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Guy ChampnissNov 7, 2017

Energy Efficiency Rebates: now instant, easy and everywhere, thanks to Enervee.

Enervee launches its Instant Rebate API, meaning consumers never need go hunting for rebates again.
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Guy ChampnissNov 3, 2017

Same same, but different…

This year’s European Utility Week was filled with the same chatter of disruption, reinvention and opportunity. But some things were also different.
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Guy ChampnissOct 10, 2017

All the Es: Enervee, Experiments and EEDAL ‘17.

Enervee shares a range of its experimental results at EEDAL ’17 in Irvine, CA., revealing insights into how we as consumers can be engaged in energy ...
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Guy ChampnissAug 18, 2017

When it comes to energy efficient choices, random strangers may be more important than we think.

We know that we as consumers tend to think efficiency costs; that a more efficient washing machine is pricier than a less efficient one. This is ...
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Guy ChampnissJul 10, 2017

The give and take of financial incentives: reframing energy rebates as energy rewards has the potential to unlock consumer behavior.

Exploiting reference point effects from Prospect Theory — through turning product-related efficiency rebates into behavior-related efficiency rewards ...
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Guy ChampnissJul 10, 2017

When our decision-making skills get in a spin

Intuition can sometimes get in the way of making a better decision. In this series of studies, we looked at whether consumers intuitively associate ...
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Guy ChampnissJun 30, 2017

How European Utilities See The (Near) Future

Two days at Europe’s premier energy conference, eurelectric 2017, reveal how utilities are rapidly adjusting — and looking forward- to a new era of ...
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Guy ChampnissJun 2, 2017

Buying Fast and Slow: How the reasons we buy can impact on how we value energy efficiency

When consumers are in a hurry to purchase, energy efficiency as a product attribute becomes less salient than when we’re involved in a planned ...
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Guy ChampnissMay 15, 2017

High drama doesn’t have to mean low efficiency.

Even more emotional, high-involvement purchases for our homes, such as TVs, can be made more energy efficient.
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Guy ChampnissMay 15, 2017

Difficult fonts = easy choices? Using fluency effects to engage consumers in making energy efficient product choices.

Reducing the fluency of key energy saving information on new products and appliances leads consumers to consider this information more carefully and ...
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Guy ChampnissMay 15, 2017

When money’s too tight to mention, let’s talk about energy: low income behaviors toward energy efficient purchases.

Consumers on low incomes engage with novel efficiency information to make more efficient choices, showing lifetime running costs can be made salient ...
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Guy ChampnissMay 15, 2017

When emotions run high, does energy efficiency run low? Using a simple scoring badge to drive more efficient choices in an emotional product category.

Using the Enervee Score to rank TVs in order of their energy efficiency is shown to deliver more energy efficient preferences, within what is ...
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