气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Consumers or users? The impact of user learning about smart hybrid heat pumps on policy trajectories for heat decarbonisation

CCPortal

DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2020.112006
	Consumers or users? The impact of user learning about smart hybrid heat pumps on policy trajectories for heat decarbonisation
	Parrish B.; Hielscher S.; Foxon T.J.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	03014215
卷号	148
英文摘要	Decarbonisation policies often emphasise the uptake of new end-use technologies, seeing people as consumers of technologies with predictable impacts. In the UK, smart hybrid heat pumps (SHHP) have attracted policy interest as a technology potentially offering multiple benefits for home heat decarbonisation. This paper draws on domestication theory, a perspective that frames people as users who actively learn about technologies, to analyse interviews and observations with installers and users involved in the first UK trial of SHHP. This perspective reveals that users’ learning about SHHPs may erode part of the energy savings they offer and have implications for future technology uptake, including the trajectories of heat decarbonisation currently envisaged by policy makers. However, it also reveals opportunities for policy making to influence user learning, including paying closer attention to material elements such as radiator controls and space to air laundry alongside improved information provision. This could be supported by engaging with users as their learning emerges over time. Overall, the paper highlights the policy relevance of technology use as well as uptake and adds to calls for energy policy to think beyond information provision and economic incentives to engage with households, implying a less deterministic approach to policy making. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
关键词	Domestication Energy policy Heat decarbonisation Smart hybrid heat pumps Users
英文关键词	Decarbonization; Decision making; Energy conservation; Heat pump systems; Heating; Decarbonisation; Deterministic approach; Economic incentive; End-use technologies; Implications for futures; Information provision; Material elements; Technology use; Engineering education; emission control; energy policy; future prospect; heat production; incentive; policy analysis; policy making; technology adoption; 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/205288
作者单位	Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), Business School, University of Sussex, United Kingdom; Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Parrish B.,Hielscher S.,Foxon T.J.. Consumers or users? The impact of user learning about smart hybrid heat pumps on policy trajectories for heat decarbonisation[J],2021,148.
APA	Parrish B.,Hielscher S.,&Foxon T.J..(2021).Consumers or users? The impact of user learning about smart hybrid heat pumps on policy trajectories for heat decarbonisation.Energy Policy,148.
MLA	Parrish B.,et al."Consumers or users? The impact of user learning about smart hybrid heat pumps on policy trajectories for heat decarbonisation".Energy Policy 148(2021).