Bardsley, N, Buchs, M orcid.org/0000-0001-6304-3196, James, P et al. (6 more authors) (2019) Domestic thermal upgrades, community action and energy saving: a three-year experimental study of prosperous households. Energy Policy, 127. pp. 475-485. ISSN 0301-4215
Abstract
A three-year field experiment was conducted with 185 prosperous households to assess whether behavioural interventions by a community environmental group during and after thermal upgrades (cavity wall and/or loft insulation) can achieve reductions in households’ energy use, including reductions in direct and indirect rebound. The engineering interventions on the thermal efficiency of dwellings appear effective in reducing energy use in both treatment and control groups: a direct rebound effect is estimated to be at most 40 per cent from the engineering interventions. However, across a range of measures of energy use, we observe no significant effect of the community behavioural intervention across the total lifetime of the project. Qualitative data collected on similar community groups suggests substantial constraints on their capacity to realise reductions in energy use amongst households.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Household energy saving; Behaviour change; Field experiment; Rebound; Thermal upgrade; Community group |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 Nov 2018 15:27 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 21:36 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.enpol.2018.11.036 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:138810 |