# Demand Response Requirements from the Cultural, Social, and Behavioral Perspectives
## 2 Methodologies, Concepts and Theoretical Framework
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**In collaboration with the private sector and local authorities, the government can encourage people (individuals or communities) to save energy and improve consumption patterns by using their own behavioral insights. **  
**The country's specific political conditions and the policy framework determine the form of daily consumption of households. The effectiveness of three policy tools (legislative, economic, and communicative) on residential consumption is also investigated. Consumers become encouraged to use less energy and improve their consumption behaviors if they receive energy**  
**[60]** consumption feedback. Customers were asked to record and submit their electricity meter readings. The results showed that individuals who took part in the trial spent 6% to 7% less energy than those who did not. **  
**A survey is utilized to investigate how procrastination and environmental awareness impact people's heating-energy-saving behaviors. According to the findings, people who have a propensity for procrastination are considerably less likely to engage in most heating energy-saving actions. It was also found that there is a positive relationship between environmental awareness and involvement in daily energy-saving activities, such as reducing the indoor temperature. **  
**This research developed a multidisciplinary framework by combining home data from a population census, activity-based energy demand modeling, and a survey on behavioral intentions to participate in DR and change energy consumption. The findings emphasize the significance of promoting DR to the majority of people, especially those who are underserved, as well as overcoming behavioral and cultural hurdles to DR promotion. **  
**Customers should adjust their demand to lower-cost times and avoid higher-cost periods. The cost reductions in network build-out, smoothing peak demand and reducing the pressure on production at peak periods, benefit all DR stakeholders. They performed a literature analysis to summarize what is known about how small energy users (e.g., households and small- and medium-sized enterprises) may react to time-of-use electricity tariffs and which tools may be available to assist them in doing so. To predict users' behaviors, they used behavioral science theory. **  
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**[43]** Technology adoption level, urbanization, and economic growth are introduced as the most significant factors in total energy consumption modification, respectively. **  
**[44]** The impact of subsidies on household electricity usage is investigated. **  
**Based on a study on the socio-cultural factors on the households' energy consumption behaviors, it turns out that international media, high education, high wealth, marital status, and low normativeness affect the energy consumption behaviors. **  
**[46]** Lifestyle, environmental friendliness, and commitment to frugal activities are sociological characteristics that impact DR programs. **  
**[47]** There are direct links between energy conservation and understanding of saving measures, commitment, and awareness of the repercussions of excessive usages, meaning that as the rates of these factors increase, energy conservation behaviours improve. They performed an extensive study on the social, cultural, and economic factors that influence home energy usage. The findings reveal that people's attention to the environment, their rate of access to facilities, their level of faith in energy system operators, and their chance to obtain trustworthy news sources for understanding energy management programs play an important role in their consumption patterns. **  
**People have often** **objected to the consumption management regulations imposed by power system operators, claiming that the regulations violate their privacy by directly affecting their energy consumption.