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Rebound effect (conservation)

About: Rebound effect (conservation) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 773 publications have been published within this topic receiving 25741 citations.


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TL;DR: In this article, an interdisciplinary team of economists and anthropologists study the perplexing case of Norwegian households' heat pump ownership and find that, on average, households with and without a heat pump use approximately the same amount of electricity.
Abstract: In this paper, an interdisciplinary team of economists and anthropologists study the perplexing case of Norwegian households’ heat pump ownership. The heat pump is a technology that has the potential to reduce electricity consumption by up to 25% compared to conventional electric heating, but, as we demonstrate in this study, when taken into use it results in little or no change in electricity consumption. To explain this large rebound effect, we use a quantitative economic analysis combined with qualitative interviews attuned towards examining the effect of heat pumps on people’s everyday practices. We find that, on average, households with and without a heat pump use approximately the same amount of electricity. The main sources of rebound identified was higher indoor temperature and heated living space, less firewood and fuel oil use and less use of night-set-backs or reduced temperature while away from the home.

8 citations

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01 Jul 2022
TL;DR: In this article , a systematic review of the energy rebound effect studies is presented, focusing on the main fields of research and identifying the emerging trends of energy rebound effects in the literature.
Abstract: This systematic review scrutinizes the forty-one-year history of the energy rebound effect studies, specifies the main fields of research, and identifies the emerging trends of study. It categorizes all the reviewed studies into two classes, namely microeconomic and macroeconomic and each of them is partitioned into five subsections based on the approach undertaken to analyse or estimate the energy rebound effect. Although many aspects of the microeconomic rebound effect have been clarified, the domain of studies should be broadened, new durables should be studied, and the economic structure of developing countries should be taken into account. At the macroeconomic level, a few empirical studies have been conducted and no comprehensive theoretical foundation is available yet. Enlightening the macroeconomic aspect of the rebound effect, specifying the sources and the methods to analyse and estimate the exact size of the effect can be considered as a baseline for future studies. Using two bibliometric packages helps us to distinguish the most influential publications and authors over the years and shed light on the new streams of study. The study reveals that the number of annual scientific productions exploded after the Kyoto protocol was implemented and the urgency to act was highlighted.

8 citations

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01 Sep 2020
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared various alternatives for the consideration of rebound effect and provided a simulated case study to assess its potential financial impacts and showed that in a worstcase scenario, the impacts on suppliers are considerable, moving these additional costs to the aggregators could significantly diminish or outright suspend their development.
Abstract: After the adoption of the new Electricity Directive, European countries are working towards establishing legal frameworks for independent aggregation of demand response, including the rules related to the transfer of energy process, settlement organization between suppliers, independent aggregators and their respective balance responsible parties, and other important issues. One noteworthy issue is the rebound effect – change in the consumption pattern opposite and shifted in time from the demand response event. The rebound effect can cause significant financial consequences. This paper compares various alternatives for the consideration of rebound effect and provides a simulated case study to assess its potential financial impacts. While, in a worst-case scenario, the impacts on suppliers are considerable, moving these additional costs to the aggregators could significantly diminish or outright suspend their development.

8 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the causality between technological efficiency and decreasing energy intensity is investigated, and the results show that technological efficiency has a strong effect on energy efficiency in reducing energy intensity.
Abstract: Although evidence of technological efficiency effect on decreasing energy intensity is documented in a number of studies, there has been a very few detailed investigations of the causality between ...

8 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relation between the Indian commuters' travel behavior and their support for vehicle fuel efficiency improvement policy towards energy conservation and environment protection and found that the implementation of this policy will modify the commuters behavioral intention leading to a travel behavior of having more car trips and hence longer travels.
Abstract: The present study examines the relation between the Indian commuters’ travel behavior and their support for vehicle fuel efficiency improvement policy towards energy conservation and environment protection. Data was collected through an attitudinal questionnaire survey conducted among selected commuters in south India. The set hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling approach. The data analysis results revealed that the Indian commuters have a supporting attitude for vehicle fuel efficiency improvement policy towards fuel consumption and emission abatements. The modeling results also show that this policy has a positive influence in shaping the travel behavior of the commuters. This in turn shows that the implementation of this policy will modify the commuters behavioral intention leading to a travel behavior of having more car trips and hence longer travels. Besides the awareness over the threats of fuel consumption and emissions, the Indian commuters are interested in having more travel activities with fuel efficient cars. This shows the existence of direct rebound effect in the Indian personal transport sector. This behavior of the commuters can offset the benefits, which are expected out of the fuel efficiency improvement policy and reduced car use, of fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emission abatements in the country.

8 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202320
202268
202166
202061
201967
201860