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Residential energy use feedback has been considered an effective form of intervention to promote conservation behavior among households. HEMS (home energy management system) display is a good opportunities for making energy consumption more visible and for engaging individuals in more thoughtful energy use practices. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the long-term effect of residential energy use feedback with HEMS and designed to examine the HEMS browsing behavior and to ensure negative effects that derive from “wear-out”. In total, 463 households responded to a questionnaire survey that had been carried out at July 2013 and January 2014, all the respondent lives in newly built detached house equipped with HEMS and roof-top PV.
Research findings suggest that HEMS browsing behaviors tend to fall into six distinct groups and that the types of browsing behaviors engaged in by households tends to correspond to the level of attitude or intention to energy saving behavior. Also we found that wear-out effects had been occurred to some of the residents and follow-up services after HEMS installed would be important on keeping residents engaged in educated on ways to reduce energy use.
