Print Email Facebook Twitter Local and national determinants of household energy consumption in the Netherlands Title Local and national determinants of household energy consumption in the Netherlands Author Mashhoodi, B. (TU Delft Environmental Technology and Design; TU Delft OLD Urban Compositions) Stead, D. (TU Delft Spatial Planning and Strategy) van Timmeren, A. (TU Delft Environmental Technology and Design; TU Delft Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions) Department Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions Date 2019 Abstract The policies of Third National Energy Efficiency Action Plan for the Netherlands, regarding the reduction of household energy consumption (HEC), were made based on the unwritten presumption that the stimuli of HEC are similar in each and every location of the Netherlands, and that it therefore is possible to formulate an identical set of incentives and regulations that are optimally suitable in all the locations of the country. The objective of this study is to examine the validity of this presumption by formulating two research questions: what are the national determinants of HEC, i.e. the stimuli that trigger the same response across the whole country? What are the local determinants of HEC, i.e. the stimuli which trigger different responses across the country? To identify local and national determinants of HEC, the impact of nine determinants of HEC in 2 462 neighbourhoods of the Netherlands is assessed by employing the geographical variability test. The results show that two of the determinants are national: (1) the number of frost-days, (2) wind speed. The results indicate that seven of the determinants are local: (1) income, (2) household size, (3) building age, (4) surface-to-volume ratio, (5) population density, (6) number of summer days, and (7) land surface temperature. By employing a semi-parametric geographically weighted regression analysis, the impact of the local and global determinants of HEC is estimated and mapped. Subject Energy policyHousehold energy consumptionMixed geographically weighted regressionNetherlandsSemi-parametric geographically weighted regression To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:21339ed4-0de8-41a7-8785-c21c1492e70b DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-018-09967-9 ISSN 0343-2521 Source GeoJournal, 85 (2020), 393-406 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2019 B. Mashhoodi, D. Stead, A. van Timmeren Files PDF Mashhoodi2019_Article_Loc ... tsOf_1.pdf 1.1 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:21339ed4-0de8-41a7-8785-c21c1492e70b/datastream/OBJ/view