Feedback on electricity usage for home energy management: A social experiment in a local village of cold region.

Highlights: [•] This paper purposed to reduce total electricity consumption of households in a cold area, Japan. [•] We implemented an information provision system to install four households for one year. [•] The system provided the information of electricity consumption 15min interval via websites. [•] We considered temperature effects to electricity demand and made a benchmark for evaluation. [•] Consequently, a tendency of reduction of electricity consumption could be seen in two households. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]