Introducing the prebound effect: the gap between performance and actual energy consumption

• Key challenges for Germany’s policy on energy performance upgrades in post-war apartment buildings: an interdisciplinary investigation

  2025 Energy and Buildings article Engineering Building energy efficiency and sustainability Open access

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• How photovoltaics make energy refurbishment more affordable in apartment buildings

  2024 Journal of Climate Finance article Engineering Building energy efficiency and sustainability Open access

  8

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• Rebound-Effekte aus umweltsoziologischer Perspektive

  2024 Springer eBooks book-chapter Energy Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies

  1

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• The economic losses of energy-efficiency renovation of Germany's older dwellings: The size of the problem and the financial challenge it presents

  2023 Energy Policy article Engineering Building energy efficiency and sustainability Open access

  23

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• An under-developed dimension in upgrading energy-inefficient German rental buildings: Corporate social responsibility as a hybrid form of governance

  2023 Energy Research & Social Science article Engineering Building energy efficiency and sustainability Open access

  11

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• Policy pressure to retrofit Germany's residential buildings to higher energy efficiency standards: A cost-effective way to reduce CO2 emissions?

  2023 Building and Environment article Engineering Building energy efficiency and sustainability Open access

  48

  citations
• Do housing rental and sales markets incentivise energy-efficient retrofitting of western Germany’s post-war apartments? Challenges for property owners, tenants, and policymakers

  2023 Energy Efficiency article Economics, Econometrics and Finance Housing Market and Economics Open access

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• Rental and sales price premiums for energy efficiency in Germany's pre-War apartments: Where are the shortfalls and what is society's role in bringing fairness?

  2023 Energy Research & Social Science article Economics, Econometrics and Finance Housing Market and Economics Open access

  16

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• How prebound effects compromise the market premium for energy efficiency in German house sales

  2023 Building Research & Information article Economics, Econometrics and Finance Housing Market and Economics Open access

  19

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• Rebound-Effekte aus umweltsoziologischer Perspektive

  2023 Springer eBooks book-chapter Energy Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies

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• Rebound effect and sustainability science: A review

  2022 Journal of Industrial Ecology article Energy Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies Open access

  107

  citations
• Why German households won’t cover their roofs in photovoltaic panels: And whether policy interventions, rebound effects and heat pumps might change their minds

  2022 Renewable energy focus article Environmental Science Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability Open access

  33

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• Guidelines for low energy building design based on the adaptive thermal comfort concept - Technical report: IEA EBC Annex 69: Strategy and Practice of Adaptive Thermal Comfort in Low Energy Buildings.

  2022 report Engineering Building Energy and Comfort Optimization Open access

  6

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• Rebound and Spillovers: Prosumers in Transition

  2021 Frontiers in Psychology article Environmental Science Environmental Education and Sustainability Open access

  44

  citations
• The Role of Occupants in Buildings’ Energy Performance Gap: Myth or Reality?

  2021 Sustainability article Engineering Building Energy and Comfort Optimization Open access

  135

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• Intermediaries as gatekeepers and their role in retrofit decisions of house owners

  2021 Energy Research & Social Science article Environmental Science Environmental Education and Sustainability

  26

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• Who co-opted our energy efficiency gains? A sociology of macro-level rebound effects and US car makers

  2020 Energy Policy article Energy Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies

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