Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
2022
Department
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Abstract
Energy efficiency improvement is often hindered by the energy efficiency gap. This paper examines the effect of short-run temperature fluctuations on the Energy Star air conditioner purchases in the United States from 2006 to 2019 using transaction-level data. Results show that the probability of purchasing an Energy Star air conditioner increases as the weekly temperature before the transaction deviates from 20–22 °C. A larger response is related to fewer cooling degree days in the previous years, higher electricity prices/income/educational levels/age/rate of owners, more common use of electricity, and stronger concern about climate change. 1 °C increase and decrease from 21 °C would lead to a reduction of total energy expenditure by 35.46 and 17.73 million dollars nationwide (0.13% and 0.06% of the annual total energy expenditure on air conditioning), respectively. Our findings have important policy implications for demand-end interventions to incorporate the potential impact of the ambient physical environment.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Nature Communications
Volume
13
Citation/Publisher Attribution
He, P., Liu, P., Qiu, Y.(. et al. Author Correction: The weather affects air conditioner purchases to fill the energy efficiency gap. Nat Commun 13, 5772 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33531-2
Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33531-2
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Author Correction
Comment
Correction to: Nature Communications, 13, 5772. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33531-2
The original version of this Article omitted an Acknowledgement of a funding source for the research undertaken, namely “this is a Cardiff EARTH CRediT Contribution 3.” This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.
The correction is in the "Additional Files" section of this page.