Household energy use: Applying behavioural economics to understand consumer decision-making and behaviour

Frederiks, Elisha R.; Stenner, Karen; Hobman, Elizabeth V.

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2014.09.026

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“…heuristics, limited attention) and the need to address them with (innovative) policy interventions (e.g. Bager and Mundaca 2017;Frederiks et al 2015;Gillingham and Palmer 2014;Pichert and Katsikopoulos 2008). Sonnenschein et al (2018) argue that, in addition to performance standards and carbon pricing, further (mixes of) policy interventions that address behavioral anomalies should be studied (e.g., labelling programs, green defaults).…”

Section: Behavioral Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Demand-side approaches for limiting global warming to 1.5 °C

Mundaca

Ürge-Vorsatz²,

Wilson

2018

Energy Efficiency

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The Paris Climate Agreement defined an ambition of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels. This has triggered research on stringent emission reduction targets and corresponding mitigation pathways across energy economy and societal systems. Driven by methodological considerations, supply side and carbon dioxide removal options feature prominently in the emerging pathway literature, while much less attention has been given to the role of demand-side approaches. This special issue addresses this gap, and aims to broaden and strengthen the knowledge base in this key research and policy area. This editorial paper synthesizes the special issue's contributions horizontally through three shared themes we identify: policy interventions, demand-side measures, and methodological approaches. The review of articles is supplemented by insights from other relevant literature. Overall, our paper underlines that stringent demand-side policy portfolios are required to drive the pace and direction of deep decarbonization pathways and keep the 1.5°C target within reach. It confirms that insufficient attention has been paid to demand-side measures, which are found to be inextricably linked to supply-side decarbonization and able to complement supply-side measures. The paper also shows that there is an abundance of demand-side measures to limit warming to 1.5°C, but it warns that not all of these options are Bseen^or captured by current quantitative tools or progress indicators, and some remain insufficiently represented in the current policy discourse. Based on the set of papers presented in the special issue, we conclude that demand-side mitigation in line with the 1.5°C goal is possible; however, it remains enormously challenging and dependent on both innovative technologies and policies, and behavioral change. Limiting warming to 1.5°C requires, more than ever, a plurality of methods and integrated behavioral and technology approaches to better support policymaking and resulting policy interventions.

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Section: Behavioral Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Demand-side approaches for limiting global warming to 1.5 °C

Mundaca

Ürge-Vorsatz²,

Wilson

2018

Energy Efficiency

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“…Environmental behavior is also guided by social norms, i.e., the explicit and implicit Brules,^guidelines, or behavioral expectations within a group or society that shape what is deemed normal or desirable (Ajzen 1991;Cialdini and Trost 1998;Frederiks et al 2015). In other words, norms are prescriptions that tell members what they should and should not do under certain circumstances.…”

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A behavioral change-based approach to energy efficiency in a manufacturing plant

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In the realm of industrial energy efficiency studies, very little research has been done to understand the barriers and opportunities to influence behavior of production workers and the corresponding energysaving potentials. This paper analyzes a case study of Volvo Construction Equipment AB in Braås, Sweden (VCE Braås), that has reduced its relative idle electricity use by more than 10 percentage points during 2013-2016 by implementing a strategy of changing everyday behavior of production workers. The results based on interviews with actors involved in the energy efficiency project showed that a concrete goal, the employment of a fulltime operational leader who earlier worked as a production worker at VCE Braås, and the involvement of both the leadership and employees in project management were key to the success of the project.

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“…The work presented in [9] presents incentive-based consumption scheduling solutions towards this goal. Reward-based incentives, on the other hand, give either financial incentives to users for curtailing their load during peak-demand [10], or promote collaboration and competition for encouraging renewable and sustainable energy use and proenvironmental behaviour more broadly [11].…”

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Methodology for managing cost-effective demand response campaigns based on demand elasticity profiles

Anastopoulou

Kalogiros

Stamoulis

2017

2017 Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT)

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Abstract-We develop and evaluate a methodology for running manual implicit and explicit Demand Response campaigns in order to improve the sustainability of smart grids. Initially, we introduce a flexibility profiling engine that relies on the correlation among end-user's consumption, prices and environmental conditions. Then, we investigate two mechanisms so that an Aggregator, acting as an intermediate between the Distribution System Operator or Retailer and the consumers, achieves the desired demand flexibility. More precisely we introduce: (i) a price-based mechanism that determines the new price that consumers will be paying during the DR campaign, and (ii) a reward-based mechanism that determines which set of consumers should participate in the campaign, along with the load flexibility to be asked from each one and the reward offered. The proposed methodology is evaluated using a publicly-available dataset. It is shown that CES model achieves high accuracy and that the details obtained using the proposed mechanisms are more favorable than the equivalent used. 1

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Household energy use: Applying behavioural economics to understand consumer decision-making and behaviour

Cited by 709 publications

References 128 publications

Demand-side approaches for limiting global warming to 1.5 °C

Demand-side approaches for limiting global warming to 1.5 °C

A behavioral change-based approach to energy efficiency in a manufacturing plant

Methodology for managing cost-effective demand response campaigns based on demand elasticity profiles

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