A survey on household energy consumption behaviour and energy savings potential in Denizli province

Besides population growth and technological development, depleted energy resources will continue to be a problem for humankind who always wishes for the best of everything and for the best quality of everything. Continuous increase in energy consumption in recent years is the reason of increase in researches that has been carried out in this field. As in all other countries It became a necessity for our country to consider developing technology and increasing energy deficit. Residences are the places for households where they spend their time most and consume energy in vast amount. Even if residential energy consumption effects seems to be less when it is compared to the general energy consumption, it is indispensable factor to minimize global energy consumption. Households make use of electric energy in large extents for the activities like warming, lighting, cooling and cleaning. In this study we examined the electricity consumption habits of women that is thought they have the highest decision-making role in the household and we consider some factors such as dwelling type, household number, education, ownership and number of electronic appliances which cause differences. While we propose energy consumption differences of consumers, we did not ignore energy-saving consciousness of all because energy-saving consciousness of consumers will effect the amount of energy usage of the households. The purpose of this study is to deduce to what extend the demographic specifications effect the households' electric energy consumption and also determine habits and the behavior of energy consumption of the households. In this framework we made a statistical fieldwork in the city of Denizli in Turkey. We use face to face survey technique. At the end we analyze the data by using frequency range, reliability analysis, factor, ANOVA and multiple regression techniques.