The role of gender, age, and income in demand-side management acceptance: A literature review

IF 3.2 4区 工程技术 Q3 ENERGY & FUELS
Ida Marie Henriksen, Helena Strömberg, Jennifer Branlat, Lisa Diamond, Giulia Garzon, Declan Kuch, Selin Yilmaz, Lenart Motnikar
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Abstract

Demand-side management (DSM) programs aiming to both reduce and render household consumption more flexible are becoming increasingly essential due to ongoing energy crises and the growing integration of renewable energy into energy production. The active involvement of households and energy users is crucial to fully unlock the potential of DSM programs. As this paper demonstrates, despite more than thirty years of feminist scholarly work focusing on the home as an important site of the production of gender inequality, few of these insights have been taken into account by DSM designers. Additionally, we note a broader pattern concerning gaps in knowledge regarding the diverse perspectives of energy users and their domestic contexts, all of which create obstacles to successful rollout and scalability. This paper uses the concepts of the social license to automate and intersectionality to analyze the existing literature on DSM programs. We find that three primary barriers in household DSM programs have been addressed: 1) there is an unresolved tension between DSM technology being perceived as a masculine domain and the home as a feminine domain; 2) low-income households face challenges in accessing the technology needed to enable both flexibility and savings; and 3) disparities in opportunities for youth and the elderly to participate in DSM programs are insufficiently considered. Based on these findings we argue that user diversity—not only conceived of as separate identity category variables but also as implicating overlapping and possible mutually reinforcing marginalizations– is needed to form a starting point in DSM program design for fair and scalable solutions.

性别、年龄和收入在需求方管理接受度中的作用:文献综述
由于持续的能源危机和可再生能源日益融入能源生产,旨在减少和提高家庭消费灵活性的需求侧管理(DSM)项目变得越来越重要。家庭和能源用户的积极参与对于充分释放DSM项目的潜力至关重要。正如本文所表明的那样,尽管三十多年来女权主义学术工作将家庭作为性别不平等产生的重要场所,但DSM的设计者很少考虑到这些见解。此外,我们注意到一个更广泛的模式,即关于能源用户的不同观点及其国内背景的知识差距,所有这些都为成功推出和可扩展性创造了障碍。本文运用社会许可自动化和交叉性的概念对现有DSM项目文献进行分析。我们发现家庭DSM项目中的三个主要障碍已经得到解决:1)DSM技术被视为男性领域和家庭被视为女性领域之间存在未解决的紧张关系;2)低收入家庭在获得灵活性和储蓄所需的技术方面面临挑战;3)青年和老年人参与DSM项目的机会差异没有得到充分考虑。基于这些发现,我们认为用户多样性——不仅被认为是独立的身份类别变量,而且还隐含重叠和可能相互加强的边缘化——需要形成DSM计划设计的起点,以实现公平和可扩展的解决方案。
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Energy Efficiency
Energy Efficiency ENERGY & FUELS-ENERGY & FUELS
CiteScore
5.80
自引率
6.50%
发文量
59
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: The journal Energy Efficiency covers wide-ranging aspects of energy efficiency in the residential, tertiary, industrial and transport sectors. Coverage includes a number of different topics and disciplines including energy efficiency policies at local, regional, national and international levels; long term impact of energy efficiency; technologies to improve energy efficiency; consumer behavior and the dynamics of consumption; socio-economic impacts of energy efficiency measures; energy efficiency as a virtual utility; transportation issues; building issues; energy management systems and energy services; energy planning and risk assessment; energy efficiency in developing countries and economies in transition; non-energy benefits of energy efficiency and opportunities for policy integration; energy education and training, and emerging technologies. See Aims and Scope for more details.
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