
256 Engineering Response to Climate Change
demand, exploring energy efciency decision spaces and end users that
are typically responsible for making these decisions. We have also pre-
sented two distinct ways of looking at securing one’s energy needs. First,
the conventional paradigm, which forces the end user to purchase energy
as a commodity and secure appropriate conversion technologies to achieve
the desired service. We have presented examples and discussions of how
this saddles the end user with the burden of a complex decision—that
is, if it even registers for them as a decision point—so that issues such
as risk and unfamiliarity with the ...