About Us
SMART ENERGY COMMUNITY
“Smart Energy Community” is a research project led by the Department of Geography and the Asian Energy Studies Centre at Hong Kong Baptist University, working together with experts and educational organisations from nine universities around the world, as well as local businesses and community organisations.
From 2022 to 2024, we collaborated with six hundred residents in four Hong Kong communities, including Fairview Park, Metropolis Plaza, Sai Kung Community and Island Resort/South Horizons (TBD) to build low‑carbon smart‑energy communities.
COMMUNITY AS
ENERGY TRANSITION LAB
社區是能源變革的實驗場
Change Electricity‑use Habits
Explore New Energy
Bring The Community Together
By installing smart electricity‑use sensors at home and using the “SEE” mobile app for personalised smart energy tips, residents can earn “Carbon Coins.” Starting from everyday actions, we aim to change electricity‑use habits and foster an energy-saving atmosphere for society.
By organising community workshops, participants can make their own solar‑energy device by hand in an innovative and practical way to bring renewable‑energy technology into daily life and inspire creativity in using renewable energy. This not only can promote the advantages of renewable energy, but also let residents have a better understanding of community energy resource issues.
Through experiences and discussions, we inspire “smart‑energy households” to co‑imagine: how to save energy, generate energy, and allocate profits from energy-saving activities and solar energy. Together, we explore the possibilities of future smart‑energy communities.
Households
Communities
Our Phase 1 research is an interdisciplinary, mixed-method study of four communities in Hong Kong, involving a total of 600 households. We aim to develop and test a model for enabling behavioral change among residential electricity consumers which is underpinned by both data science (smart sensors and big data analytics (BDA)) and participatory engagement.
We test behavioral interventions by means of our mobile household energy application(app) that will deliver energy advice, in combination with a deep engagement community activities which include regular community activities (e.g., envisioning dialogues, community energy deliberative workshops, interactive energy maps, a pilot blockchain carbon token incentive scheme, and a benchmarking index.
SEE Smart
Energy Community
Incorporates energy saving in your daily life & brings solar energy to HK communities
Rewards
Get up to $700 in cash coupons ＆
exchange gifts with
"Energy Saving Coin"
Energy Saving
Read your real-time electricity consumption data, learn & understand your energy-saving achievements.
Activities
Join exciting community activities, & "Young Energy Scientists" STEM Badge Award courses, to get HKBU's certificate.
Vision
Energy Saving
Solar Energy
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The SEE project aims to establish four low-carbon smart energy communities in Hong Kong over the next four years, from 2021 to 2024 by engaging 600 households, along with experts from local universities, educational institutions, businesses, and community groups.
Goals:
1. develop energy-saving habits among SEE Mates;
2. Committed to inspiring residents to explore the future of community energy, including the development of solar and other renewable energy sources in the community.
3 types of
SEEs
The 3 "SEE"s
SEE ・ Household real-time energy consumption
SEE ・ Change in energy habits
SEE ・ Community Energy Transformation and Future
SEE Communities
Sheung Shui
SEE Mates：85
Total participating households in the district：133
Fairview Park
SEE Mates：82
Total participating households：108
Total participating households in Yuen Long：139
South Horizons & Ap Lei Chau
SEE Mates：75
Total participating households in South Horizons：98
Total participating households in the district：130
住戶：41
平均能源使用：
能源節省：
Sai Kung & Tseung Kwan O
SEE Mates：102
Total participating households in the district：187
4 Communities | 600 households | 346 SEE Mates
SEE ・ Household real-time energy consumption
SEE ・ Change in energy habits
SEE ・ Community Energy Transformation and Future
Our Households "SEE Mates"
Do you want to know the electricity consumption habits of your house/apartment?
Do you want to make the community better together?
Installation of
“Smart sensor“
and
“SEE App“
Installation
Visualisation
With “SEE App”, you can save energy by detecting and tracking your home's electricity consumption
at all times
Rewards
With our personalised SEE Energy Tips, You can save
your electricity bill and
earn “Energy Saving Coin”
to redeem rewards
Workshops
Participate our low-carbon workshops to imagine the energy future, conceive the possibility of developing solar energy with the community
Event Highlights
Naming
