1st Edition
The Rebound Effect in Home Heating A guide for policymakers and practitioners
Preface 1. The rebound effect and domestic heating 2. What causes the rebound effect in home heating? 3. The Prebound Effect 4. Methods for estimating the rebound effect in domestic energy consumption 5 Rebound effects in low energy dwellings and passive houses 6. Fuel poverty and the rebound effect 7. Rebound Effects in Non-Residential Buildings 8. Conclusions, insights and recommendations
Biography
Ray Galvin has an interdisciplinary background, including engineering, social science and policy studies. He works with the Engineering and Architecture Departments at the University of Cambridge, UK, and the Business and Economics Faculty at RWTH-Aachen University, Germany. His main research interest in recent years has been energy efficiency upgrades of existing homes, focusing mostly on Germany and the UK, but also on Europe more widely. He has published extensively on economic, social, technical and policy issues with regard to domestic energy consumption. His empirical and theoretical work includes research on the rebound effect in both buildings and transport.
"This book is a must-read for anyone who needs or wants to understand the reasons why home retrofit energy savings are so often disappointing."
—Nicola Terry, Consultant, UK"This is a useful, interesting, short, but complex book. It could be read by anyone interested in exploring the impact of policy on building space conditioning energy use."
—SBSE News, Nigel Isaacs, School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand"Galvin seeks to offer a practical guide for policy-makers and practitioners in understanding how rebound affects home heating. The aim of the book is to offer its audience a deeper understanding of the rebound effect, practical methods for understanding and analysing it, and the implications it might have in both research and policy. This respectfully slim book contains a well-selected set of chapters covering: an introduction to the rebound effect as it applies to domestic heating, a discussion of the causes of rebound effect as under- stood by various disciplines; methods for estimating the effect on home heating energy demand; the relationship between rebound and fuel poverty and also low-energy housing; along with a consideration about how the effect is seen in non-residential buildings. …. This book is a welcome addition to an under-studied issue within the home heating literature."
—Ian Hamilton, University College London
