Residential energy efficiency interventions: A meta‐analysis of effectiveness studies

Berretta, Miriam; Furgeson, Joshua; Wu, Yue; Zamawe, Collins; Hamilton, Ian; Eyers, John

doi:10.1002/cl2.1206

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“…Research suggests that the residential sector accounts for 17% of global greenhouse gas emissions [37], 25.4% of EU-wide emissions [38] and 20% of UK emissions [7,39]. The UK housing stock is one of the least energy-and carbon-efficient in Europe [5], Commission for Climate Change 2019, with heating in homes accounting for 17% of the UK's carbon emissions (Department for Business, Energy, and Industry Strategy 2019.…”

Section: State Of the Housing Stockmentioning

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Increasing heat pump adoption: analysing multiple perspectives on preparing homes for heat pumps in the UK

Lamb,

Elmes

2024

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Heat pumps are a solution for decarbonising home heating in the UK. However, the readiness of UK homes for heat pumps is an area of concern regarding the policies aimed at increasing heat pump adoption. This work combines multiple perspectives in evaluating the technical readiness of homes with the market readiness of installers and homeowners to proceed with installing heat pumps. The effectiveness of past heating and energy efficiency policies in the UK are reviewed, along with building regulations, incentives to promote energy efficiency and the effectiveness of heat pump technology in heating homes. Current policies support the cost of a heat pump but home improvements to make homes ‘heat pump-ready’ can be necessary to achieve optimal heat pump system performance.This paper suggests the UK will face three major challenges. First, analysis highlights an ‘eligibility-readiness gap’ describing the difference between homes ‘eligible’ (50%) for the Government’s Boiler Upgrade Scheme—a subsidy for heat pump installations—and the likely level of homes that are heat pump-ready (11%) for successful heat pump installations. Second, semi-structured interviews with heat pump installers identified gaps in capacity to deliver the necessary works to make homes heat pump-ready. As small or medium enterprises, the majority of installers do not currently see adding home improvement services to their existing business model as beneficial. All installers highlighted the need for Government to address the cost of electricity relative to gas. Third, a national survey of homeowners in England with gas boilers (n = 1,021) revealed low awareness of the necessary work to make homes heat pump-ready and low willingness to spend money on them unless supported by Government. This paper shows that the processes and costs involved in making homes heat pump-ready before successful design and installation are underappreciated by homeowners, inadequately served by industry, and insufficiently supported by Government.

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Section: State Of the Housing Stockmentioning

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Increasing heat pump adoption: analysing multiple perspectives on preparing homes for heat pumps in the UK

Lamb,

Elmes

2024

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“…Environmental Net-zero buildings [9][10][11] Construction materials [12] Climate change mitigation [13,14] Use of smart devices IoT [15,16] Building modelling [17][18][19][20][21] Theoretical calculation models [22,23] Economy Financial instruments [24] Energy subsidy [25] Residential heating [26,27] Energy efficiency [28][29][30] Energy management [16,[31][32][33] Non-conventional renewable energies [34] Source: Own elaboration.…”

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Residential Energy Consumption-A Computational Bibliometric Analysis

Quintana

Muñoz-Repiso

2023

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This paper conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) of peer-review documents focused on residential energy consumption. The main finding of this SLR derived from its computational implementation, filling a gap in the available literature. The paper had two main objectives: (i) the SLR itself; and (ii) to systematically identify the main policy measures oriented at reducing energy consumption recommended by the available literature and its related greenhouses gas emissions. A significant lack of a connection between scientific fields was identified. The fields of energy, engineering and environmental science are those that have addressed these topics the most. The sub-field with the largest presence is energy, with 29.5%, followed by engineering (23.9%) and the environment (21.3%). It is recommended that this gap be bridged because many of the main political measures in force to reduce residential energy consumption come from economics and need to be explored from a social science perspective to choose those measures that are more cost-effective.

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Residential energy efficiency interventions: A meta‐analysis of effectiveness studies

Cited by 2 publications

References 141 publications

Increasing heat pump adoption: analysing multiple perspectives on preparing homes for heat pumps in the UK

Increasing heat pump adoption: analysing multiple perspectives on preparing homes for heat pumps in the UK

Residential Energy Consumption-A Computational Bibliometric Analysis

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