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- Feb 11, 2025 5:30 pm GMT
Two New Case Studies on Home and Building Energy Label Programs, and Ten Topic Resources for Promoting Energy Conservation Added to the Tools of Change website https://toolsofchange.com/en/topic-resources/transportation/
Case Studies
- HOME ENERGY LABELS IN OREGON is one of the first and best evaluated implementations of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Home Energy ScoreTM. The ultimate goal was for homeowners to implement energy efficiency renovations. During the six months between July and December 2023, 464 participating households carried out home upgrades that saved 840,974 kWh per year, or 1,812 kWh per home per year. They undertook energy efficiency upgrades eleven times as often as non-participating households, and they claimed an upgrade incentive twelve times as often. An increase in consumer knowledge about energy efficiency, provided through assessor interaction and scorecard information, was a leading factor in the increase in upgrades.
- CHICAGO’S BUILDING ENERGY RATING SYSTEM. Chicago was the first U.S. city to require building owners to prominently post a building’s energy performance rating, and to share that that rating with potential buyers and/or renters. While the rating system was being introduced, ComEd and Peoples Gas ran extensive complementary incentive and rebate programs that enabled building owners and managers to make energy improvements at little to no cost. From 2017 to 2020, this program saved 7,293.6 million Btu (2.1 million kwh) per year.
Resources
- AI-Powered Virtual Assistants Nudge Occupants to Save Energy
- Appliance-specific feedback and social comparisons:
- Applying Behavioral Insights to Unlock Residential Demand Flexibility
- Effectiveness of Behavioural Interventions to Reduce Household Energy Demand: a Scoping Review
- Effect of Normative Feedback on Energy Conservation in a Shared Space
- Focusing on Hard-to-Decarbonize Homes
- Interventions Based on Social Comparisons or Financial Incentives Most Effective
- Long-Run Savings and Cost-Effectiveness of Home Energy Report Programs
- Neighbors, Knowledge, and Nuggets: Two Natural Field Experiments on the Role of Norms and Incentives on Energy Conservation
- Utility Energy Efficiency Program Performance from a Climate Change Perspective: a comparison of structural and behavioral programs
Cheers, Jay
Jay Kassirer
General Manager, Tools of Change
Jay Kassirer
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