At the local level Eindhoven Municipality has set its ambition to go energy neutral in housing sector by 2020 and decided to develop new energy neutral housing areas.Lack of strict regulations and appropriate forms of support aimed at relevant stakeholders …
This paper is about the research that has been done to investigate how residents can be urged to save energy. There are two different types of energy-saving behaviours: investment behaviour and curtailment behaviour. There are certain intervention strategies to urge …
This research argues that everyday behavior and lifestyle of occupants, dwelling characteristics, decentralized energy production methods and the sharing of excess produced energy have a significant influence on the energy use of households. Hence they form a serious energy saving potential …
Because the energy costs will increase for housing tenants, and these costs will cover an increasing part of the total income of these tenants in the future, research has been done after the challenge to get the social housing stock …
This paper deals with the topic of the stay away of an energy transition. Investigations are carried out, the environmental discussion is increasing but real substantial actions seem to stay away. Trias-Energetica, an important term in the sustainability sector contains …