Energy-Efficient Lighting: Consumers’ Perceptions and Behaviors

Abstract

The aim of the study was to identify consumers' perceptions of energy-efficient lighting in relation to their socio-demographic characteristics and the relationship of these perceptions to their behaviors of environmental lighting. A carefully designed questionnaire was sent to 2,000 randomly selected addresses in the Meridian Township area in Michigan. In total, 326 respondents returned a completed questionnaire, a response rate of 16.3%. The questionnaire included three types of measures: energy-efficient lighting perceptions in general, perceptions of compact fluorescent lamps, and environmental lighting behaviors. Environmental lighting behaviors were measured in energy-efficient lighting usage behaviors and habitual behaviors.The results indicate that there was a significant relationship between consumers' environmental lighting behaviors and lighting perceptions. The consumers who had more positive perceptions towards energy-efficient lighting were more likely to demonstrate the environmental lighting behaviors. The study also revealed some significant differences in consumers' lighting perceptions and behaviors in relation to socio-demographic characteristics. The findings of the study suggest that policy makers and lighting markets should implement new methods of promoting energy-efficient lighting more effectively and prevent generating further lighting misconceptions.

Perceptions and Determinants of Smes Consumers’ Behaviors for Electricity Saving: Evidence From Indonesia

“…Following this, a questionnaire for survey is initially designed to collect data from manufacturing SMEs. It is developed based on the prior studies on users' behaviors in relation to energy consumption in industry and other related works (Park and Lee, 2013;Martinez, 2010), and modifications are done to suit Indonesian environment.…”

“…Besides to fill the gap, the proposed approach can be generally adopted by other areas. Similar case for residential sector is discussed in (Park and Lee, 2013;Akil et al, 2018). Prior studies from several countries which analyzed different issues on SMEs have been published, such as in (Wongsapai et al, 2017) for Thailand, (Kemayel, 2015) for Lebanon, (Chen et al, 2017) for China, (Büyükkeklik et al, 2016) for Turkey, (Amar and Davis, 2015) for Indonesia, (Goto and Wilbur, 2019) for Japan, (Allen and Fullerton, 2019) for USA, (Francisco et al, 2018) for Philippine, and in (Sahoo and Yadav, 2018) for India.…”

“…In (Poznaka et al, 2015), knowing pattern and habits of energy usage is an important aspect in analysing factors affecting electricity demand. For this task, one of the approaches that can This Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License be applied to observe consumer's behavior is regression analysis (Park and Lee, 2013). However, performing a study on this area is not easy as required data are not available in many places.…”

“…The change of consumption volume is affected by technical and users' psychological factors. Reference (Park and Lee, 2013) conducts survey to analyse perception and electricity user's behavior regarding the usage of compact fluorescent lamps at homes in Michigan as energy-efficient lighting. From the study, it is confirmed that lighting perceptions have relationship with users' behaviors.…”

Influences on Consumers' Recycling Intentions of Compact Fluorescent Lamps—Mercury as a Factor

“…Park and Lee (2013) report that while positive perceptions of CFLs relate to higher usage, there were also significant differences in these perceptions and behaviors related to consumers' socio-demographic characteristics. Overall, adoption of CFLs was related to consumers' perceptions of visual comfort, aesthetics, cost, and performance issues such as flickering, slow start-up time, and compatibility with common light fixtures.…”