Socio-Economic Energy model for Digitalization (SEED)

SEED quantifies digitalization's impact on technology investment choices, energy consumption and emissions on different energy sectors.


SEED represents the heterogeneity of decision processes of different actors in the energy sectors (households, sub-sectors of the services sector, and industries) to analyze synergies and interactions in the adoption of low-energy consuming digital services and practices induced by digitalization (so-called spillover effects). Household adoption of new digital practices can accelerate the adoption of e-services and vice-versa from the services sub-sectors. The adoption of digital technologies by households and services sub-sectors can trigger the adoption of digital technologies for process optimization in industry. Furthermore, adopting digital practices by households changes their transport and residential energy consumption, altering their investment decisions in transport and residential technologies. 

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