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Looking for free-riding: Energy efficiency incentives and Italian homeowners

Alberini, Anna; Bigano, Andrea; Boeri, Marco - 2013

We examine the effect of energy efficiency incentives on household energy-efficiency home improvements. Starting in …

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Free Riding, Upsizing, and Energy Efficiency Incentives in Maryland Homes

Alberini, Anna; Gans, Will; Towe, Charles - 2013

participation information, to study the uptake of energy efficiency incentives and their effect on residential electricity … in our study area—four counties in Maryland—and were covered by federal, state and utility incentives during our study … reduction in electricity usage. Those that do not receive incentives reduce usage by about 16%. Our results appear to be driven …

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Information v. Energy Efficiency Incentives: Evidence from Residential Electricity Consumption in Maryland

Alberini, Anna; Towe, Charles - 2015

We focus on two utility programs intended to reduce energy usage and the associated CO2 emissions - a home energy audit and rebates on the purchase of high-efficiency air-source heat pumps. We use a unique panel dataset from participating and non-participating households to estimate the average...

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Information v. Energy Efficiency Incentives: Evidence from Residential Electricity Consumption in Maryland

Alberini, Anna; Towe, Charles - 2015

We focus on two utility programs intended to reduce energy usage and the associated CO2 emissions—a home energy audit and rebates on the purchase of high-efficiency air-source heat pumps. We use a unique panel dataset from participating and non-participating households to estimate the average...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753272

Boundedly rational consumers, energy and investment literacy, and the display of information on household appliances

Blasch, Julia; Filippini, Massimo; Kumar, Nilkanth - 2016

It is an ongoing debate how to increase the adoption of energy-efficient light bulbs and household appliances in the presence of the so-called ’energy efficiency gap’. One measure to support consumers’ decision-making towards the purchase of more efficient appliances is the display of...

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Information campaigns for residential energy conservation

Andor, Mark Andreas; Gerster, Andreas; Peters, Jörg - 2020

This paper evaluates an intervention that randomized information letters about energy efficient investments and behaviors among 120,000 customers of two utilities in Germany. We find that conservation effects differ considerably between both utilities, ranging from a precisely estimated zero...

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An economic model of oil reserves additions: Application to US data

Farzin, Yeganeh Hossein - 1998

Departing from Hotelling's assumption of fixed and known reserves, in this paper I develop an economic model of additions to proven reserves that explicitly incorporates the effects of expected resource price, cumulative reserves development, and technological progress on reserves additions. The...

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Which Households Respond to Electricity Peak Pricing amid High Levels of Electrification?

Garnache, Cloé; Hernaes, Øystein; Imenes, Anders Gravir - 2022

We examine heterogeneity in Norwegian households' price responses to critical peak pricing (CPP) on electricity consumption, using a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT), high-frequency electricity data, and default enrollment. Increasing the grid transmission charge by 4,067%...

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On Home Energy Reports and Boomerangs: Evidence from Austria

Kaestner, Kathrin; Vance, Colin - 2022

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Releasing the killer from the kitchen? Ventilation and air pollution from biomass cooking

Lenz, Luciane; Bensch, Gunther; Chartier, Ryan; Kane, … - 2022

Household air pollution from biomass cooking is the most significant environmental health risk in the Global South. Interventions to address this risk mostly promote less-polluting stoves and clean fuels, but their diffusion proves difficult. This paper assesses the potentially complementary...

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