Economic incentives for military housing residents to conserve utilities

The literature reviewed provides strong evidence that individually metering resident utilities provides an estimated 10 to 35 percent utility reductions simply by providing a financial incentive for tenants to conserve utilities. The two key aspects of individual metering are, the financial incentives for tenants to conserve utilities and the ability to hold tenants responsible for consumed utilities through accurate utility meter readings. The five alternatives for the conservation of utilities in military housing proposed by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Installations and Housing) are reevaluated in this thesis. When evaluated from the tenants' perspective, the cost effectiveness prioritization of the five proposed DoD alternatives is reversed. DoD chose building and equipment improvement as the most cost effective way to conserve utilities, but this alternative is only a half measure which ignores economic incentives for the tenants to conserve utilities.

Department dc:contributor.department

Department of Administrative Sciences

Grantor dc:publisher

Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School

Year dc:date.issued

1992

Author dc:creator

• Aasland, Richard Lee

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Terasawa, Katchan
• Gates, William R.

Statement dc:rights

• This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10945/23870

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/23870