Energy saving behaviours of middle class households in Ghana, Peru and the Philippines
Date
2022
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Energy for Sustainable Development
Abstract
Demand-side management of energy seeks to foster energy efficiency investments and curtailment behaviour in
households. The role of environmental concern and knowledge for both types of energy-saving behaviour has
hardly been investigated in middle-income countries with growing middle classes and rising electricity demand.
Drawing on unique household survey data from Ghana, Peru and the Philippines, this paper analyses the links
from individual motivation to behaviour, and from behaviour to the impact on households' total electricity expenditures. We find that consumers with more environmental concern are more likely to adopt curtailment behaviors, but that concern does not influence energy efficiency investments. In turn, higher levels of
environmental knowledge makes households' energy efficiency investments more likely but does not influence curtailment. Neither energy efficiency investments nor curtailment behaviours significantly impact households'
electricity expenditures. Small differences between Ghana, Peru and the Philippines exist
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Research Article
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Energy efficiency, Consumer behaviour, Developing countries