The Impact of Smart Meters on Residential Water Consumption: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the Canary Islands

doi:10.1016/j.reseneeco.2021.101221

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DOI	10.1016/j.reseneeco.2021.101221
	The Impact of Smart Meters on Residential Water Consumption: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the Canary Islands
	Claudio Daminato, Eugenio Diaz-Farina, Massimo Filippini and Noemi Padrón-Fumero
	2021
出版年	2021
国家	瑞士
领域	资源环境
英文摘要	Smart meters can promote behavioral changes and water conservation by improving information and providing feedback about water consumption to households. In this paper, we evaluate a large-scale programme implemented by the municipal water company of La Laguna (Tenerife). Exploiting quasi-experimental variation brought about program, we estimate the effect of water meter replacement on measured water consumption and the behavioral effect of the installation of the smart metering technology allowing households to access daily water consumption and real-time feedback through an online portal. Our main empirical analysis employs a difference in differences identification strategy and uses annual consumption data from 51,674 households observed over 10 years. We find a positive effect of water meter replacement on measured water consumption. Our main finding is that providing access to the smart metering technology induces households to reduce consumption by around 2% on average. Our results point to consumers’ engagement with the information portal as the main mechanism behind the observed behavioral response.
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来源平台	Centre for Energy Policy and Economics
引用统计	被引频次：12[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/329927
专题	资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Claudio Daminato, Eugenio Diaz-Farina, Massimo Filippini and Noemi Padrón-Fumero. The Impact of Smart Meters on Residential Water Consumption: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the Canary Islands,2021.