Abstract
This paper reviews the literature on energy consumption behavior for both domestic and migrated/displaced population and aims to recommend crucial policy measures for creating awareness on the energy efficiency. Consumers’ adoption to the efficient usage of energy varies depending on demographic, behavioral and situational dynamics in their households and societies. The regional or national strategies to implement efficient technologies for the consumer engagement are crucial to change their behaviors. Migrants affect the energy usage patterns in the host country due to their different usage behaviors. Any type of measures for migrated population should include available, acceptable, accessible and affordable energy efficiency applications to engage them with the domestic population.
Highlights
Migration is a phenomenon that has strong effect on economic, social and security aspects touching our daily lives in an era of increasing globalization (IOM, 2018)
In In the literature, most of the studies indicate that the initial scenario, emigrant households main- the higher household income is positively corretain their conventional energy consumption pat- lated with energy efficiency applications for difterns for cooking, but in more Germany and Greece (Dillman et al, 1983; Walsh, efficient manner, while for the lighting energy us- 1989; Sardianou, 2007; Schleich & Mills, 2008). age, households, which are formerly reliant on ker- In other words, it is stated that households with osene and torches, have adopted plain solar lan- high level of income can more replace the terns and diesel generators
The following issues can be concluded from this literature survey on the energy consumer behavior analysis:
Summary
Migration is a phenomenon that has strong effect on economic, social and security aspects touching our daily lives in an era of increasing globalization (IOM, 2018). According to International Energy Agency (IEA), total final energy consumption in the world rises to 9384 million tons oil equivalent (Mtoe), of which 19.8% and 18.5% is natural gas and electricity, respectively. Approximately 30% of the total natural gas and electricity are consumed in the residential buildings (IEA, 2017). Between 2015 and 2040, it is expected that residential natural gas consumption increases by 20%, whereas the electricity consumption will grow by 2% annually due to rapid urbanization, resulting from domestic and international migration (IEA, 2017). For the sustainable energy systems, covering availability, acceptability, accessibility and affordability (IEA, 2011), the effect of migration on energy consumption should be investigated
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