Promoting household energy conservation

A review of intervention studies aimed at household energy conservation

This article reviews and evaluates the effectiveness of interventions aiming to encourage households to reduce energy consumption. Thirty-eight studies performed within the field of (applied) social and environmental psychology are reviewed, and categorized as involving either antecedent strategies (i.e. commitment, goal setting, information, modeling) or consequence strategies (i.e. feedback, ...

Making Heat Visible: Promoting Energy Conservation Behaviors Through Thermal Imaging.

Householders play a role in energy conservation through the decisions they make about purchases and installations such as insulation, and through their habitual behavior. The present U.K. study investigated the effect of thermal imaging technology on energy conservation, by measuring the behavioral effect after householders viewed images of heat escaping from or cold air entering their homes. I...

Energy Conservation in Building

The building sector accumulates approximately a third of the final energy consumption. Consequently, the improvement of the energy efficiency in buildings has become an essential instrument in the energy policies to ensure the energy supply in the mid to long term moreover is the most cost-effective strategy available for reducing carbon dioxide emissions This paper is studying the main objecti...

New Approaches for Household Energy Conservation; In Search for Personal Household Energy Budgets and Ditto Reduction Options

Introduction During the nineties it was increasingly acknowledged that households and lifestyles are entities relevant to the quest for ways of reducing long-term energy impacts [1]. Since most consumer activities take place within households, a large part of our resource use is performed by these households. Direct (energy for space heating, electricity and gasoline) and indirect (needed for t...

Promoting predators and compassionate conservation.