Are financial an effective way to help consumers save energy?

  • To save our planet, consumers need to drastically reduce their energy consumption, in particular so in industrialized countries. One possible approach to encourage consumers to do so is to give them a financial incentive. In collaboration with the KIT institute for industrial production (IIP), the goal of the Bachelor thesis is to conduct a meta-analysis across existing studies to find our if and when such incentives are effective in the context of electricity consumption.