about this intervention, even though they found it a bit hard to understand that in some time periods they were encouraged to take the elevator. More details on this field trial are provided in this publication [2].

Clock Cast is a front-stage intervention were the overall goal was to make the energy forecast visible in a different way through the presence of a physical clock, showing the next ”good” hour to consume energy. In addition to the physical clock, participants also had access to a web forecast, and we sent them text messages with suggestions for how to match their consumption to the forecast. The main findings of this intervention were that shifting requires the ability to plan ahead, thus limiting the activities to be shifted to doing laundry, dishwashing and tumble drying Having the physical clock raised energy awareness but by itself is not enough to shift energy.