Reducing residential energy consumption through a marketized behavioral intervention: The approach of Household Energy Saving Option (HESO)

Xu, Qian; Lu, Yujie; Hwang, Bon‐Gang; Kua, Harn Wei

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110621

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“…Our study is related to the research on green incentive programs designed for cultivating green behaviors. There are a lot of studies that initiate experimental incentive programs to test if external incentives are effective in promoting sustainable behaviors such as litter collection (Burgess et al, 1971;Clark et al, 1972), waste recycling (Harder and Woodard, 2007;Timlett and Williams, 2008;Boonrod et al, 2015;Xu et al, 2018), energy conservation (Katzev and Johnson, 1984;Andor and Fels, 2018;Xu et al, 2021), and public transportation (Everett et al, 1974;Lai, 2015;Li et al, 2020). Besides showing the effectiveness of the incentives in promoting green behaviors, some of the studies also discuss the cost-effectiveness of these programs (see, e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Motivating individual carbon reduction with saleable carbon credits: policy implications for public emission reduction projects

Han

Kong

Wang

et al. 2022

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PurposeA public emission reduction project offers saleable carbon credits to encourage individual residents to participate in activities with low carbon emissions: if the residents participate, they will earn carbon credits that can be sold to polluting firms for carbon offsetting. This study explores the economic and environmental implications of these projects.Design/methodology/approachThe authors develop a multiperiod model to incorporate the decisions of individual residents and a polluting firm. The model captures residents' difference in estimating the price of carbon credits: A proportion of residents are naive residents who shortsightedly take the previous market price of carbon credits as the basis of their decision-making.FindingsA public emission reduction project can improve the cost-efficiency of carbon reduction, increase both the profit of the polluting firm and consumer surplus, but may hurt the welfare of the participating residents. Reducing transaction costs of carbon credits may cause a greater loss to participating residents. As the ratio of naive residents decreases, the overall welfare of participating residents increases and the number of participating residents decreases.Practical implicationsTo encourage more residents to reduce carbon emissions, the project should be promoted to new areas (e.g. rural areas) where there are more naive residents. Although reducing transaction costs is an effective way to increase the economic viability of the project, the government should pay attention to protecting the welfare of residents, and educating residents is an effective way to improve their overall welfare.Originality/valueThis paper is the first to reveal the economic and environmental implications of public emission reduction projects.

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“…, 2015; Xu et al. , 2018), energy conservation (Katzev and Johnson, 1984; Andor and Fels, 2018; Xu et al. , 2021), and public transportation (Everett et al.…”

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Motivating individual carbon reduction with saleable carbon credits: policy implications for public emission reduction projects

Han

Kong

Wang

et al. 2022

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“…Interventions aimed at increasing household energy efficiency can apply to numerous aspects and factors impacting energy consumption and energy behaviours. These can include activities associated with, among others, household energy renovations and retrofits [51][52][53], investing in renewable energy sources (RES) [54,55], energy certificates [56] and labels [57][58][59], energy audits [60] and consulting [61], advanced energy metering infrastructure/smart meters [62][63][64], different-purpose subsidies [65] or other financial incentives [66]. Some existing research [38] points to the large role of information, rewards but also technology and the influence of social norms in changing energy behaviours, especially in the short term.…”

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How to Encourage Energy Savings Behaviours? The Most Effective Incentives from the Perspective of European Consumers

2021

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Ongoing climate change and increasing energy consumption are becoming a serious threat to international development efforts. To ensure a secure and sustainable future, local, national and regional authorities, as well as energy companies, need to be involved in improving energy efficiency and promoting rational energy use. The consumer is always at the centre of interest of policy and energy reduction strategies makers. It is their behaviour, motives and beliefs that can lead to optimised and economical energy management. This paper responds to the need to identify the individual preferences of energy consumers. The presented research fills an existing gap in the literature by analysing the strength of the influence of different types of instruments and external stimuli shaping pro-environmental attitudes of consumers of different behavioural types. The analysis presented in this paper is the result of the next stage of the authors’ research on energy consumers modelling, their segmentation and comprehensive characteristics. The analysis was conducted on a representative sample of N = 4332 respondents from 8 European countries (Czech Republic, France, Greece, Spain, Germany, Poland, Romania, and the United Kingdom). The study used multivariate statistical methods, such as: Correspondence Analysis, Factor Analysis and Kruskal-Wallis test. These methods are adequate to the assumptions of the research procedure and allowed for the identification of 4 latent factors that link the incentives into groups, where the motivation to save energy is based on: information (“Information and Knowledge”), social norms (“Social Influence”), investment funding (“Investments”) and energy price changes (“Energy Price”). In addition, the level of effectiveness of the studied incentives and motivators depends on the behavioural type of energy consumers and increases with rising levels of their intrinsic pro-environmental motivation.

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“…Condominium annual cooling energy demands can be reduced when important design variables that can be decided at an early stage for energy efficient design are taken into account. Similarly, numerous studies [39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46] examined the systems for energy efficiency. For instance, one study [47] built a model to estimate the final energy intensity of the building sector for space heating, household hot water, electricity for space cooling, and electricity for spaceless cooling in New York City, this model assumed that the final use depends largely on the functionality of the building, not on the type of construction or age of the building.…”

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“…Several studies have attempted various technological approaches for specific purposes, like a retrofit approach for the net zero energy target of a four-floored office building in excellent weather to mitigate energy usage [47], the application of household energy saving options (HESO) to guide behavioral strategies of energy conservation [41], smart meter data clustering which yields a highly detailed and high-resolution electrical load dataset to develop a residential building's electricity consumption profile [9], simulation technology scenarios for converting condominiums into energy communities [37], and a multidimensional hybrid approach combining multiple interactions between observationbased and simulation-based data using the energy model's graphical software interface [1].…”

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Oversized Electrical Appliance Impacts on Condominium Energy Efficiency and Cost-Effectiveness Management: Experts’ Perspectives

Buranaaudsawakul

Wisaeng

2021

ASI

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A direct use approach incorporating a cost approach assumed that replacing oversized electrical appliances with those better fit to actual energy consumption can reduce energy consumption, optimizing capacities of the new appliances to the maximum while reducing electricity costs. This study aimed to verify the assumption that the size of appliances has impacts on energy consumption and cost effectiveness. A mixed-method approach included these instruments for data elicitations (i.e., a questionnaire, data records of 485 transformers, two assessments of condominium technical caretakers, and two in-depth interviews of electrical engineering experts). The findings revealed that most condominiums installed electric appliances that are too large for their actual energy usage, which lies between 5.4% and 7.1% of the capacity. This study therefore proposed a total cost reduction of 54% by downsizing these appliances (i.e., MV Switchgear 2 sets, dry type transformer 2 sets 80,000, LV Cable 10 m. (XLPE), main distribution board, Busduct (MDB-DB), generator (20% of Tr.), and generator installation). Even though this analysis is limited to Bangkok, Thailand, this case may contribute decision-making on electrical appliance selection at early stage of investment or to downsize the currently installed appliances for the more energy efficient and cost-effective management of condominiums around the world.

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Reducing residential energy consumption through a marketized behavioral intervention: The approach of Household Energy Saving Option (HESO)

Cited by 33 publications

References 69 publications

Motivating individual carbon reduction with saleable carbon credits: policy implications for public emission reduction projects

Motivating individual carbon reduction with saleable carbon credits: policy implications for public emission reduction projects

How to Encourage Energy Savings Behaviours? The Most Effective Incentives from the Perspective of European Consumers

Oversized Electrical Appliance Impacts on Condominium Energy Efficiency and Cost-Effectiveness Management: Experts’ Perspectives

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