Governmental authorities seem to lack the means to urge residents to energy savings and creating energy consciousness among them. However, in this research a new policy framework is designed named Cap, Fine & Reward seeming to have the potential to create energy consciousness and urge residents to save energy. The policy framework can be characterized as a stringent, long term policy framework, aiming to increase the household energy savings by affecting the residential energy using behaviour. A stated conjoint choice experiment is used to test the acceptability of residents towards this policy framework and to do research to the potential of the system.
The energy sector will change radically in the next years. The implementation of renewable energy sources will be fundamental. The implementation will ask for changes in political, organizational and in financial ways. The oil/gas based energy supply will change to a renewable one. What are the main characteristics of the Netherlands? How are other countries doing? Most of our daily energy use is ending in heat, how are we dealing with heat and what are the prospective for the Netherlands?
This project provides insight into indications of rebound effects on the Dutch housing market. A categorization has been made of behavioral actions and purchases that can indicate direct respectively indirect rebound effects. The results show that it is likely that rebound effects are present among occupants that moved to low energy dwellings. The presence of indirect rebound effects seems to be less evident than direct rebound effects.