NDLI: Levels of consumers’ agency and capacity as predictors for electricity demand reduction in the residential sector

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Author	Parag, Yael Zur, Shai Raz, Nadav
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	A field study of 50 households in a collective community in Israel provides initial support for the hypotheses about the relations between actors’ agency, capacity and electricity demand reduction. ‘Agency’ refers to actors’ willingness and ability to make their own free choices and ‘capacity’ refers to actors’ ability to perform the choices they made. According to the hypotheses, change is more likely to happen when actors’ levels of agency and capacity are high; unlikely to happen when the levels are low and uncertain when there is a mismatch between levels of agency and capacity (one is high and the other low). In the research, levels of agency and capacity regarding 11 energy saving actions were self-reported and electricity consumption was metered before and during energy saving campaign. Findings show that levels of agency were lower than those of capacity for no-cost actions which require high engagement, while levels of capacity were lower than those of agency for high-cost action which require low engagement. In addition, households with high agency and high capacity reduced their electricity consumption by 9.39 % (on average); those with low agency and low capacity increased their consumption by 6.67 %; and those with a mismatch between agency and capacity reduced their consumption by 1.91 %.
Starting Page	597
Ending Page	611
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1570646X
Journal	Energy Efficiency
Volume Number	10
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15706478
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2016-09-06
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Agency and capacity Middle-out framework Electricity demand reduction Residential sector Energy Economics Renewable and Green Energy Environmental Economics Environment Sustainable Development
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Energy

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