Determinants of the Willingness to Energy Monitoring by Residential Consumers: A Case Study in the City of Wroclaw in Poland

This paper analyses attitudinal and socio-economic determinants of the householders’ willingness to monitor their energy consumption. Residential consumers can monitor their energy consumption by means of traditional (electricity bill) and modern tools (smart metering information platforms, SMP). Wi...

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Published in:Energies (Basel) 2019-03, Vol.12 (5), p.907
Main Authors: Kowalska-Pyzalska, Anna, Byrka, Katarzyna
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
Behavior
Case studies
Consumers
Electricity
Emission inventories
Emissions
Energy conservation
Energy consumption
Energy industry
Energy management
energy monitoring
Energy policy
Environmental attitudes
Environmental policy
Feedback
Greenhouse gases
Households
Innovations
Knowledge
Legislation
Monitoring
Residential energy
smart metering
smart metering platform
Social psychology
stage model of self-regulated behavioral change
telephone survey
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Summary:This paper analyses attitudinal and socio-economic determinants of the householders’ willingness to monitor their energy consumption. Residential consumers can monitor their energy consumption by means of traditional (electricity bill) and modern tools (smart metering information platforms, SMP). Within this empirical study we test the effect of environmental attitudes, knowledge and perceived possibilities on consumers’ stages of readiness to adopt SMP based the stage model of self-regulated behavioral change (SSCB). Perceived possibilities to monitor energy consumption on a regular basis was found to be the predictor of adoption in every examined stage of readiness. General knowledge predicted adoption of the stage in which consumers declared willingness to learn know-how of using SMP. The results suggest that an effectiveness of educational campaigns may be restricted to only some consumers.
ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en12050907