Determinants of high electricity use and high energy consumption for space and water heating in European social housing: Socio-demographic and building characteristics

Understanding the Drivers of National-Level Energy Audit Behavior: Demographics and Socioeconomic Characteristics

“…Overall, the socioeconomic and demographic findings presented here build upon and support findings in numerous empirical studies, such as [1,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]51]. Such studies highlight the many ways that individual heterogeneity in socio-demographics and behavioral choice accounts for significant variation between predicted and actual energy use in buildings, and participation in energy efficiency programs.…”

“…Some researchers point to the intention-behavior gap as a driving force behind lack of energy efficiency program participation, whereby stark differences exist between what individuals intend to do and actually do [10][11][12][13][14]; others argue that the technical and cost-saving potential for efficient buildings exists but that intervening economic factors such as information asymmetries, heterogeneous risk tolerance thresholds among individuals, and inaccurate personal discount rates lead to lack of participation in such cost-savings potential [3,4,6,[15][16][17]. Thus, many researchers are turning to socioeconomic and demographic factors as drivers of energy efficiency decisions to complement the field's knowledge of physical building characteristics that influence energy consumption [1,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]; the present study builds upon this large and growing body of research.…”

Evaluation Study of Energy Performance and Conformity to Regulations for Ordinary and HEP Housings: Case Study Based on Measurements at Djelfa City, Algeria

“…The difference of the electricity energy between the two housings; HEP and ordinary is considerable (+ 35 %). The ordinary housing exceeds is mainly due to the use of tungsten bulbs (75W), while in the HEP housing a sodium bulbs (26W) are used (Cf.table 2/5), the high consumption gap of electricity is related also to the socio-demographic characteristics of the occupants in addition to the building nature, as; the household size (+2 member), number of bedrooms (+1 room) and total floor area (+26.1m² ).These parameters are further confirmed by several researches such as; Karatasou et al (2018) and Petidis et al (2018) [16,24] (Table 5).…”

“…Their results confirm that the socio-demographic characteristics, the habits of the occupants as well as the insufficient thermal envelope have a considerable influence on their theories [15]. Karatasou et al (2018) have shown that high electricity consumption and high energy consumption for household space and water heating are related to different factors. Firstly, The high electricity consumption is related to the socio-demographic characteristics of the occupants and the nature of the building (such as household size, number of bedrooms, total floor area, building age and the existence of the electric water heating system).On the contrary, highenergy consumption for space and water heating is only related to building characteristics [16].…”

“…Karatasou et al (2018) have shown that high electricity consumption and high energy consumption for household space and water heating are related to different factors. Firstly, The high electricity consumption is related to the socio-demographic characteristics of the occupants and the nature of the building (such as household size, number of bedrooms, total floor area, building age and the existence of the electric water heating system).On the contrary, highenergy consumption for space and water heating is only related to building characteristics [16]. San Miguel-Bellod et al (2018) indicates that housing consumption is related to socioeconomic characteristics, building systems and heating systems, the result is based on a study carried out on 112 dwellings built in 40s and 80s in Spain.…”