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Discussion and Interpretation

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Green Information Systems in the Residential Sector

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Given the continuous rise of energy consumption, the limited availability of fossil fuel and the uncontrollable risks inherent to nuclear power, a transition of the energy system is necessary and inevitable. Thus, governments around the world are promoting renewable energy sources to achieve a cleaner and sustainable energy production. Being able to integrate massive flows of renewable and therefore fluctuating energies needs a new way to run the electricity grids. SMT is one part of these new smart grids, and one of the first steps in the transformation progress from today’s grids to the smart grids of the future. In this chapter, the results of the study are discussed and interpreted against this background. In the Sects. 7.1 and 7.2 the theoretical and practical contributions of the study are outlined separately. In Sect. 7.3 limitations and further research are briefly outlined.

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Wunderlich, P. (2013). Discussion and Interpretation. In: Green Information Systems in the Residential Sector. Progress in IS. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36769-4_7

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