This paper discusses the results of a study in Bangalore, India where behaviorally designed household energy reports helped reduce energy use by 7 percent among participating households. While this concept of using energy reports to impact behavior is not new in the Global North, its use in India reveals that these insights may have more universal, and underused, applications.
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