Building a Citizen-Friendly Energy Information Platform (KRGNJ0002)

Commitment ID

KRGNJ0002

Commitment Title

Building a Citizen-Friendly Energy Information Platform

Problem

In order to reduce greenhouse gases to manage the climate crisis, two things are needed simultaneously: effective policy design through the analysis of energy consumption and efforts to conserve energy used by citizens in their daily lives. Citizens (activists) and others have consistently raised the issue of the need to develop a system that can directly view and utilize energy information by each administrative ward in each administrative district in Gwangju and that can directly view and utilize energy information by building type in the process of implementing climate change action.

Status quo

Due to the absence of an energy-use information system that can immediately check the distribution of energy use by energy type within one platform at a time, it was difficult for citizens to check on energy consumption in order to reduce energy consumption, and it is difficult for the administrative unit in charge to develop an effective energy policy without the benefit of data analysis of total energy consumption.

Action

Energy Industry Division will provide energy information to citizens, through construction of a platform that monitors use of distributed energy (gas, electricity, heat, water) and shows local energy consumption at a glance

- Step 1: ⓵ Provide information that can be checked in one place by visualizing the energy use information individually held by each public corporation, including electricity, gas, water, and heat.

• Information on real-time energy consumption: industrial complexes (2 locations) and one or two public cooperations and apartment complexes.

⓶ Share energy information and manage resident-participatory bulletin boards etc.

- Step 2: Expand the scope of energy use information to households participating in government-supported and similar projects.

- Step 3: Provide real-time energy usage information across Gwangju City

In order to construct a platform that is convenient for citizens to use, it will be promoted after consultation with the Climate Crisis Emergency Headquarters, a working group belonging to the Carbon-Neutral City Promotion Committee. The Climate Crisis Emergency Headquarters is also a public-private governance partnership consisting of  Gwangju City, the municipal educational office, the municipal council, experts, industry, and civil organizations.

How will the commitment contribute to solving the public problem described above?

Through the energy information-providing platform, the results of civic activities for energy saving can be displayed in a data format, and citizens can easily check in one place the amount of energy they have saved. As a result, civic participation can be enhanced to save energy, and a follow-up management system can be established. Furthermore, the collective analysis of distributed energy data makes it easier to monitor local energy consumption and lays the foundation for verifying the effectiveness of various energy policy projects. Also, it is expected that this open energy information can be used for education and research in related fields.

What long-term goal as identified in your Open Government Strategy does this commitment relate to?

Changing and Challenging - Innovative Gwangju: Re-structuring municipal management in its entirety in terms of innovation to promote sustainable innovation for municipal management and implementing field-oriented communication in public administration with citizens.

Primary Policy Area

Digital Governance, Open Data

Primary Sector

Environment & Climate

What OGP value is this commitment relevant to?