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Online Advisers
14 Online Advisers offer quick and competent advice on various aspects of room heating, energy saving modernisation measures, grants, and on various aspects of electricity saving as well. Thus far, more than 700 partners have integrated the Online Advisers into their own web sites – including ZDF German Television, the online property marketplace Immobilienscout24, DZ-Bank, and E.ON. The Online Advisers are consulted by 15,000 to 20,000 people each week, depending on the season. By now more than 2,600,000 online consultations have been completed.
Heating Check in English on Luxembourg data, use postal code 1234
PumpsCheck in English on UK, use postal code CB2 4RG
Energy Savings Account
The interactive Energy Savings Account (iESA) gathers and displays consumption data on fuel, electricity, and water, entered either manually or automatically. It also shows future costs (depending on users’ price expectations) and connects to the Online Advisers to help lower these costs. Over 10,000 users opened an account since August 2006. They get personalised feedback in monthly email-newsletters (e.g. "your fuel consumption is average, but electricity way worse than average, so why don’t you check your circulation pump?") and aggregate data is analysed statistically by co2online. It is co-funded by the German Federal Environment Ministry for 2009/2010.
Evaluation
Impact analyses of 4 Online Advisers (Heating, Building Modernisation, Cooling Appliances, Pumps) and of the written Heating Assessments showed that more than 3,5 million tons of CO2 will be avoided over the expected lifetime of these investments. The costs of these tools add up to about 1 Euro per ton of CO2 avoided. The calculations have been validated by the Wuppertal Institute.
Additionally, co2online quarterly publishes a "Climate Barometer". By means of online surveys, it determines the public sentiment on and interest in energy prices, security of energy supply and climate protection.