INVOLVEMENT OF END-USERS IN MULTI-USER SOLAR HYBRID GRIDS – IMPLICATIONS FORPROFESSIONALS IN THE FIELD

摘要

Environmental psychology is concerned with different environments like natural, social and culturalenvironments, including the constructed ones as well as technical instruments, which are influencing and areinfluenced by people. On the use of solar energy technology, the article describes the application of the social design theory, derived from architectural psychology on the one hand and on the other hand from the socio-technical system design theory, which is originated in organizational psychology. Using a phase model, implications for professionals in the field are presented. The five different phases are: concept, contact, preparation, implementation and follow up. Social issues are important in every single phase, but nevertheless they are often ignored. Participation and action research can be very helpful: Firstly in order to further elaborate the human factor in rural energy supply and secondly in order to spread the knowledge on how to take people into account for a sustainable development into social as well as engineering sciences.