Individual metering and debiting (IMD) in Sweden: A qualitative long-term follow-up study of householders’ water-use routines

Köhler, Helena

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2017.06.005

Cited by 8 publications

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“…In turn, empirical evidence from the existing literature shows that it is possible for consumers to save resources and money by adopting smart meters (e.g., Darby, 2006;Alahmad et al, 2012;Vassileva et al, 2012;Gans et al, 2013;Davies et al, 2014;Liu et al, 2017;Mogles et al, 2017;Liu, Mukheibir, 2018;Montginoul and Vestier, 2018;Wemyss et al, 2019). The savings realized depend on several factors including the utility monitored (Sønderlund et al, 2016), the duration of monitoring (e.g., Köhler, 2017), as well as sociodemographic and cultural characteristics of the household's members (e. g., Ehrhardt-Martinez et al, 2010;Martinsson et al, 2011). However, several studies have questioned whether consumers experience difficulty in maintaining resource reduction in the long run (Ehrhardt-Martinez et al, 2010;Alahmad et al 2012;Schultz et al, 2015;Liu et al, 2017;Wemyss et al, 2019).…”

Section: Potential Savingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Getting smarter about household energy: the who and what of demand for smart meters

Fettermann

Borriello

Pellegrini

et al. 2020

Building Research & Information

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The development of policies promoting smart meter adoption is essential to guide the transition towards sustainable use of resources such as water, electricity and gas, as well as inform smart-city initiatives. This article explores household preferences in terms of different smart meters and identifies the amounts that households are willing to pay for different smart meter configurations to monitor electricity, water and gas based on the features of their home including dwelling type, size and property value. To this aim, we employ a mixed multinomial logit model that accounts for the heterogeneity in customers' preferences for different smart meters. As a proof of concept, the proposed model is applied to a survey incorporating a discrete choice experiment carried out with 232 respondents in the Florianopolis metropolitan region, located in the south of Brazil.Our approach offers a number of advantages to facilitate the broader implementation of smart grid systems that would otherwise be overlooked using traditional approaches that rely on aggregated estimates for demand and willingness to pay for proposed schemes.

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Section: Potential Savingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Getting smarter about household energy: the who and what of demand for smart meters

Fettermann

Borriello

Pellegrini

et al. 2020

Building Research & Information

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“…[68,71,73] found that the effect of a financial incentive diminishes over time. Also, dynamic pricing seems to have a persistent effect [74] while a one-time price increase does not [37]. In the same vein, strong social norms can lead to a maintained decrease in drinking water consumption per household [63,75], while a weaker social norm message or social comparison does not always lead to a maintained change in behavior [68,75].…”

Section: Maintained Behavioral Changementioning

confidence: 97%

“…The most frequently used determinants of persistent consumption are behavioral control and contextual determinants. Even though the price elasticity of drinking water and energy usage is debated [35][36][37][38], the behavioral control that comes with household income is found to be significantly correlated with higher usage in the long term in several studies [39][40][41][42][43][44][45]. This might also be due to little efficiency behavior by occupying bigger dwellings [43,[45][46][47] and owning and using more energy-using devices [39,45,46,48].…”

Section: Persistent Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

Determinants of Long-Term Water and Energy Conservation Behavior: An Integrated Review

Ambaum,

Corten,

Lambooij

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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Over the last decades, drinking water and energy use have increased exponentially. To preserve ecosystems in the long term, a change in behavior is necessary on all levels of society including on the household level. This paper presents an integrated review of the determinants of long-term drinking water and energy conservation behavior of households. We identified forty-nine relevant studies discussing long-term conservation behavior in the context of drinking water and energy use. Long-term conservation behavior was measured as either persistent behavior, maintaining behavioral change, or intentions to maintain behavior, each with specific determinants. We found four key factors for long-term conservation behavior: consumption feedback, household characteristics, effort, and motives for conservation behavior. For future studies, we suggest follow-up questionnaires or interviews to measure the persistence of behavior and differentiate between curtailment and efficiency behavior. Worthwhile avenues for future research on long-term conservation behavior are household-tailored feedback mechanisms and the interaction between contextual factors and effort-based choices.

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“…The potential for reduced energy use through behavioural change has been estimated at 10-25% [83]. Regarding energy use for domestic hot water, individualisation of metering and billing has shown promising yet varying results [84]; however, it has also been found that low-income households experience significant cost increases from this measure as household size, i.e., the number of residents in the household that use hot water for e.g., showering, tends to be greater among low-income earners [85]. More so, increased time at home due to e.g., unemployment or illness will further increase water use among the worst-off [85].…”

Section: More Energy-efficient Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

Renovating on Unequal Premises: A Normative Framework for a Just Renovation Wave in Swedish Multifamily Housing

et al. 2021

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While the energy transition of the EU housing stock is now being intensified with the launch of the Renovation Wave, economic inequalities are increasing in many OECD countries, which has effects on housing-related inequalities and the demand of affordable housing. The Renovation Wave is thus an opportunity to improve housing quality for low-income households, but also entails risks for increased rents. In Sweden, the standard of housing is relatively high and energy poverty in multifamily housing is rare, meaning that there are limited social benefits to be achieved from extensive energy retrofitting; moreover, Sweden lacks a social housing sector, which limits protection of the worst-off residents. This paper thus explores whether the limited social benefits of the Renovation Wave weigh up against the risks that it entails for the worst-off in the Swedish context. This is done within a normative framework for just energy transitioning that is developed within the context of the Renovation Wave and increasing economic inequalities, consisting of four ordered principles: (1) The equal treatment principle; (2) The priority principle; (3) The efficiency principle; and (4) The principle of procedural fairness. Analysis showed that to be considered just according to our framework, the Swedish energy transition of housing should, in contradistinction to what is suggested in the Renovation Wave, limit the imposition of extensive energy retrofitting in low-income areas. Finally, having identified a mismatch between the most effective approaches in terms of energy savings and the most acceptable approaches in terms of social justice, we offer policy recommendations on how to bridge this mismatch in a Swedish context.

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Individual metering and debiting (IMD) in Sweden: A qualitative long-term follow-up study of householders’ water-use routines

Cited by 8 publications

References 18 publications

Getting smarter about household energy: the who and what of demand for smart meters

Getting smarter about household energy: the who and what of demand for smart meters

Determinants of Long-Term Water and Energy Conservation Behavior: An Integrated Review

Renovating on Unequal Premises: A Normative Framework for a Just Renovation Wave in Swedish Multifamily Housing

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