ABSTRACT The development of policies promoting smart meter adoption is essential to guide the transition towards sustainable use of resources such as water, electricity and gas, as well as inform smart-city initiatives. This article explores household preferences in terms of different smart meters and identifies the amounts that households are willing to pay for different smart meter configurations to monitor electricity, water and gas based on the features of their home including dwelling type, size and property value. To this aim, we employ a mixed multinomial logit model that accounts for the heterogeneity in customers’ preferences for different smart meters. As a proof of concept, the proposed model is applied to a survey incorporating a discrete choice experiment carried out with 232 respondents in the Florianopolis metropolitan region, located in the south of Brazil. Our approach offers a number of advantages to facilitate the broader implementation of smart grid systems that would otherwise be overlooked using traditional approaches that rely on aggregated estimates for demand and willingness to pay for proposed schemes.

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更智能地了解家庭能源：谁以及对智能电表的需求

摘要 制定促进智能电表采用的政策对于指导向可持续利用水、电和气等资源的过渡以及为智慧城市计划提供信息至关重要。本文探讨了家庭对不同智能电表的偏好，并确定了家庭愿意为不同智能电表配置支付的金额，以根据其房屋的特征（包括住宅类型、大小和财产价值）来监控电力、水和天然气。为此，我们采用了一个混合多项 logit 模型，该模型考虑了客户对不同智能电表的偏好的异质性。作为概念证明，所提出的模型被应用于一项调查，该调查包含在弗洛里亚诺波利斯大都市区的 232 名受访者进行的离散选择实验，位于巴西南部。我们的方法提供了许多优势，以促进智能电网系统的更广泛实施，否则这些优势会被传统方法所忽视，这些方法依赖于对拟议计划的需求和支付意愿的汇总估计。