Electricity curtailment behaviors in Greek households: Different behaviors, different predictors

Energy Policy

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages 415-424

  Botetzagias, Iosif ^a   Malesios, Chrisovaladis ^b   Poulou, Dimitra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Energy curtailment; Moral considerations; Theory of planned behavior

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSERVATION; FREE ENERGY; POPULATION STATISTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY;

BINARY LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; ENERGY CURTAILMENT; LOW COSTS; MORAL CONCERNS; MORAL CONSIDERATIONS; PERCEIVED BEHAVIORAL CONTROL; THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR;

LOGISTIC REGRESSION;

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY PLANNING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HOUSEHOLD ENERGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; GREECE;

EID: 84899125771     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2014.03.005     Document Type: Article

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