Min, Y and Lee, H W (2024) Adoption inequalities and causal relationship between residential electric vehicle chargers and heat pumps. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 150(5): 04024025, ISSN 0733-9364
Abstract
The building sector has implemented code requirements to promote the adoption of all-electric heating systems and electric vehicle (EV)-ready in new construction, aligning with electrification goals. However, existing studies on adoption and equity indicators lack a comprehensive spatiotemporal perspective, impeding the evaluation of trends over time and across communities. To fill these gaps, this study investigates spatiotemporal inequalities and the link between EV charger and heat pump adoption, integrating community characteristics in Seattle using proposed inequality indices and multilevel vector autoregressive models. Key findings include a recent decrease in Gini inequalities for EV charger adoption and a consistent reduction in Gini inequalities for heat pump adoption over time. EV charger adoption demonstrates a stronger association with spatial inequality across tracts. Higher adoption variations over time for both technologies are observed in similar communities. Additionally, communities with higher EV charger adoption exhibit higher heat pump adoption, with only heat pump adoption Granger causing EV charger adoption within a community. Economic factors predict adoption patterns, linking higher income and income inequality to increased EV charger adoption but lower heat pump adoption. The findings suggest tailored strategies in building codes for promoting equitable clean energy technology implementation, considering technology-specific characteristics and spatial dimensions. Recognizing the causal links between technology adoptions is crucial for collaborating with grid operators, particularly in establishing building standards that prevent grid congestion. Aligning codes with clean energy intricacies promotes sustainable construction and urban environment.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | clean energy technology; energy justice; energy transition; granger causality; spatial disparity |
| Index terms: | justice, sustainable construction, strategy, variation, building code, urban environment, clean energy, Seattle, heating system, inequality, income, heat pump, implementation, economic factor, electric vehicle, disparity, dimension, technology adoption |
| Subjects: | urban sustainability, innovation and technology management, energy systems, legal systems, contractual arrangements, economic analysis, health monitoring assessment and metrics, economic concepts, contractual condition, Geography, sustainable construction, management, regulatory law, transportation engineering, sociology, social justice |
| Topics: | Business Strategy, Health and Safety, Research Practice, Geographical Context, Engineering Principles, Procurement, Sustainability, Legal Issues, Urban Studies, Ethics, Contract Administration |
| Descriptive scope: | 2 PC |
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