Showing 1 - 10 of 2,215
household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with … but participated later. The evidence suggest that the customers who participated in the survey reduced their electricity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407824
Firms and governments often use moral suasion and economic incentives to influence intrinsic and extrinsic motivations … level by a sufficient time interval between interventions. Economic incentives induce larger treatment effects, little … habituation, and significant habit formation. Our results suggest moral suasion and economic incentives produce substantially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926746
parameters using a 100,000-household field experiment. Results generally contradict conventional wisdom: there is no evidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959519
This paper studies the determinants of why low-income households in Ireland abandon energy efficiency retrofit applications using administrative data from a targeted energy efficiency grant. By applying for the scheme the applicants overcome any financial barriers for undertaking retrofits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520138
would pay the electricity bills of residential customers in April and May 2020, effectively making electricity free, as long … of the Tbilisi city limits, finding that the average household increased usage by some 5% above and beyond their normal … when the policy is in place low-volume consumers increase their electricity usage and high-volume consumers decrease it in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444790
over 700%. We combine the monthly meter readings with documentation about each household's heating-related energy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009746
This paper focuses on decentralized energy in Germany and how households' environmental behavior in terms of energy consumption is shaped in these contexts. It sets out to gain a more precise understanding of whether decentralized energy initiatives are a good tool to promote the adoption of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391464
responses to technological potentials. Based on a demand system analysis of household data and by approximating unobserved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294618
tiered pricing reform has reduced the monthly electricity use per household by 6.5 ​kWh (8.9 ​kWh), accounting for 6.1% (7 ….1%) of the monthly electricity use per household. Moreover, counties and provinces with a more drastic policy shift have … implemented in July 2012 on residential electricity use in China. The county-level (province-level) estimation shows that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013163838
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575101