TY - GEN
T1 - Impact of information sharing on energy behavior
T2 - 8th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference, SysCon 2014
AU - Khansari, Nasrin
AU - Mostashari, Ali
AU - Mansouri, Mo
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Growth of population and moving towards overconsumption and over pollution are significant threats to the environment and therefore necessitate moving towards sustainability approaches. Reducing energy consumption cannot be achieved by only changing the regulations. In practice, individuals' attitudes highly impact their energy behaviors, and therefore, changing behaviors is essential for improving energy conservation. In this paper, we investigate the impact of information sharing in change of individuals' behaviors and in particular their energy behaviors. We show that with improved access to information on energy consumption, residents make better use of energy, resulting in increased sustainability of the city. We focus on information and feedback strategies to improve the individuals' energy behavior and ultimately to decrease energy consumption. We use a system dynamics model to explore the impact of information technologies on behavioral change of households with regards to energy consumption. The model is created using the literature as a basis for the causal relations between the various variables. We will use our model to quantify the effect of access to energy information on consumption reduction utilizing the data provided by the OPOWER company in 2008 on the energy consumption of households in Sacramento Municipal Utility District in the United States.
AB - Growth of population and moving towards overconsumption and over pollution are significant threats to the environment and therefore necessitate moving towards sustainability approaches. Reducing energy consumption cannot be achieved by only changing the regulations. In practice, individuals' attitudes highly impact their energy behaviors, and therefore, changing behaviors is essential for improving energy conservation. In this paper, we investigate the impact of information sharing in change of individuals' behaviors and in particular their energy behaviors. We show that with improved access to information on energy consumption, residents make better use of energy, resulting in increased sustainability of the city. We focus on information and feedback strategies to improve the individuals' energy behavior and ultimately to decrease energy consumption. We use a system dynamics model to explore the impact of information technologies on behavioral change of households with regards to energy consumption. The model is created using the literature as a basis for the causal relations between the various variables. We will use our model to quantify the effect of access to energy information on consumption reduction utilizing the data provided by the OPOWER company in 2008 on the energy consumption of households in Sacramento Municipal Utility District in the United States.
KW - Behavior Change
KW - Energy Behavior
KW - Information
KW - System Dynamics Model
KW - Technology
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U2 - 10.1109/SysCon.2014.6819266
DO - 10.1109/SysCon.2014.6819266
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84902532086
SN - 9781479920877
T3 - 8th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference, SysCon 2014 - Proceedings
SP - 255
EP - 258
BT - 8th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference, SysCon 2014 - Proceedings
Y2 - 31 March 2014 through 3 April 2014
ER -