Unintended outcomes of electricity smart-metering: trading-off consumption and investment behaviour
Unintended outcomes of electricity smart-metering: trading-off consumption and investment behaviour
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电力智能计量的意外结果：消费和投资行为的权衡
DOI：
10.1007/s12053-016-9452-9
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
S. Lyons
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作者：
Daire McCoy;S. Lyons
智能电表使电力公司能够向消费者提供更好的能源使用信息，并采用分时电价。这些措施已被证明可以减少电力消耗并引起需求的时变。对于它们如何影响住宅能效投资行为，我们所知甚少。我们使用了一项随机对照试验的数据，该试验对近2500名爱尔兰消费者进行了为期12个月的抽样调查，以调查智能电表和居民反馈对家庭投资行为的影响。结果表明，暴露于使用时间定价和信息刺激，在减少总体和峰值使用的同时，也会产生意想不到的影响，减少对家庭内能源效率措施的投资。我们的研究结果表明，接受治疗的家庭不太可能采取任何节能措施（平均为23 - 28%），而且这些家庭采用的节能措施比对照组的家庭少（平均为15 - 21%）。这一结果强调了行为干预可能对特定目标以外的行为产生意想不到的后果。此外，它强调了在评估这类实验时检查更广泛的结果和允许更长的时间尺度的重要性。
Smart-metering allows electricity utilities to provide consumers with better information on their energy usage and to apply time-of-use pricing. These measures have been shown to reduce electricity consumption and induce time-shifting of demand. Less is known about how they affect residential energy efficiency investment behaviour. We use data from a randomised-controlled trial on a sample of almost 2500 Irish consumers, conducted over a 12-month period to investigate the effect of smart-metering and residential feedback on household investment behaviour. The results show that exposure to time-of-use pricing and information stimuli, while reducing overall and peak usage, can also have the unintended effect of reducing investment in energy efficiency measures within the home. Our findings indicate that households exposed to treatment were less likely to adopt any energy saving measure (23–28 % on average), and those households adopted less energy saving features than those in the control group (15–21 % on average). This result highlights the potential for behavioural interventions to have unintended consequences on behaviours other than those specifically targeted. Furthermore, it underlines the importance of examining a wider range of outcomes and allowing longer time-scales when evaluating this type of experiment.