Household transitions to energy efficient lighting

Abstract

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A brighter future? Quantifying the rebound effect in energy efficient lighting

“…Future research is needed to relate rebound effects to socio-economic characteristics, attitudes or social and personal norms (e.g. di Maria et al 2010 or Mills andSchleich 2013) and explain households' heterogeneous responses to the adoption of energy efficient bulbs, such as the negative rebound we find in about a third of the bulb switches in our sample. Future rebound research may better take into account the needs and motives of households' technology choice.…”

System Dynamics Modeling of Households' Electricity Consumption and Cost-Income Ratio: a Case Study of Latvia

“…However, it is also often found, that diffusion of the technological solutions could be rather slow with part of energy savings rebounding back due to increased demand for energy services. This is demonstrated by a ____________________________________________________________________________ 2017 / 20 37 study done in Germany [4], which showed a rather slow adoption of efficient lighting technologies and an up to 47 % increase of the demand for lighting as a result of increased energy efficiency. Recognizing slow adoption of new energy-energy efficient lighting technologies, consumer behavior is considered in techno-economic modeling of energy systems by using the GAMS/TIMES/VEDA platform, and describing the consumers through virtual technologies with attributes similar to tangible technologies [5].…”

Exploring the Role of Servitization to Overcome Barriers for Innovative Energy Efficiency Technologies The Case of Public LED Street Lighting in German Municipalities

“…The above mentioned factors represent key barriers for a range of EUEDs, including lighting (Mills and Schleich, 2014), which this paper seeks to address.…”

“…LED lighting has been analysed at industry level (Sanderson and Simons, 2014;Smink et al, 2013) and household level, focusing specifically on adoption (Mills and Schleich, 2014), while the distinct context of public application has been 7 neglected, although this provides opportunities to combine climate change mitigation with alleviation of budget constraints The specific potential of energy service contracts to accelerate the commercialisation and diffusion of novel EUEDs has been neglected in the literature (Hypko et al, 2010a;Steinberger et al, 2009). …”