Efficiency Investment and Curtailment Action
Efficiency Investment and Curtailment Action
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DOI：
10.1007/s10640-022-00709-7
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发表时间：
2022-08
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
S. Matsumoto;Hajime Sugeta
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作者：
S. Matsumoto;Hajime Sugeta
家庭的节能活动通常分为效率投资和限电行动，尽管家庭同时使用这两种活动类型，但之前的研究都是分开分析的。在本研究中，我们开发了一个基于家庭生产框架的节能模型，以展示这两项活动之间的关系。我们的家庭生产框架预测家庭会联合而非交替地使用能效投资和限电行动。具体来说，在能源效率方面投入大量资金的家庭会在限电行动上花费更多的时间。我们的实证分析使用来自日本家庭二氧化碳排放调查的微观数据来检验这一预测在现实世界中的有效性。我们比较了超过适当更换期限继续使用旧家电的家庭和在适当更换周期内使用家电的家庭的限电行为强度。我们的实证结果表明，前一类对能效投资不足的家庭比后一类对能效投资充分的家庭参与限电行为的程度要少。因此，实证结果支持了理论预测。
Households’ energy-saving activities are often categorized into efficiency investment and curtailment action, which previous studies have analyzed separately, even though households use both activity types simultaneously. In this study, we develop an energy-saving model based on a household production framework to show how these two activities are related. Our household production framework predicts that a household uses energy efficiency investment and curtailment action jointly and not alternatively. Specifically, a household that invests heavily in energy efficiency spends more time on curtailment action . Our empirical analysis uses micro-level data from the Survey on Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Households in Japan to examine the validity of this prediction in a real-world setting. We compare the intensities of curtailment actions by households that keep using old appliances beyond the appropriate replacement period with those by households that use appliances within an appropriate replacement cycle. Our empirical results reveal that the former households, which do not invest in energy efficiency adequately, are less engaged in curtailment actions than the latter households, which invest in energy efficiency adequately. Therefore, the empirical results support the theoretical prediction.