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Casey Canfield, a recent PhD graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s Engineering and Public Policy Department, discusses how we can encourage renters and landlords to use less electricity and how we can fix split incentives. Listen Respond Learn More Energy Use By Apartment Tenants When Landlords Pay For Utilities by Arik Levinson and Scott Niemann Top 10 Tips for Renters! from ENERGY STAR Split Incentives in Residential Energy Consumption from Kenneth Gillingham, Matthew Harding and David Rapson Transcript… Read More

Casey Canfield, a recent PhD graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s Engineering and Public Policy Department, discusses the challenges for low-income families to use less electricity and solutions to the issue. Listen Respond Learn More Energy Burden and the Need for Integrated Low-Income Housing and Energy Policy from Diana Hernández and Stephen Bird “Because You Got to Have Heat”: The Networked Assemblage of Energy Poverty in Eastern North Carolina from Connor Harrison and Jeff Popke Power for the People:… Read More

Casey Canfield, a recent PhD graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s Engineering and Public Policy Department, discusses some of the social, economical, and environmental factors that influence people to power their home with solar energy.

Casey Canfield, a recent PhD graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s Engineering and Public Policy Department, explains what the best way is to communicate electricity consumption on your bill. Listen Respond Learn More Perceptions of electricity-use communications: effects of information, format, and individual differences from the Journal of Risk Research How is electricity used in U.S. homes? from U.S. Energy Information Administration Transcript How should your electricity bill show your electricity consumption? HOST: How should your bill… Read More

Casey Canfield, a recent PhD graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s Engineering and Public Policy Department, explains how smart meters can be hacked. Listen Learn More Electric Meters from the Department of Energy Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System from the National Academies Press Multi-vendor Penetration Testing in the Advanced Metering Infrastructure presented at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference Transcript Can smart meters be hacked? HOST: Are you worried about your smart meter being hacked? On… Read More