One of the major challenges that our world faces today and in the future is human-induced climate change. The primary cause of global warming, leading to climate change, is the burning of fossil fuels for energy and transport, which increases the concentration of greenhouse gases in the...

In the past decades, research in behavioral economics, psychology and related domains of the social sciences has analyzed how human behavior systematically deviates from normative models of choice and how the resulting insights into behavioral intervention strategies can be applied across a...

This thesis is composed of three essays on the residential electricity demand and its efficient use. In order to design and implement effective energy policy measures it is important for policy makers and utilities to have information on the response of consumers to an increase in electricity...