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ENERGY EFFICIENCY

Designing effective energy information

Nature Energy volume 7, pages 308–309 (2022)Cite this article

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Understanding the role of different types of energy-related information on consumer purchases is important for the design of effective energy-efficiency policies. Now, a randomised experiment adds energy-cost information to conventional EU energy labels and finds a tension between energy efficiency, price and total energy cost.

Now, writing in Nature Energy, Giovanna d’Adda, Yu Gao and Massimo Tavoni investigate how manipulating information on the EU energy label by adding energy-cost information affects actual purchase decisions in an online store1. The researchers find that providing such additional information leads customers to buy cheaper fridges in lower energy-efficiency classes, but with similar overall energy and total costs.

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  1. Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Center for Energy and the Environment, Winterthur, Switzerland

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  2. ETH, Centre for Energy Policy and Economics, Zurich, Switzerland

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Boogen, N. Designing effective energy information. Nat Energy 7, 308–309 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01010-z

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