Pascal Kienast

Work at ZHAW

Position

Scientist, lecturer, networker, project manager, speaker, coach.

Focus

Energy, Digitalization, Sustainability

Professional development teaching

• CAS Sustainable Smart Cities & Regions – Data, Energy and Mobility
• WBK Grundlagen und Organisation von Sustainable Smart Cities & Regions
• WBK Data, Energy and Mobility for Sustainable Smart Cities & Regions
• CAS Energiesysteme für klimaneutrale Areale und Quartiere

Education and Continuing education

Education

• E-MBA in Sustainable Business
  Business School Lausanne / HSG St. Gallen
  2013 - 2015
• Master of Science in El. Eng.
  ETH Zürich
  2002 - 2007

Continuing Education

Energy Consulting
HSLU
2017

Network

Membership of networks

• CLEMAP AG
• K-Wave Consulting GmbH
• drivemycar AG (ab 2021)

Awards

Watt d'Or
SFOE
01 / 2024

Social media

Linkedin Profil

Projects

• Urban Positive Clean neigHborhood energy trAnsition: driving innovative solutions for Renovation, diGitalisation and energy Efficiency / Team member / ongoing
• Load rebate - rebate for electric vehicle charging / Deputy project leader / ongoing
• Interoperable solutions to streamline PED evolution and cross-sectoral integration / Co-project leader / ongoing
• Demo area Hard within PEDvolution-WIN / Deputy project leader / ongoing
• Data Driven Energy Efficiency / Project leader / completed
• Frigero - Towards energy autonomous temperature-controlled supply chains / Team member / completed
• Social Power Plus / Team member / completed
• From Energy Efficiency to True Sustainability / Co-project leader / completed
• Immersive Stories of Energy Futures / Project leader / completed
• SCCER CREST / Team member / completed

Publications

• Cellina, Francesca; Gerosa, Tiziano; Granato, Pasquale; Lobsiger-Kägi, Evelyn; Wemyss, Devon; Kienast, Pascal,

  2024.

  Can app-based communities support energy sufficiency in households? Evidence from a one-year quasi-experiment in Switzerland.

  Sustainable Cities and Society.

  114(105771).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2024.105771

• Cellina, Francesca; Carabias-Hütter, Vicente; Castri, Roberta; De Luca, Vanessa; Granato, Pasquale; Kienast, Pascal; Lobsiger-Kägi, Evelyn; Wemyss, Devon,

  2021.

  Social power plus : empowering households to energy sufficiency through co-designed app‑based community energy challenges[paper].

  In:

  Conference Proceedings : BEHAVE 2020-2021.

  6th European Conference on Behaviour Change for Energy Efficiency (BEHAVE 2020-2021), online, 21 - 23 April 2021.

  Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency.

  pp. 89-93.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23771

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