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Nonprice incentives and energy conservation
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Significance: We investigate the effectiveness of nonprice incentives to motivate conservation behavior. We test whether tailored information about environmental and health damages produces behavior change in the residential electricity sector. In a randomized controlled trial with real-time appliance-level energy metering over 8 mo, we find that environment and health-based information strategies outperform monetary savings information to drive energy conservation. Environment and health-based messages, which communicate the environmental and public health externalities of electricity production—such as pounds of pollutants, childhood asthma, and cancer—motivated 8% energy savings versus control. This strategy was particularly effective on families with children, who achieved 19% energy savings. However, we do not study the persistence of these behavioral changes after the conclusion of the study.
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- Asensio, O. I., & Delmas, M. A.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2015-01-12
- Volume
- 112
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- E510-5
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- OpenAlex
- W2097822710
- Cited by
- 422
- References
- 66
- FWCI
- 109.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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