Full Title: Deloitte Resources 2019 Study Energy management: Balancing climate, cost, and choice
Author(s): Marlene Motyka, Suzanna Sanborn, Stanley E. Porter, Andrew Slaughter, and Scott Smith
Publisher(s): Deloitte Insights
Publication Date: June 10, 2019
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Description (excerpt):
Most businesses and residential consumers surveyed realize the need to address climate change. But while businesses are upping the ante in managing resources, some residential consumers are still held back by cost and complexity.
Business and residential consumers of electricity generally agree on the need to address climate change and reduce their carbon footprints. And both segments are interested in new and evolving technologies and applications to help them manage resources and use cleaner energy sources. But beyond that, the two groups diverge. Residential consumers are circling in a holding pattern, sometimes stymied by costs (time- and budget-related) or by the complexity or lack of options, while businesses are moving resolutely forward, becoming more sophisticated, achieving success, and upping the ante.
These are the themes that emerge from the ninth annual Deloitte Resources 2019 Study, which asked more than 1,500 US residential consumers and 600 US businesses about their attitudes and actions regarding energy and resource management.