Upgrading Efficiency and Behavior: Electricity Savings from Residential Weatherization Programs
Upgrading Efficiency and Behavior: Electricity Savings from Residential Weatherization Programs
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提升效率和行为：住宅防风雨计划节省电力
DOI：
10.5547/01956574.37.4.jziv
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2016
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Kevin Novan
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作者：
J. Zivin;Kevin Novan
住宅防风雨项目已经成为美国能源政策的重要组成部分。通过这些项目，家庭获得了大量的能效升级补贴，以及旨在鼓励节约能源的信息和行为治疗。虽然之前的研究表明，气候改造项目提供了可观的能源节约，但所有研究都测量了效率升级和行为治疗的综合效果。在本文中，我们提出了第一个估计，它解开了每个单独干预措施提供的能源节约。我们的研究结果表明，实际的能源节约所取得的效率升级是大大小于事前，工程预测。此外，我们提供的证据表明，简单的行为干预所节省的能源可以超过成本更高的效率升级所节省的能源。
Residential weatherization programs have become a major component of U.S. energy policy. Through these programs, households receive heavily subsidized energy efficiency upgrades as well as informational and behavioral treatments designed to encourage conservation. While previous work demonstrates that weatherization programs provide sizable energy savings, all have measured the composite effect of efficiency upgrades and behavioral treatments. In this paper, we present the first estimates which disentangle the energy savings provided by each of the individual interventions. Our results reveal that the actual energy savings achieved by the efficiency upgrades are substantially smaller than ex-ante, engineering predictions. Moreover, we present evidence that the energy savings provided by the simple behavioral interventions can exceed the savings resulting from the much more costly efficiency upgrades.