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Due to the increasing effects of global warming, Knapp believes it is important for energy consumers to be informed about the varying types of alternative energy sources. “Arguably one of the largest challenges in society today is the pressing need for deep, deep energy prioritization,” Knapp said. The research, coming from a five-year survey, showed consumer concerns about energy affordability have decreased, and concern regarding energy’s effect on the environment has increased significantly over the past five years. For a little over five years, the Energy Institute has been working in collaboration with researchers at the Institute of Social Research (ISR), the world’s largest academic social science survey and research organization, to create an all-purpose study that looks into the human concern about the environmental impact of energy usage. The two institutes developed energy-related questions to add to the University of Michigan Survey of Consumers, and in the fall of 2013, the Energy Survey was released. The survey has run quarterly for five years, taking place in the fall, winter, spring and summer. Utilizing a random-digit dialing procedure, researchers gathered data from adult men and women respondents from all over the country. Approximately 500 households were asked a series of 18 questions regarding their attitudes toward energy. John DeCicco, a research professor at the Energy Institute and director of the Energy Survey, said the survey really is a “psychology-based survey,” as it studies attitudes more than statistical data. “We ask pretty broad questions about people’s feelings about energy, it’s really about attitudes,” DeCicco said. “We ask how people feel about the cost of energy, or how affordable they feel it is. Then, we ask people about their thoughts on the reliability of energy and about the environmental impact of energy, or how much they think energy impacts the environment.” After five years of data, DeCicco, Knapp and Sarah Mills, senior project manager at the Ford School of Public Policy, began to analyze the array of feedback. Knapp specifically looked into the outpouring of responses in relation to the societal value that Americans place on coastal energy, transportation and nature-based infrastructure systems. Within her findings, she looked into the social costs and benefits derived from the multitude of wind energy developments in the U.S. Knapp then noticed that depending on one’s regional location, their concern toward energy on the environment varied. In a recent investigation done by the Pew Research Center, researchers found those living in coastal areas place greater importance on the problems associated with climate change. The study also found different energy prices and affordability programs might also play a role in this association. DeCicco said the next question in the research would include how these findings will change human behavior. “The next kind of question is does the concern for the environment translate in any way to them acting differently,” DeCicco said. “Is it a general concern where they don’t do anything about it. Or does it motivate them to change their behavior in some way?” One of the behaviors consumers of certain utility companies are adopting is to pay an extra eight cents extra per kilowatt hour on their electric bills to get renewable energy. These include wind power or solar power alternatives provided by local utility companies. To DeCicco’s knowledge, there are no programs like this currently found in the state of Michigan. So far, green pricing programs serve 597 counties across 24 states according to the researchers’ PowerPoint. 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