Improving energy efficiency is addressed in many ways. Changing consumer behaviour is essential and the IEA’s Demand Side Management Energy Efficiency certainly is doing its best to help the cause. Here we have the Global-Action-Plan explain on the Blue & green tomorrow website that current programmes could be more effective if 80% of them focused … Continue reading Changing behaviour to promote energy efficiency could be more effective according to new analysis
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Taking some leaps forward to ensure consumers benefit from smart energy systems
We seem to be moving in a million directions at once. All of us are excited by new technologies and this is certainly true concerning our energy systems. Increasingly the “smart grid” is coming into being and many of us stare in wonderment what is happening next. Yes, we have the smart grid now and … Continue reading Taking some leaps forward to ensure consumers benefit from smart energy systems
Understanding consumer behaviour when it comes to saving energy
Margaret Walls, from Resources for the Future, discusses in a blog on the Wall Street Journal website about the “energy efficiency gap” and argues that governments should support more experiments “in the field” that bring to light what works and what doesn’t and at what cost. I would assume that Task 24, relating to behaviour, … Continue reading Understanding consumer behaviour when it comes to saving energy
Good summer reading
This article by George Johnson in the New York Times has nothing directly to do with sustainable energy or climate change, but it discuss how subjective feelings are still trusted over scientific expertise. As you get ready for September, you may want to reflect on this. The Widening World of Hand-Picked Truths Nearly half … Continue reading Good summer reading
Our behaviour doesn’t match our beliefs
As negotiators recently left Bonn trying to clinch agreement in advance of the December climate change summit, and as leaders of the G7 countries agreed on a goal to phase out fossil fuels by the end of the century, Oliver Burkeman writes in the Guardian about what we truly are thinking and doing. Do you … Continue reading Our behaviour doesn’t match our beliefs
Getting people to cut back on energy use has often proved pretty tricky
Chris Mooney has written a good article in the Washington Post about a recent study about what consumers think about the energy consumed by the devices they are using. What do you think? Was this discussed at the recent eceee Summer Study? This is why people are so clueless about how much energy they … Continue reading Getting people to cut back on energy use has often proved pretty tricky
Changing consumer behaviour by speaking the language of energy efficiency
EiD is always looking for good articles addressing consumer attitudes and behaviour. In this article, John Hargrove, president and CEO, of the Association of Energy Services Professionals in the US, explains the importance of the write language. Do you have views on this? To speak energy efficiency, you have to know the language Energy … Continue reading Changing consumer behaviour by speaking the language of energy efficiency
No one said the transition would be easy
Many of you will be able to relate to the challenges that individuals address as they try to be part of the sustainable energy future. Julian Critchlow writes a good account in the Financial Times that he went through. As he said, even an ardent enthusiast will struggle to make the technology work. One … Continue reading No one said the transition would be easy
How people interact with buildings impacts on energy use
Understanding consumer behaviour is fundamental if we are going to achieve greater energy savings. Naomi Cole discusses behaviour based energy efficiency in a recent article on the energypriorities website. Behavior Based Energy Efficiency: The Power of People It’s no secret that buildings have the greatest opportunities for energy savings. To date, this fact has … Continue reading How people interact with buildings impacts on energy use
Businesses are engaging in renewable energy
The low-carbon energy transition is seeing many changes in the way we address sustainable energy. While we often think about this in terms of individual consumers, the corporate world is also reacting, as shown in an article by the staff of the ClickGreen website. How renewable energy is changing corporate energy behaviour Tom … Continue reading Businesses are engaging in renewable energy
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