Smart meters and energy savings in Italy: Determining the effectiveness of persuasive communication in dwellings

D’Oca, Simona; Corgnati, Stefano Paolo; Buso, Tiziana

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2014.07.015

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“…Instead, researchers argue that the discussion of behavior should be guided by the social context of habits, occupant motives, and attitudes (86). Measures aimed at habits, such as information disclosure and feedback on energy consumption (particularly through smart meters) can result in substantial household energy savings (86)(87)(88)(89). The framing of the problem also affects the types of policies proposed, and there is an increasing need to integrate engineering, economic, and behavioral perspectives for effective policy (90-93).…”

Section: Buildingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Technology: Demand-Side Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation

Creutzig

Fernandez

Haberl³

et al. 2016

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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The assessment literature on climate change solutions to date has emphasized technologies and options based on cost-effectiveness analysis. However, many solutions to climate change mitigation misalign with such analytical frameworks. Here, we examine demand-side solutions, a crucial class of mitigation options that go beyond technological specification and costbenefit analysis. To do so, we synthesize demand-side mitigation options in the urban, building, transport, and agricultural sectors. We also highlight the specific nature of demand-side solutions in the context of development. We then discuss key analytical considerations to integrate demand-side options into overarching assessments on mitigation. Such a framework would include infrastructure solutions that interact with endogenous preference formation. Both hard infrastructures, such as the built environment, and soft infrastructures, such as habits and norms, shape behavior and as a consequence offer significant potential for reducing overall energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. We conclude that systemic infrastructural and behavioral change will likely be a necessary component of a transition to a low-carbon society.

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Section: Buildingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Technology: Demand-Side Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation

Creutzig

Fernandez

Haberl³

et al. 2016

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

247

141

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“…Results were also compared with data from the USA; they found that the manual-off rate at night was more than twice the level in Japan than in the USA. In Italy, a home energy management system was tested in 31 homes (D'Oca et al 2014). Testing showed that persuasive communication strategies (e.g., competition between similar households) are effective in lowering energy use, with an average energy savings of 18%.…”

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A critical review on questionnaire surveys in the field of energy-related occupant behaviour

Bélafi

Hong

Reith³

2018

Energy Efficiency

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“…For example, Google has invested in the development of smart home thermostats [140], and energy utility companies now offer humancentered products like smart metering systems [92] and energy use feedback services such as the OPower enhanced energy bill [121,141,142] and System as a Service (SaaS) [143]. In commercial buildings, a broad range of human-building interaction technologies are now available on the market (e.g., Comfy, CrowdComfort, BuildingIQ, Metasys), which enable advanced HIL building management and automation services.…”

Section: The Human Dimensions Of Building Technologies: Manufacturersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Additionally, smart energy meters and pervasive environmental sensing technologies promote data-rich building environments that help to infer which occupant behaviors hold the greatest influence on energy performance outcomes [65][66][67]. Researchers have drawn from these available data sources in identifying correlations between observed system states (i.e., windows being opened/closed [31,38,48,[72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82], shades and blinds being drawn [79][80][81][82][83][84][85]); conditions or variables of the indoor and outdoor environment (i.e., indoor and outdoor air temperature, relative humidity); the attitudes, beliefs, satisfaction [86][87][88][89][90][91][92][93][94] and socio-demographic aspects of the occupant population [42,[99][100][101][102][103]; and actual building energy performance.…”

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The human dimensions of energy use in buildings: A review

D’Oca

Hong

Langevin

2018

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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The "human dimensions" of energy use in buildings refer to the energy-related behaviors of key stakeholders that affect energy use over the building life cycle. Stakeholders include building designers, operators, managers, engineers, occupants, industry, vendors, and policymakers, who directly or indirectly influence the acts of designing, constructing, living, operating, managing, and regulating the built environments, from individual building up to the urban scale. Among factors driving high-performance buildings, human dimensions play a role that is as significant as that of technological advances. However, this factor is not well understood, and, as a result, human dimensions are often ignored or simplified by stakeholders. This paper presents a review of the literature on human dimensions of building energy use to assess the state-of-the-art in this topic area. The paper highlights research needs for fully integrating human dimensions into the building design and operation processes with the goal of reducing energy use in buildings while enhancing occupant comfort and productivity. This research focuses on identifying key needs for each stakeholder involved in a building's life cycle and takes an interdisciplinary focus that spans the fields of architecture and engineering design, sociology, data science, energy policy, codes, and standards to provide targeted insights.Greater understanding of the human dimensions of energy use has several potential benefits including reductions in operating cost for building owners; enhanced comfort conditions and productivity for building occupants; more effective building energy management and automation systems for building operators and energy managers; and the integration of more accurate control logic into the next generation of human-in-the-loop technologies. The review concludes by summarizing recommendations for policy makers and industry stakeholders for developing codes, standards, and technologies that can leverage the human dimensions of energy use to reliably predict and achieve energy use reductions in the residential and commercial buildings sectors.

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Smart meters and energy savings in Italy: Determining the effectiveness of persuasive communication in dwellings

Cited by 90 publications

References 26 publications

Beyond Technology: Demand-Side Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation

Beyond Technology: Demand-Side Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation

A critical review on questionnaire surveys in the field of energy-related occupant behaviour

The human dimensions of energy use in buildings: A review

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