Sebastian Gölz

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of providing feedback on electricity consumption in a field trial involving more than 1500 households in Linz, Austria, were analyzed and it was shown that feedback provided to the pilot group corresponds with electricity savings of around 4.5% for the average household.

TL;DR: In this article, the acceptance of the energy transition is not merely determined by technology acceptance, but also by the perception of socio-institutional stakeholders and the perceived perception of fairness.

TL;DR: In this article, a model emphasizing the importance of consumers perceiving the product as being suitable to match their motives relevant to the product domain was introduced, which was tested in the realm of a highly relevant sustainable product: electric vehicles (EVs).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the underlying goals which motivate people to use web-based feedback on their own electricity consumption and identified and replicated four distinct goals towards feedback usage: having fun, learning how to save electricity, controlling and reducing costs, and avoiding inconvenience.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results from a field study on smart metering in Germany and Austria, focusing on the effects of providing feedback information on average electricity consumption, and evaluate the impact of feedback information, econometrically estimated household electricity consumption.