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High-Energy-efficient products and technologies are important to promote energy saving and CO2 emission reduction. However, it is argued that the popular promotion of these technologies is affected by the behavior of human beings. Based on Behavior Model theory, six questions on energy-efficient technologies are designed to study the influence of human’s behavior on energy-efficient products accepted and policies implemented. A large number of questionnaire surveys were done, the internal and external factors of residents’ behavior are analyzed. The key factors of residents’ approval are found in SPSS software. Comparing to the external factors, the statistical results show that the internal factors of residents’ behavior play an important role for the energy-efficient technologies promotion, especially for the different age, gender, degree groups. So according to the researches, some suggestions are given to encourage people to accept energy-efficient products and related policies.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge our friends and their colleagues who help do the surveys, and they come from JingAn Primary and secondary schools, XiangYang primary school, ShangHai primary school, QiuZhi primary school, ShiJie primary school, ChangEr primary school, HuaJing primary school and so on.
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Li, C., Li, Z., Yao, W., Wang, Y. (2014). The Influence of Human’s Behavior on Energy-Efficient Technologies Promotion in China. In: Li, A., Zhu, Y., Li, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 263. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39578-9_61
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