Forecasting the adoption of residential ductless heat pumps Academic Article

abstract

• 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V. Energy-efficient technologies have the potential to provide savings to households and utilities, but consumers do not always adopt these innovations over traditional technologies. The ductless heat pump (DHP) is one such technology designed to increase energy efficiency and comfort in space conditioning. DHP adoption by single-family residences in the Pacific Northwest of the United States is investigated by quantifying the effects of utility-provided rebates and expenditures on activities such as advertising and installer training on the number of installations and forecasting installations through 2018. The number of installations is elastic with respect to net installation costs and inelastic with respect to expenditures. Given the proposed rebate budgets, doubling the current rebate is necessary to maximize installations through 2018.

authors

• Dharmasena, Kalu A. Senarath
• Mjelde, James

published proceedings

• ENERGY ECONOMICS

altmetric score

• 3.25

author list (cited authors)

• Hlavinka, A. N., Mjelde, J. W., Dharmasena, S., & Holland, C.

citation count

• 6

complete list of authors

• Hlavinka, Alexander N||Mjelde, James W||Dharmasena, Senarath||Holland, Christine

publication date

• January 2016

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Energy Economics  Journal

keywords

• Adoption Of Innovation
• Ductless Heat Pumps
• Energy Efficiency
• Forecasting
• Rebates
• Stochastic Simulation

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.eneco.2015.11.020

start page

• 60

end page

• 67

volume

• 54

issue

• C

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1016%2Fj.eneco.2015.11.020

user-defined tag

• 7 Affordable and Clean Energy