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Abstract: US households have significant potential for smarter use of electricity, but behavioral changes for more efficient utility use may be hindered by households' lack of information about their appliance-level, disaggregated usage. Earlier studies in household electricity usage have been hindered by technological constraints, and robust findings about the relative effects of various feedback ... read moremethods have remained elusive. Recent innovations provide methods for testing consumer responses to disaggregated electricity usage (DEU) feedback that are both more reliable and potentially scalable to wider populations. Despite the emergence of these new technologies, study design issues persist, and reliable estimates of the absolute and relative effects of various feedback methods remain have not yet been attained. This paper provides an overview of the new opportunities in DEU feedback research, examines findings and limitations of previous work in the field, and proposes a controlled study to evaluate relative usage impacts of electricity feedback treatments.
Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2017.
Submitted to the Dept. of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning.
Advisor: Ann Rappaport.
Committee: Mary Davis.
Keywords: Environmental studies, and Energy.read less
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