Influencing household energy practices: a critical review of UK smart metering standards and commercial feedback devices
Influencing household energy practices: a critical review of UK smart metering standards and commercial feedback devices
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DOI：
10.1080/09537325.2014.977245
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发表时间：
2014-11-26
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Webb, Janette
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作者：
Pullinger, Martin;Lovell, Heather;Webb, Janette
目前正在英国家庭安装的智能计量系统支持提供反馈的设备，旨在鼓励行为改变，特别是减少能源需求和能源支出。详细的标准规定了智能电表和反馈设备的最低技术能力。在本文中，我们评估在何种程度上这些标准，使反馈，可能是有效的减少需求。在这一领域的最新研究，借鉴社会实践的理论，表明反馈装置假设和依赖于我们所说的“反思实践”，一种独特的社会实践类型，并反馈关注特定的能源使用的做法，户主可能对需求的影响最大。无论是智能电表标准还是当前的商业设备都没有发现这些最新的研究成果，这可能会大大限制英国智能电表计划实现其国内能源需求减少目标的能力。
The smart metering systems currently being installed in UK households support devices that give feedback aimed at encouraging behaviour changes, specifically to reduce energy demand and spending on energy. Detailed standards specify the minimum technical capabilities of the smart meters and feedback devices. In this paper, we assess the extent to which these standards enable feedback that is likely to be effective in reducing demand. Latest research in this field, drawing on theories of social practice, suggests that feedback devices assume and rely on what we term 'reflection practice', a distinctive type of social practice, and that feedback attentive to the particular energy-using practices of householders is likely to have most influence on demand. Neither the smart meter standards nor current commercial devices are found to incorporate these latest research findings, potentially significantly limiting the ability of the UK smart metering programme to fulfil its domestic energy demand reduction objectives.