Twenty Years of Energy Demand Management: We Know More About Individual Behavior But How Much Do We Really Know About Demand?

摘要

DSM replaced energy conservation in the mid-1980's as the umbrella term for measures intended to change the ways in which energy is consumed. For the majority of the energy community of researchers, policy makers and practitioners, DSM has meant getting efficient technologies out there and into use. Frustrations with DSM programs which had not lived up to expectations in the years after the oil shocks led to the acknowledgment that homes, offices and businesses, were inhabited by people, and if anything were to be accomplished these "end-users" had to be aware that more efficient technologies existed, had to be interested in purchasing them and had to use them as they were intended.