Energy efficiency and household behavior: the rebound effect in the residential sector

Aydın, Erdal; Kok, Nils; Brounen, Dirk

doi:10.1111/1756-2171.12190

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“…The three coefficients are not statistically different from each other, but they reveal a significant difference between the indicated temperature categories and the omitted category (≤ 20 degrees). Aydin et al (2014) find similar results, with households using more energy than the average displaying a higher direct rebound. One question then arises: Why have low temperature households a lower rebound, considering that they still sometimes rebound?…”

Section: Determinants Of the Direct Reboundsupporting

confidence: 55%

Turn It Up and Open the Window: On the Rebound Effects in Residential Heating

Hediger

Farsi

Weber

2018

Ecological Economics

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This paper investigates how households respond to efficiency improvement of their heating system. Micro-level rebound effects are estimated using a survey with an innovative choice experiment based on the stated preference approach. The experiment design allows to identify the direct and indirect rebound effects as well as their possible trade-offs at the household level. A series of easy discrete choices have been designed to prime respondents and make them think about potential actions impacting their heating service demand. Answers to these discrete choices are moreover used to crossvalidate the quantitative results. Overall, we find relatively low direct rebound effects. However, after considering indirect rebound effects calculated as embodied primary energy, we estimate a total rebound of more than one third. The econometric analysis points to substantial variation across individuals that is only partly explained by observed characteristics. The results are consistent with the conjunction that heating is a basic need that calls for little rebound in high-income groups.

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Section: Determinants Of the Direct Reboundsupporting

confidence: 55%

Turn It Up and Open the Window: On the Rebound Effects in Residential Heating

Hediger

Farsi

Weber

2018

Ecological Economics

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“…Mandell and Wilhelmsson (2011) confirm a generally higher WTP for environmental attributes in Swedish households that perceive themselves as environmentally aware. Aydin et al (2017) analyze the rebound effect (reduction of the initial efficiency gains) in the residential sector and find a rebound effect of around 41% among tenants. The results vary with household wealth and income.…”

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What Drives the Premium for Energy-Efficient Apartments – Green Awareness or Purchasing Power?

Pommeranz¹,

Steininger

2020

J Real Estate Finan Econ

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We analyze whether lower rents for energy-inefficient apartments reflect tenants' willingness to pay due to a higher green awareness, purchasing power, or energy consumption costs. Based on a German rental apartment dataset from Q1 2007 to Q1 2019, we use interaction terms for socioeconomic characteristics in a hedonic regression model. We find that rents are lower for apartments with higher energy consumption, even in neighborhoods with lower levels of green awareness. This relationship is stronger in neighborhoods with higher purchasing power, such that communities with low levels of green awareness and high purchasing power show the steepest negative slope for increasing energy consumption (−8.6% from the highest to lowest rating). Thus, the rent-decreasing effect of purchasing power is higher than that of green awareness. Splitting the entire period into smaller windows, we find that the interaction effect of green awareness has emerged in the most recent years (2017-2019). This may be driven by changes in regulation, which have made it easier for tenants to assess the energy consumption before they rent, or by a general increase in green awareness over this period.

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“…CEC estimated that its residential building codes saved 7,039 gigawatt hours of electricity in 2012, or 7.8 percent of total residential demand. 9 This calculation presumes the building codes are enforced, the savings predicted by engineers are realized, and there is no behavioral response. But there is reason to doubt all three assumptions.…”

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“…Haeri and Stewart (2013) use lagged expenditures on utility energy efficiency programs as the measure of policy and conclude that the $7 billion California utilities spent reduced electricity consumption by 9 CEC (2014, Note: The median California home price in 1980 was $80,000.…”

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How Much Energy Do Building Energy Codes Save? Evidence from California Houses

Levinson

2016

American Economic Review

103

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In 1978 California began enacting some of the world's first and most ambitious residential building energy codes, aiming "to reduce the electricity and gas now used in typical new buildings by at least 80 percent for new buildings constructed after 1990." 1 This ambitious goal was detailed in analyses published by the California Energy Commission (CEC) and widely cited in the press at the time.2 Numerous subsequent revisions to the California codes have projected further savings. The 2008 revisions were designed to reduce electricity used by single-family detached homes for heating, cooling, lighting, and water heating by 23 percent, and the 2013 revisions by another 36 percent.3 Today, some observers claim that the building energy codes are meeting those goals. 4 Calculating the energy savings from building energy codes requires knowing how much energy would have been used in the absence of the codes, a far more 1

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Energy efficiency and household behavior: the rebound effect in the residential sector

Cited by 117 publications

References 55 publications

Turn It Up and Open the Window: On the Rebound Effects in Residential Heating

Turn It Up and Open the Window: On the Rebound Effects in Residential Heating

What Drives the Premium for Energy-Efficient Apartments – Green Awareness or Purchasing Power?

How Much Energy Do Building Energy Codes Save? Evidence from California Houses

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