Interventions to encourage behaviour change have the potential to generate significant energy savings in Ireland. To increase the probability of success, the choice and design of these interventions should be informed by the best available evidence. In order to identify the best strategies for activating behaviour-related energy savings in Ireland, the Sustainable Enegy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) performed an extensive analysis of international best practice. This review indicates that incorporating behaviourally informed interventions into the design of future energy policy in Ireland will strengthen Ireland’s ability to transition to a low-carbon economy.
Local Kenyan entrepreneurs are developing profitable energy access businesses, but these investable opportunities are a blind spot for impact investors.
WRI, with support from the DOEN Foundation and Wallace Global Fund, has sought to make these businesses more visible by conducting interviews with both local entrepreneurs and investors, documenting barriers and opportunities for investment and exploring ideas for shifting approaches to investing.
Learn more at https://www.wri.org/events/2019/06/creating-pipeline-local-entrepreneurs
Mobilizes grade school students to jump-start energy efficiency programs in their schools and provides the tools for them to grow and sustain them. At the MIT Global Challenge: http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/teams/view/178
Local Kenyan entrepreneurs are developing profitable energy access businesses, but these investable opportunities are a blind spot for impact investors.
WRI, with support from the DOEN Foundation and Wallace Global Fund, has sought to make these businesses more visible by conducting interviews with both local entrepreneurs and investors, documenting barriers and opportunities for investment and exploring ideas for shifting approaches to investing.
Learn more at https://www.wri.org/events/2019/06/creating-pipeline-local-entrepreneurs
Mobilizes grade school students to jump-start energy efficiency programs in their schools and provides the tools for them to grow and sustain them. At the MIT Global Challenge: http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/teams/view/178
Tennessee Opportunities In Energy Efficiency Market Survey 2013TNenergy
Survey of Tennessee businesses conducted by the Shelton Group as part of the TN Energy Education Initiative in summer 2013. The report provides conclusions drawn from 200+ interviews in regards to challenges and opportunities in energy efficiency.
Module 2.1: How to Create your Environmental Policy and Action Plan - Environ...Julie's Bicycle
Aim: This webinar will take you through the process of creating an environmental policy and action plan in line with the Arts Council’s environmental reporting requirements.
The webinar will include:
- Introduction to the Arts Council’s environmental reporting and Julie’s Bicycle – what is expected of you.
- What is an environmental policy and action plan?
- How can they benefit your organisation?
- Top tips for creating an environmental policy and action plan.
- What help is available?
- Trouble shooting Q&A – your chance to ask the experts about any problems you are having with the environmental reporting process.
Electricity is crucial for providing quality healthcare services. Decentralized renewable technologies will allow much of Africa to leapfrog into a world of clean and uninterrupted electricity supply. This is already happening. Population Services Kenya (PS Kenya) has provided solar power backup solutions to 23 privately-owned clinics within its network, offering financial assistance in the form of loans and business support to accelerate solar system ownership. This innovative model has helped the clinics work with solar power, uninterrupted by grid blackouts.
Learn more and watch the full webinar at https://www.wri.org/events/2019/06/financing-models-electrifying-private-health-clinics
SPLC 2018 Summit: Developing a Sustainable Purchasing Policy for Your Organiz...SPLCouncil
Slides from Formerly Director Sustainability & Responsible Sourcing, Hilton, presented at the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council's 2018 Summit in Minneapolis, MN.
A Practical Guide to Sustainability in MeetingsEIBTM
Tamara Kennedy-Hill from GMIC outlines best practice steps that can be taken to make events more sustainable. These steps can be delivered using the framework APEX/ASTM.
In December 2013, the Jacksonville Public Education Fund released its first Annual Education Perceptions Poll. This is the slide deck used at the press conference. Full poll results and data visualizations are available at www.jaxpef.org.
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Case studies: multi criteria decision analysis of the cooking and buildings s...Centre for Policy Research
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Sustainability in Action as a Sponsor: Coca ColaEIBTM
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Tennessee Opportunities In Energy Efficiency Market Survey 2013TNenergy
Survey of Tennessee businesses conducted by the Shelton Group as part of the TN Energy Education Initiative in summer 2013. The report provides conclusions drawn from 200+ interviews in regards to challenges and opportunities in energy efficiency.
Module 2.1: How to Create your Environmental Policy and Action Plan - Environ...Julie's Bicycle
Aim: This webinar will take you through the process of creating an environmental policy and action plan in line with the Arts Council’s environmental reporting requirements.
The webinar will include:
- Introduction to the Arts Council’s environmental reporting and Julie’s Bicycle – what is expected of you.
- What is an environmental policy and action plan?
- How can they benefit your organisation?
- Top tips for creating an environmental policy and action plan.
- What help is available?
- Trouble shooting Q&A – your chance to ask the experts about any problems you are having with the environmental reporting process.
Electricity is crucial for providing quality healthcare services. Decentralized renewable technologies will allow much of Africa to leapfrog into a world of clean and uninterrupted electricity supply. This is already happening. Population Services Kenya (PS Kenya) has provided solar power backup solutions to 23 privately-owned clinics within its network, offering financial assistance in the form of loans and business support to accelerate solar system ownership. This innovative model has helped the clinics work with solar power, uninterrupted by grid blackouts.
Learn more and watch the full webinar at https://www.wri.org/events/2019/06/financing-models-electrifying-private-health-clinics
SPLC 2018 Summit: Developing a Sustainable Purchasing Policy for Your Organiz...SPLCouncil
Slides from Formerly Director Sustainability & Responsible Sourcing, Hilton, presented at the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council's 2018 Summit in Minneapolis, MN.
A Practical Guide to Sustainability in MeetingsEIBTM
Tamara Kennedy-Hill from GMIC outlines best practice steps that can be taken to make events more sustainable. These steps can be delivered using the framework APEX/ASTM.
In December 2013, the Jacksonville Public Education Fund released its first Annual Education Perceptions Poll. This is the slide deck used at the press conference. Full poll results and data visualizations are available at www.jaxpef.org.
Sustainability In Hospitality Industry - Lemon Tree Hotels Case StudyPramey Zode
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Sustainability in Action as a Sponsor: Coca ColaEIBTM
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The webinar Julie's Bicycle ran on the 24th April 2013 providing specialist advice to Mpms and large multi venue or activity organisations regarding their Arts Council England Environmental Reporting Requirements.
Effective Energy Management - California Savings Summit 2013SchoolDude
You don’t have to spend a ton of capital or energy to save on both utility costs and consumption. This session will offer practical advice on both starting and maintaining an effective energy management plan.
A regulatory framework that that better aligns how utilities earn revenue with customer demands and public policy goals.
Given at National Symposium on Market Transformation on April 21st, 2015.
How to design, implement and evaluate behaviour change interventions in hospi...Leonardo ENERGY
The Carolina Healthcare System (CHS) in the Carolinas is among the leading, and largest healthcare organisations in the U.S., employing 62,000 people in 940 care locations. The system has 7,500 beds and over 12 million patient encounters every year. In its commitment to energy management, efficiency and conservation, the organisation is pursuing strategies to decrease its energy use. One such strategy is implementing programmes that encourage building facilities staff to change their behaviour. The first phase in the CHS behaviour change program, Energy Connect, is an intervention that encourages operators to detect and act on energy inefficiencies within the buildings they are responsible for. Building operators account for a small percentage of people in each building, but have a disproportionally high impact on energy use. Therefore, if they were to change their behaviours, they could dramatically reduce overall energy use. IEA DSM Task 24 and ACEEE’s Behavior and Human Dimensions of Energy Efficiency program helped the Sustainability Director of CHS to co-create a highly collaborative behaviour change field trial.
As commercial energy efficiency programs mature and savings goals increase, utilities must go beyond easy-to-identify measures like lighting and attract hard-to-reach customer segments. How can utilities and program administrators realize deeper energy savings at scale within the Midwest, given these challenges?
Based on actual energy analysis of tens of thousands of real buildings, Retroficiency presented insights about efficiency opportunities that exist across utility portfolios in the commercial sector, and provided specific best-practice strategies utilities and program administrators are employing to address these opportunities.
A new generation of instruments and tools to monitor buildings performanceLeonardo ENERGY
What is the added value of monitoring the flexibility, comfort, and well-being of a building? How can occupants be better informed about the performance of their building? And how to optimize a building's maintenance?
The slides were presented during a webinar and roundtable with a focus on a new generation of instruments and tools to monitor buildings' performance, and their link with the Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) for buildings as introduced in the EU's Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD).
Link to the recordings: https://youtu.be/ZCFhmldvRA0
Addressing the Energy Efficiency First Principle in a National Energy and Cli...Leonardo ENERGY
When designing energy and climate policies, EU Member States have to apply the Energy Efficiency First Principle: priority should be given to measures reducing energy consumption before other decarbonization interventions are adopted. This webinar summarizes elements of the energy and climate policy of Cyprus illustrating how national authorities have addressed this principle so far, and outline challenges towards its much more rigorous implementation that is required in the coming years.
Auctions for energy efficiency and the experience of renewablesLeonardo ENERGY
Auctions are an emerging market-based policy instrument to promote energy efficiency that has started to gain traction in the EU and worldwide. This presentation provides an overview and comparison of several energy efficiency auctions and derives conclusions on the effects of design elements based on auction theory and on experiences of renewable energy auctions. We include examples from energy efficiency auctions in Brazil, Canada, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, and US.
A recording of this presentation can be viewed at:
https://youtu.be/aC0h4cXI9Ug
Energy efficiency first – retrofitting the building stock finalLeonardo ENERGY
Retrofitting the building stock is a challenging undertaking in many respects - including costs. Can it nevertheless qualify as a measure under the Energy Efficiency First principle? Which methods can be applied for the assessment and what are the results in terms of the cost-effectiveness of retrofitting the entire residential building stock? How do the results differ for minimization of energy use, CO2 emissions and costs? And which policy conclusions can be drawn?
This presentation was used during the 18th webinar in the Odyssee-Mure on Energy Efficiency Academy on February 3, 2022.
A link to the recording: https://youtu.be/4pw_9hpA_64
How auction design affects the financing of renewable energy projects Leonardo ENERGY
Recording available at https://youtu.be/lPT1o735kOk
Renewable energy auctions might affect the financing of renewable energy (RE) projects. This webinar presents the results of the AURES II project exploring this topic. It discusses how auction designs ranging from bid bonds to penalties and remuneration schemes impact financing and discusses creating a low-risk auction support framework.
This presentation discusses the contribution of Energy Efficiency Funds to the financing of energy efficiency in Europe. The analysis is based on the MURE database on energy efficiency policies. As an example, the German Energy Efficiency Fund is described in more detail.
This is the 17th webinar in the Odyssee-Mure on Energy Efficiency Academy.
Recordings are available on: https://youtu.be/KIewOQCgQWQ
(see updated version of this presentation:
https://www.slideshare.net/sustenergy/energy-efficiency-funds-in-europe-updated)
The Energy Efficiency First Principle is a key pillar of the European Green Deal. A prerequisite for its widespread application is to secure financing for energy efficiency investments.
This presentation discusses the contribution of Energy Efficiency Funds to the financing of energy efficiency in Europe. The analysis is based on the MURE database on energy efficiency policies. As an example, the German Energy Efficiency Fund is described in more detail.
This is the 17th webinar in the Odyssee-Mure on Energy Efficiency Academy.
Recordings are available on: https://youtu.be/KIewOQCgQWQ
Five actions fit for 55: streamlining energy savings calculationsLeonardo ENERGY
During the first year of the H2020 project streamSAVE, multiple activities were organized to support countries in developing savings estimations under Art.3 and Art.7 of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED).
A fascinating output of the project so far is the “Guidance on Standardized saving methodologies (energy, CO2 and costs)” for a first round of five so-called Priority Actions. This Guidance will assist EU member states in more accurately calculating savings for a set of new energy efficiency actions.
This webinar presents this Guidance and other project findings to the broader community, including industry and markets.
AGENDA
14:00 Introduction to streamSAVE
(Nele Renders, Project Coordinator)
14:10 Views from the EU Commission and the link with Fit-for-55 (Anne-Katherina Weidenbach, DG ENER)
14:20 The streamSAVE guidance and its platform illustrated (Elisabeth Böck, AEA)
14:55 A view from industry: What is the added value of streamSAVE (standardized) methods in frame of the EED (Conor Molloy, AEMS ECOfleet)
14:55 Country experiences: the added value of standardized methods (Elena Allegrini, ENEA, Italy)
The recordings of the webinar can be found on https://youtu.be/eUht10cUK1o
This webinar analyses energy efficiency trends in the EU for the period 2014-2019 and the impact of COVID-19 in 2020 (based on estimates from Enerdata).
The speakers present the overall trend in total energy supply and in final energy consumption, as well as details by sector, alongside macro-economic data. They will explain the main drivers of the variation in energy consumption since 2014 and determine the impact of energy savings.
Speakers:
Laura Sudries, Senior Energy Efficiency Analyst, Enerdata
Bruno Lapillonne, Scientific Director, Enerdata
The recordings of the presentation (webinar) can be viewed at:
https://youtu.be/8RuK5MroTxk
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The report presented in this webinar provides an update of the European Energy Poverty Index, published for the first time in 2019, which shows the combined effect of energy and mobility poverty across Member States. Beyond the regular update of the index, the report provides analysis of the existing EU policy framework related to energy and transport poverty. France is used as a case study given the “yellow vest” movement, which was triggered by the proposed carbon tax on fuels.
Watch the recordings of the webinar:
https://youtu.be/i1Jdd3H05t0
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Speaker:
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The recordings of this webinar can be watched via:
https://youtu.be/TS6PxIvtaKY
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Recordings of the live webinar are on https://youtu.be/VVAdw_CS51A
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1. Changing Energy
Behaviour – What Works?
A review of international precedent
Task 24 – DSMU Webinar by Karl Purcell, SEAI.
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2. Outline
1. Introduction to SEAI’s Behavioural Economics Unit
2. Search Strategy and Focus
3. Encouraging Households to Save Energy – What Works
4. Encouraging Businesses to Save Energy – What Works
5. Changing Transport Behaviour – What Works
6. School-Based Programs – What Do We Know?
7. What’s Missing from the Literature?
8. Recommendations for Future Research
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4. SEAI Behavioural Economics Unit
Behavioural Research
Experimental Design
Psychology/Carbon Mgmt.
Karl Purcell Marek Bohacek Andrew O'Callaghan
Behavioural Problem Diagnosis
Experiment Implementation
Behavioural Science
Data Modelling
Language Programming
Psychology/Neuroscience
Phil Hemmingway
Research and Development
Program Manager
Research Evaluation
6. What is Behavioural Economics?
Behavioural
Economics
Economics
PsychologySociology
“Context Matters”
“Incentives Matter”
“Culture and
Society Matters”
• TOU Pricing
• Payback Period
• Action of Neighbours
• Perception of
Consequences
• Feedback
• Hassle Factors
• Availability Bias
9. We read a lot of papers and reports…
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Database
Search
• 2,423
papers
identified
Abstract
Review
• 695
relevant
papers
Detailed
Review
• 176
papers
included
10. Really…we read a lot of papers and reports…
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Metered
Savings/Observed
Behaviour
Included a control group
over lengthy time period
16. Make it Easy – Defaulting people into savings programs
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Opt-in Opt-out
20%
5.9% 2%
98%
17. Make It Easy - Automating Energy Savings
• Estimated Savings of 4.5%-5% of
annual household gas use
– compared to households with
programmable timers, room
thermostats and TRVs
• Auto-learning algorithm can save
another 2.8%!
• Make it Easy!
19. Make it Social
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It would take a price increase of 70%
to generate the same savings!
20. Make it Social – Set Goals and Public Commitments
• Encourage people to set energy saving goals
• More effective if the goal is publicly visible
– Online list of participants
• More effective if users set realistic goals of about 10-15%
• Goal setting can produce savings of 10%
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24. • Quick Home Energy Check-ups
• 1 Hour Free Check-up
• Offered CFL’s, Aerators, Efficient – flow,
shower heads, Water Tank Heat Wraps
• Save between 2.7% and 5.5% of energy
• Training of auditors also effective
• Phone-based Audits
• “Gaps add up, it’s like having a football
sizes hole in your wall”
• Homes who received call from trained
auditors twice as likely to claim a rebate
(grant)
• No difference in actual energy savings!
How can we prompt more homeowners to take action?
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25. • CBSM approach in North Carolina
• Treatment included the following:
Instant rebates on lightbulbs
In-store signage for a week before one-day event
Flyers placed in customers bags for a week before
event
Promotion at home energy show
Direct mail postcards to homes within 10-mile
radius
Email notifications to utility customers
Sticky notes placed on locally delivered
newspapers
• Results: Sales increased by 896%!
However, no statistically significant difference in
energy use between control and treatment homes
Are community based social marketing approaches more effective?
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26. • Similar to Warmer Homes
• 23,500 robo-calls
• 15,000 door hangers
• 7,000 home-visits
• Sign-up assistance events
• Control group: 1% completed
weatherization rate
• Treatment group: 6% completed
weatherization rate
Encouraging Applications to a Free Weatherization Program
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27. • Adding lifetime costs or 5 year running cost very popular
• Medium effect sizes in lab experiments
• Very small effect sizes in field trials
Hard to implement/measure
More “noise”
• Bonus/Malus and Subsidy systems can have
unintended consequences
Encourage purchase of bigger appliances
• Need more work on CBSM methods and
alternative approaches
• Allcott finds stricter efficiency standards to be
more effective
Limits of Behavioural Science Approach
Encouraging Purchases of More Energy Efficient Appliances
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30. • Control: No contact
• Treatment 1: Weekly emails with actionable
energy tips and inter-floor competition results
• Treatment 2: Weekly emails with actionable
energy tips and inter-floor competition results
and a weekly assigned energy champion for
each floor
• Results:
Treatment 1 floors: 5% reduction in energy
use
Treatment 2 floors: 14% reduction in energy
use
Flooring the Competition…
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32. Eco-driving
• Company employees encouraged to save fuel
– Control: No reward for using less fuel
– T1: Voucher for successfully using less fuel
– T2: Financial reward for using less fuel
• Results:
– No Savings until all driver received eco-driving training
– After receiving training those receiving vouchers reduced their use
by 5%
– Effect dissipated after 6 months
• Similar results found for airline pilots
• A second study found that setting managerial targets and providing
training to employees can reduce fuel use by 7%.
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33. Smarter Travel Towns
• 3 towns in the UK took part in a community based modal shift program
• The program included:
– Personal Travel Planning
– Travel awareness campaigns
– Promotion of walking and cycling
– Public transport marketing
• Results:
– Car journeys decreased 9%
– Bus journeys increased 10-22%
– Cycling journeys increased 26-30%
– Walking increased 10-13%
• Smaller but similar results seen in Ireland
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34. The Effectiveness of School
Based Programs in Changing
Energy Behaviour
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35. • Classroom based education on energy, energy saving
tips, and the environment
Children learn in school Save energy at
home/Encourage parents to save energy
• Very few controlled studies
• Many programs designed with aim of “changing attitudes”
rather than behaviour
• Understudied and underdeveloped
Two Main Strands of Research in this Area
• Saving energy in university accommodation
Often used to test impact of behaviour change
interventions in absence of direct financial incentives to
save energy
• Number of controlled studies
Sample sizes often small
Follow-up periods often short
• Savings of up to 22%
Based on small samples…
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36. Example of Best in Class Evaluation
• Part of a wider Competition styled intervention
called the “10% energy challenge” in Singapore
– Road shows, media events, and sent
households information kits on energy-
saving tips to raise public awareness
• Intervention included:
– energy education and energy saving tips to
schoolchildren.
– Students were encouraged to share these
tips at home with their parents and were
motivated to try to save 10% of their current
energy use with the chance to win prizes
• Energy savings were assessed from students
who brought in energy bills as well as accessing
energy meter data for 6,631 dwellings
• Treatment effect of 1.6% additional energy
savings
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38. Some Comments on Energy Behaviour Research
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Too much emphasis More research needed More research needed
More research needed More research needed Utilise Meter Data and
Counterfactual Impact Evaluation
42. Thank you!
Behavioural Research
Experimental Design
Psychology/Carbon Mgmt.
Email: Andrew.OCallaghan@seai.ie
Karl Purcell Marek Bohacek Andrew O'Callaghan
Behavioural Problem Diagnosis
Experiment Implementation
Behavioural Science
Email: Karl.Purcell@seai.ie
Data Modelling
Language Programming
Psychology/Neuroscience
Email: Mark.Bohacek@seai.ie
Phil Hemmingway
Research and Development
Program Manager
Research Evaluation
Email: Phil.Hemmingway@seai.ie