urbEN, a Serious Game Featuring Interactions Between Actors in a Local Energy System

The Lotus project being educational in nature, it involves the creation of a serious game based on the actors’ system of the local energy transition, as presented in Chapter 10. The game’s goal is to bring a territory to energy autonomy, i.e. to an annual balance between consumption and renewable production. All the while taking into account energy savings and possible storage needs, because sun and wind are intermittent sources. The game takes place in a fictional space showing the complementarity between a town and its rural hinterland. As a role-playing game, it brings together the main actors: the local authority, residents, local and national energy operators, but also ordinary economic actors: farmers, industrial and commercial companies and property developers.