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Energy related behaviour change
Dr Heather LovellSchool of GeoSciences
University of Edinburgh2nd Feb 2012
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Introduction
1. What is energy behaviour change?
2. What do people in Scotland think about energy behaviour change?
3. Questions & discussion
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1. What is energy related behaviour change?
• Usual definition: behaviours that reduce energy demand in the home, undertaken by householders
• Broad definition: Behaviours that influence energy demand in the home, undertaken by householders and housebuilders/landlords & utilities
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Both sides of the equationProducers Users
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Social housing sector as leadern/a
10%Other6%
Private8%
Self Build23%
Local Authority
15%
Social Housing
38%
Figure 3 – Initiators of UK low energy housing by tenuresource: Lovell (2005)
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Heat and the City project: sustainable heat and energy conservation
• UK Research Councils - Energy programme funding
• Four year project
• Edinburgh and Strathclyde Universities
• Multidisciplinary team
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What we are doing
• Successful community heating development– UK and European experience
• Case studies Years 2-4– Edinburgh and Glasgow
• Collaborative research approach
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Householder district heating surveys
• Cables Wynd, Leith, Edinburgh – district heating installation in progress (c.200 homes)
• Wyndford Estate, Maryhill, Glasgow – district heating/CHP installed in late 2012 (c.1500 homes)
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2. What do people in Scotland think about energy behaviour change?
• Scottish Environmental Attitudes and Behaviour Survey (2008)
• Face-to-face interviews with c3000 people in late 2008
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Knowledge about Climate Change?
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Main Actions Likely to Ameliorate Climate Change?
• Recycling (45%)
• Avoiding waste (36%)
• Using a more fuel efficient car (32%)
• Taking fewer foreign holidays (12%)
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Interpretation 1
• Kerbside recycling plus information has made an impact
• Public measures, which make change in behaviour practical, convenient and ‘cost free’, work!
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Interpretation 2 - ‘we all do a little’?
• Does the fact that 45% cite recycling as priority mean that people believe they can fix the problem by minor adaptations to lifestyle?
• What level of understanding?
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Interpretation 3 - question assumes individual responsibility?
• Answers based on choice of 13 ‘individual’ actions
• Opportunity to say ‘none of these’ • But not to give an answer which prioritises:
– Collective responsibility
– Or use of government powers of regulation in energy supply, building standards, environment…
– Or major investment in infrastructure: public transport, renewable energy, micro-generation etc
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Environmental problems require societal solutions
• Societies respond differently to environmental damage
• Depending on political, economic and social institutions
• Users & producers
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Any questions?
• Heat and the City Project: Edinburgh & Strathclyde Universities
• http://www.heatandthecity.org.uk/