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| What's the ETA for heat pump adoption? Assessing barriers and opportunities with the Energy Technology Adoptability framework | Sarah Outcault, Angela Sanguinetti, Eli Alston-Stepnitz, Emily Searl | Conference Paper | 2024 | Air-source heat pumps (ASHPs) are a keystone technology to electrify and decarbonise buildings. Despite an abundance of programs to promote their adoption, uptake lags behind targeted rates in many regions. Research has highlighted a range of factors that hinder heat pump adoption, but it tends to focus on known barriers such as high initial costs and lack of awareness among potential customers. This paper takes a systematic approach to exploring barriers to heat pump adoption, using the Energy Technology Adoptability (ETA) framework. | Read Paper | mtrp | |
| Leveraging community resources to protect the most vulnerable: A case study on heat mitigation in India’s informal settlements | Outcault, S.M., Searl, E.A., & Gilani, V.M. | Conference Paper | 2024 | There is a great need for technical solutions that deliver comfort in extreme heat. Fair Conditioning works with vulnerable communities in India to co-create solutions to reduce solar heat gain in local buildings. They have developed innovative techniques to cool informal dwellings by deploying a spectrum of passive design techniques. | Read Paper | mtrp | |
| Harnessing non-energy impacts to promote residential heat pump adoption: Examples from the U.S. and beyond | Sarah Outcault, Emily Searl, Cinthia Magaña, and Eli Alston-Stepnitz | Conference Paper | 2024 | As countries strive to decarbonize residential buildings, air-source heat pumps (ASHPs) have emerged as crucial tools in this endeavor. However, challenges persist in promoting widespread adoption, including political resistance, economic barriers, and consumer perceptions. This paper explores the role of non-energy impacts (NEIs) in influencing heat pump adoption and examines how heat pump programs leverage NEIs to encourage uptake. | Read Report | mtrp | |
| Load Flexibility: Keeping Users in the Loop with “Invisible” Technologies | Angela Sanguinetti, Eli Alston-Stepnitz, Sarah Outcault, and Margaret Taylor | Conference Paper | 2024 | This paper focuses on user experience with emerging load flexible (LF) technologies, as demonstrated in residential and commercial building field sites in California. It draws from semi structured interviews with people who interacted with LF technologies or who had energy services affected by these technologies during testing of their responsiveness to electricity price and greenhouse gas signals simulating those expected as California’s grid evolves. | Read Report | mtrp | |
| Stakeholder perspectives on the role of standards in establishing a load flexible ecosystem | Sarah Outcault, Eli Alston-Stepnitz, Margaret Taylor | Conference Paper | 2024 | Technology standards emerge as a key driver with regard to market stimulation, innovation, and widespread adoption of interoperable load-flexible technologies that enable grid interactive energy-efficient buildings. This paper explores the “chicken and egg” issues related to the widespread adoption of load-flexible devices in the face of uncertain technology standards. | Read Report | mtrp | |
| What's the ETA for heat pump adoption? Assessing barriers and opportunities with the Energy Technology Adoptability framework | Conference Paper | 2024 | Air-source heat pumps (ASHPs) are a keystone technology to electrify and decarbonise buildings. Despite an abundance of programs to promote their adoption, uptake lags behind targeted rates in many regions. Research has highlighted a range of factors that hinder heat pump adoption, but it tends to focus on known barriers such as high initial costs and lack of awareness among potential customers. This paper takes a systematic approach to exploring barriers to heat pump adoption, using the Energy Technology Adoptability (ETA) framework. | Read Paper | mtrp | ||
| SLIDE DECK: What's the ETA for heat pump adoption? Assessing barriers and opportunities with the Energy Technology Adoptability framework | Sarah Outcault | Conference Slides | 2024 | Air-source heat pumps (ASHPs) are a keystone technology to electrify and decarbonise buildings. Despite an abundance of programs to promote their adoption, uptake lags behind targeted rates in many regions. Research has highlighted a range of factors that hinder heat pump adoption, but it tends to focus on known barriers such as high initial costs and lack of awareness among potential customers. This paper takes a systematic approach to exploring barriers to heat pump adoption, using the Energy Technology Adoptability (ETA) framework. | View Slides | mtrp | |
| Database of residential heat pump promotion efforts | Sarah Outcault | Database | 2024 | Searchable database of utility, government, and community-led programs and activities to promote residential heat pump adoption by addressing the technology's trialability, observability, complexity of installation, and non-energy benefits. | View Database (Excel file) | mtrp | |
| Innovative Approaches to Residential Heat Pump Promotion | Sarah Outcault, Eli Alston-Stepnitz, Ellian Eorwyn, Cinthia Magana & Emily Searl | Project Report | 2024 | California has identified heat pumps as a keystone technology on its path to decarbonization. To achieve the state’s goal of reaching six million heat pump installations by 2030, however, adoption rates must accelerate substantially. While various rebate programs have been introduced to alleviate the initial cost burden associated with heat pump installation, it is imperative to acknowledge and address critical non-cost barriers that may impede widespread adoption. | Read Report | mtrp | |
| CalFlexHub Stakeholder Needs Assessment - Year 2 | Sarah Outcault, Eli Alston-Stepnitz, Ellian Carone, Sagal Alisalad, and Cinthia Magaña, Margaret Taylor | Project Report | 2023 | The goal of the California Load Flexibility Research and Development Hub (CalFlexHub) is to demonstrate cost-effective and reliable load-flexible and flexibility-enabling technologies that could support a California future in which significant grid incorporation of renewable energy is balanced by electricity demand that is flexible throughout the year's 8,760 hours. One of CalFlexHub's tasks is to use social science methods to gain a better understanding of the broader context of these technologies. This report is the second of three annual CalFlexHub “stakeholder needs assessments” under this task; each will discuss what stakeholders identify priorities, constraints, and needs as they relate to implementing California’s vision for automated load flexibility and dynamic electricity prices. | Read Report | mtrp |
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