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

Anna Kowalska-Pyzalska and Katarzyna Byrka
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Katarzyna Byrka: Wrocław Faculty of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Science and Humanities, Ostrowskiego 30b, 53-238 Wrocław, Poland

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 5, 1-20

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: smart metering; smart metering platform; knowledge; energy monitoring; consumers; stage model of self-regulated behavioral change; telephone survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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