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Everything, newest firstRenter (Mis)perceptions
The share of U.S. households living in rental homes has grown in recent years—today, renters occupy roughly 36% of U.S. dwellings [1]. Rental homes are, on average, ~15% less energy-efficient than owner-occupied homes …
Technology Forcing with the Enervee Score
Product efficiency has steadily improved thanks to innovation, federal standards, the ENERGY STAR label, and shifting consumer preferences. Below, we share Enervee data showing how the Enervee Score® and industry …
Empowered Consumers. Claimable Savings.
The ComEd Efficient Choice online shopping platform—powered by Enervee and piloted by ComEd’s Emerging Technology team in 2020–2021—proved it can drive claimable energy savings without rebates. An independent evaluation …
Predicting the human response to Eco Financing
How will shoppers respond to Eco Financing? We sat down with behavioral scientist Guy Champniss to explore what the science says about paying for energy-efficient appliances with simple monthly payments at checkout. If …
AEP Ohio Marketplace Delivers Market-Based Energy Savings
The AEP Ohio Marketplace proves that eliminating barriers to private investment in energy-efficient products unlocks significant, cost-effective savings that traditional approaches leave untapped. That’s the key …
Con Edison Marketplace Celebrates 2.8 Million Visits
The Con Edison Marketplace—powered by Enervee—has logged 2.8 million+ visits, helping New Yorkers make smarter energy-related buying decisions. For details on how these results scale across categories with install and …
Nudging Won a Nobel Prize
Hot on the heels of the announcement that Prof. Richard Thaler had been awarded the 2017 Nobel Economics Prize – in recognition of the instrumental role that his empirical findings and theoretical insights played in …
The give and take of financial incentives: reframing energy rebates as energy rewards has the potential to unlock consumer behavior.
In this short conceptual paper, we’d like to argue that changing a single — but important — word in consumer communications around energy efficiency could change the conversation we try to have in persuading households …
Buying Fast and Slow: How the reasons we buy can impact on how we value energy efficiency
At Enervee, we’ve run quite a few experiments now to better understand how and when our unique data-points can influence consumers to buy more energy efficient products. We’ve focused these experiments — in the main — …
Difficult fonts = easy choices? Using fluency effects to engage consumers in making energy efficient product choices.
It makes so much sense. Buying energy efficient products. Lower running costs — thanks to higher efficiency — mean we end up paying less over the lifetime of the product. What’s more, even if the purchase price is a …
When money’s too tight to mention, let’s talk about energy: low income behaviors toward energy efficient purchases.
Last month we shared the results of a study we ran with Enervee Marketplace, to better understand and test the effects of the platform on nudging people toward making more efficient product purchases. The results showed …
When emotions run high, does energy efficiency run low? Using a simple scoring badge to drive more efficient choices in an emotional product category.
Over the last 12 months we’ve run and reported on a series of experiments to identify the effect the Enervee Score has on influencing consumer preferences for more energy efficient products. Using a mock-up of our lead …
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