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A three-dimensional model of residential energy consumer archetypes for local energy policy design in the UK

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posted on 2019-06-17, 12:04 authored by Tao ZhangTao Zhang, Peer-Olaf Siebers, Uwe Aickelin
This paper reviews major studies in three traditional lines of research in residential energy consumption in the UK, i.e., economic/infrastructure, behaviour, and load profiling. Based on the review the paper proposes a three-dimensional model for archetyping residential energy consumers in the UK by considering property energy efficiency levels, the greenness of household behaviour of using energy, and the duration of property daytime occupancy. With the proposed model, eight archetypes of residential energy consumers in the UK have been identified. They are: pioneer greens, follower greens, concerned greens, home stayers, unconscientious wasters, regular wasters, daytime wasters, and disengaged wasters. Using a case study, these archetypes of residential energy consumers demonstrate the robustness of the 3-D model in aiding local energy policy/intervention design in the UK.

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UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), under the Future Energy Decision Making for Cities - Can Complexity Science Rise to the Challenge? project (EPSRC Grant References: EP/G05956X/1 and EP/G059780/1).

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  • Loughborough University London

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Energy Policy

Volume

47

Pages

102 - 110

Citation

ZHANG, T., SIEBERS, P-O. and AICKELIN, U., 2012. A three-dimensional model of residential energy consumer archetypes for local energy policy design in the UK. Energy Policy, 47, pp.102-110.

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© Elsevier

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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2012

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This is an Open Access article. It is published by Elsevier under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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0301-4215

Language

  • en

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