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Effects of feedback on residential electricity demand: Findings from a field trial in Austria

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  • Schleich, Joachim
  • Klobasa, Marian
  • Götz, Sebastian
  • Brunner, Marc

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This paper analyzes the effects of providing feedback on electricity consumption in a field trial involving more than 1,500 households in Linz, Austria. About half of these households received feedback together with information about electricity-saving measures (pilot group), while the remaining households served as a control group. Participation in the pilot group was random, but households were able to choose between two types of feedback: access to a web portal or written feedback by post. Results from cross section OLS regression suggest that feedback provided to the pilot group corresponds with electricity savings of around 4.5 % for the average household. Our results from quantile regressions imply that for house-holds in the 30th to the 70th percentile, feedback on electricity consumption is statistically significant and effects are highest in absolute terms and as a share of electricity consumption. For percentiles below or above this range, feedback ap-pears to have no effect. Finally, controlling for a potential endogeneity bias induced by non random participation in the feedback type groups, we find no difference in the effects of feedback provided via the web portal and by post.

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  • Schleich, Joachim & Klobasa, Marian & Götz, Sebastian & Brunner, Marc, 2012. "Effects of feedback on residential electricity demand: Findings from a field trial in Austria," Working Papers "Sustainability and Innovation" S8/2012, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI).
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:fisisi:s82012
    DOI: 10.24406/publica-fhg-296054
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