Should we fear the rebound effect in smart homes?

Walzberg, Julien; Dandres, Thomas; Merveille, Nicolas; Cheriet, Mohamed; Samson, Réjean

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2020.109798

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“…The authors highlighted that investment in ICT curbed electricity demanded by the primary metalproducing industry while it elevated the volumes of electricity consumption within other industries belonging to the manufacturing and services sectors in South Korea. Besides, the roles of ICT in catalyzing energy productivity improvement in 50 developed and underdeveloped economies were described by Yan et al 2018 Although the majority of the contemporary studies have emphasized on ICT-reducing energy consumption levels, thus implying energy efficiency gains, numerous studies have also documented evidence regarding the rebound effects associated with ICT development (Walzberg et al 2020). Sadorsky (2012) showed that ICT attributed to higher energy electricity employment in emerging economies.…”

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“…Integration of ICT into the global energy sector was predicted to 3.5 to 6.3% reduction in the global energy use intensities by the end of 2020 (Rodríguez Casal et al 2005) 3 .In addition, ICT-induced RET can also be presumed to impose favorable outcomes concerning energy efficiency improvements due to the RE resources, in comparison to the NRE resources, being more energy-intensive in nature. However, although ICT is expected to elevate the energy use efficiencies, the rebound energy consumption effects associated with ICT use cannot be overlooked whereby higher efficiency of energy use could trigger greater demand for energy (Walzberg et al 2020). Under such an adverse scenario, the energy conservation and security goals behind the liberalization of the ICT trade barriers could be jeopardized.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Simultaneously, the development of the ICT sector is also envisioned to endorse environmental welfare, particularly through the mitigation of CO 2 and other greenhouse emissions (Walzberg et al 2020). The literature on the impacts of ICT on CO 2 emissions has documented ambiguous findings.…”

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Energy security and environmental sustainability have become an integral policy agenda worldwide whereby the global economic growth policies are being restructured to ensure the reliability of energy supply and safeguard environmental well-being as well. However, technological inefficiency is one of the major hindrances in attaining these over-arching goals. Hence, this paper probed into the non-linear impacts of ICT trade on the prospects of undergoing renewable energy transition, improving energy use efficiencies, enhancing access to cleaner cooking fuels, and mitigating carbon dioxide emissions across selected South Asian economies: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Maldives. The results from the econometric analyses reveal that ICT trade directly increases renewable energy consumption, enhances renewable energy shares, reduces intensity of energy use, facilitates adoption of cleaner cooking fuels, and reduces carbon-dioxide emissions. Moreover, ICT trade also indirectly mitigates carbon-dioxide emissions through boosting renewable energy consumption levels, improving energy efficiencies, and enhancing cleaner cooking fuel access. Hence, these results, in a nutshell, portray the significance of reducing the barriers to ICT trade with respect to ensuring energy security and environmental sustainability across South Asia. Therefore, it is ideal for the government to gradually lessen the trade barriers to boost the volumes of cross-border flows of green ICT commodities. Besides, it is also recommended to attract foreign direct investments for the potential development of the respective ICT sectors of the South Asian economies.

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“…This may also apply to social system design (for example, building a TOU fee system and selecting information to be transmitted to consumers). Walzberg et al [25] said that designing a TOU electricity tariff system that does not consider household behavior may have a negative effect on the environment.…”

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On the Acceptability of Electricity Demand Side Management by Time of Day

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2020

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Advances in the introduction of fluctuating renewable energies, such as photovoltaics (PV), have caused power-system destabilization. However, stability can be improved if consumers change the way they use power, moving to time slots when the PV output in an area is high. In large cities in developed countries, where the types of distributed energy resources are varied, demand side management (DSM) in which consumers share power supplies and adjust the demand has received considerable attention. Under effective DSM that uses the latest information and communication technology to maximize the use of renewable energy, we believe that sparing use of appliances is not the only solution to address global warming. If behavioral change shifts the use of domestic appliances from one time slot to other time slots, we do not have to abandon the use of these appliances. The aim of this study is to determine the possibility of such behavioral changes in people in order to provide basic information for operating an effective DSM. To that end, we conducted a questionnaire-based survey of 10,000 households in Japan. We investigated the proportion of people responding to a request for a demand response (DR) under the given presented reward in time slots when DSM by DR is required. We also analyzed the factors influencing people’s response to a request for a DR. Furthermore, based on the rewards likely to be achieved in the adjustable power market, we estimated how much adjustable power would be realized.

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“…Soon, most electronic appliances will include network card and home automation in as PCs, mobile, IoT, refrigerator, electrical generator, heating, and air condition and controlled PC, tablet by using web-based user interface by using http (hypertext transport protocol). In this paper has been designed a smart home automation control system by using four rooms of fire alarm control that it is control fire alarm using a server-based system, air condition system, and lighting system [4].…”

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Design and Implementation of Smart Home System using Packet Tracer

Africa¹

2020

IJATCSE

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Smart home automation is a technology to make things happen at home automatically. When we say home automation, the first thing that comes to mind is robots, lighting, complex electronics, and a general feeling that it is a controlled warm, or cold condition of the home. However, some simple forms of automation such as Garage door opener, Remote controls, Irrigation/sprinkler control systems, Motion-activated lights, security systems. The home automation will have become important roles t in the human's environment because it provides the users with comfortable and calm for applying the home automation device. The design and implementation of smart home automation control uses three methods; Power Electrical system, fire alarm system, and home automation system to control of selective and security of the home device that protects the home. All of the systems are controlled by a server that also called a registration server. Some devices are used WIFI or WLAN and some of the devices that were used are wired (RJ45) or fiber optic.

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Should we fear the rebound effect in smart homes?

Cited by 47 publications

References 57 publications

An empirical analysis of the non-linear impacts of ICT-trade openness on renewable energy transition, energy efficiency, clean cooking fuel access and environmental sustainability in South Asia

An empirical analysis of the non-linear impacts of ICT-trade openness on renewable energy transition, energy efficiency, clean cooking fuel access and environmental sustainability in South Asia

On the Acceptability of Electricity Demand Side Management by Time of Day

Design and Implementation of Smart Home System using Packet Tracer

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