**5. Discussion and Conclusions**

Although the acceptance of smart meters has been studied in the literature, the consumers' readiness to use SM platform still warrants exploration.

Expecting that acceptance of SMP and involvement in energy monitoring is a phase process, we aimed to test whether messages congruent with behavioral stages in which participants declared to be are more effective in prompting participants to progress to the next stage than general messages or passive control conditions. Based on the current literature review, we have expected to observe that phase change as well as participants' attitudes to use SMP and monitor energy regularly will be affected by their environmental attitudes, energy monitoring behaviors, and knowledge on the energy market [18,36].
