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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hueppe, Christian
• Geppert, Jasmin
• Moenninghoff-Juessen, Julia
• Wolff, Lena
• Stamminger, Rainer
• Paul, Andreas
• Elsner, Andreas
• Vrabec, Jadran
• Wagner, Hendrik
• Hoelscher, Heike
• Becker, Wolfgang
• Gries, Ulrich
• Freiberger, Alfred

Titel

Investigating the real life energy consumption of refrigeration appliances in Germany: Are present policies sufficient?

Ist Teil von

• Energy policy, 2021-08, Vol.155, p.112275, Article 112275

Ort / Verlag

Kidlington: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Domestic refrigeration appliances are standard household commodities. Although policies, such as the energy labelling, prompted technical improvements and decreased appliance energy consumption throughout recent decades, important parameters were disregarded. These refer to the efficiency loss over time and the consumer behaviour. The objective of this contribution was to develop a dynamic energy model to determine the power consumption of refrigeration appliances considering degradation factors and behaviour. These were included by model parameters for direct consumer interactions, such as the storage behaviour, door openings and temperature setting, as well as indirect actions, e.g. exposing an appliance to specific temperature conditions at an installation site. For this, an online-survey was conducted to evaluate the consumer behaviour. A total of 706 consumers participated in the national questionnaire, serving as input for the dynamic energy model. It was found that the efficiency loss increases the power consumption by at least 1% annually, leading to an excess of 10% after 10 years of usage. Another important finding was that 32.5% of appliance's power consumption results from consumer behaviour, whereas the promotion of behavioural changes leads to a significant decrease of the consumer-induced consumption. Consequently, this study provides a tool to evaluate the impact of policies targeting refrigeration appliances, stressing that efficiency loss and behaviour should be integrated into future policy approaches. •Real life energy consumption of household refrigeration appliances.•Development of a dynamic energy model.•Efficiency loss increases the energy consumption over time.•Consumer behaviour impacts the energy consumption.•Future policies should incorporate efficiency loss and consumer behaviour.