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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112344
	Homeowner low carbon retrofits: Implications for future UK policy
	Bobrova Y.; Papachristos G.; Chiu L.F.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	03014215
卷号	155
英文摘要	The promotion of low-carbon home retrofit among UK homeowners is widely recognised as an important strategy to reduce operational energy use in dwellings and mitigate climate change. The related predominant UK policy approach is to address various market failures and develop the market for low-carbon retrofit and innovation. The current low uptake rate of low-carbon home retrofit suggests that a complementary policy approach is necessary to increase it and support households in their change towards low-carbon living. This paper uses an innovation framework to analyse retrofit as an innovation-decision process of several stages. Low-carbon technology is conceptualised at three nested levels: product, design option and technological system. A multiple-case study approach is used to analyse eight home retrofit cases from the SuperHomes network, that achieved significant carbon emission reductions through retrofit activities. Case analysis shows that: (i) homeowners collect information for each technology level through different communication channels, which are not interchangeable; (ii) homeowners develop a certain capacity to transform their environmental concerns into substantial retrofit activities; (iii) the positive retrofit experience of homeowners is crucial to develop such capacity and to convince others to retrofit their homes. These findings have important implications for energy policy on retrofit uptake in UK to support household transition to low-carbon living. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd
关键词	Decision process Home retrofit Innovation Low-carbon Socio-technical System
英文关键词	Climate change; Commerce; Emission control; Energy utilization; Environmental technology; Product design; Retrofitting; Decision process; Energy use; Home retrofit; Implications for futures; Innovation; Low carbon; Operational energy; Policy approach; Sociotechnical; System; Carbon; carbon emission; decision analysis; emission control; energy market; energy policy; homeownership; innovation; policy approach; United Kingdom
语种	英语
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/205020
作者单位	UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London, Central House, 14-16 Upper Woburn Place, London, WC1H 0NN, United Kingdom; Dept. of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences, TU Eindhoven, Atlas Building 8.409, P.O. Box 513, Eindhoven, MB 5600, Netherlands; UCL Energy Institute, University College London, Central House, 14-16 Upper Woburn Place, London, WC1H 0NN, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Bobrova Y.,Papachristos G.,Chiu L.F.. Homeowner low carbon retrofits: Implications for future UK policy[J],2021,155.
APA	Bobrova Y.,Papachristos G.,&Chiu L.F..(2021).Homeowner low carbon retrofits: Implications for future UK policy.Energy Policy,155.
MLA	Bobrova Y.,et al."Homeowner low carbon retrofits: Implications for future UK policy".Energy Policy 155(2021).