Abstract 'Energy sufficiency'involves reducing consumption of energy services in order to
minimise the associated environmental impacts. This may either be through individual …

Buildings play a dominant role in global efforts towards energy consumption reduction,
greenhouse gas (GHG) emission mitigation, as well as global clean energy transition …

The idea of the smart home has been around for decades but smart homes (under most
definitions) are extremely rare, although digital technology and automated appliances are …

A multivariate statistical approach to lifestyle analysis of residential electricity consumption is
described and illustrated. Factor analysis of selected variables from the 2005 US Residential …

Abstract The Paris Climate Agreement defined an ambition of limiting global warming to 1.5°
C above preindustrial levels. This has triggered research on stringent emission reduction …

Despite an emerging consensus that societal energy consumption and related emissions
are not only influenced by technical efficiency but also by lifestyles and socio-cultural factors …

Sufficiency is an indispensable strategy for sustainable development that is gaining growing
attention in both the scientific and the political sphere. Nevertheless, the question of how …

Efforts to achieve an energy transition often neglect to account for the levelling of benefits
realizable with higher levels of energy use, despite knowledge of a saturation effect and …

Transforming today's energy systems in industrialized countries requires a substantial
reduction of the total energy consumption at the individual level. Selected instruments have …

Energy sufficiency is one of the three energy sustainability strategies, next to energy
efficiency and renewable energies. We analyse to what extent European governments …