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192729
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Citizen engagement with Sustainable Energy Solutions (SES) is considered essential for the current energy transition, since decarbonization requires individuals to shift from passive consumers to citizens actively involved with the energy system. However, citizen engagement research has remained peripheral and scattered, particularly in what regards the drivers of engagement behaviors.
To address this challenge, this study examines how different forms of perceived value of SES (utilitarian, social, and environmental) influence different types of citizen engagement behaviors (information seeking, proactive managing, sharing feedback, helping other users, and advocating). To this end, we developed a quantitative study in the context of a H2020 EU project, with a sample of 456 citizens from the city of Alkmaar (the Netherlands).
Our findings show that the utilitarian value of SES has a significant effect on all the engagement behaviors, except for sharing feedback. Social value has a significant influence on the more socially related engagement behaviors, such as sharing feedback, helping other users, and advocating. Finally, environmental value has an indirect effect on information seeking, proactive managing, and advocating, but only when mediated through awareness of consequences. The implications of this study should allow SES providers to design more relevant offerings and policymakers to develop better citizen engagement strategies.
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162300
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This study aims at understanding the perceived value to consumers of practicing electricity saving. Based on an exploratory qualitative investigation and on two quantitative surveys, our study seeks to identify the values of electricity saving and model their relation with the intensity of electricity-saving behaviours. The results point to seven components of positive or negative assessments linked to the practice of electricity saving. These can be described in terms of environmental and citizen aspects, household management, feelings of well-being, secondary benefits, daily efforts, social consequences and lack of knowledge. Our results suggest that the main value lever of electricity-saving for consumers is more closely linked to well-being rather than environmental or money-saving concerns. These findings lead us to formulate new recommendations for public authorities to support their efforts in reducing residential electricity consumption.
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