The adoption of green energy technologies: The role of policies in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland
| Autor: | Michael Peneder, Spyros Arvanitis, Christian Rammer, Tobias Stucki, Martin Woerter |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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020209 energy
02 engineering and technology 7. Clean energy Energy policy Article country comparison 0502 economics and business 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering energy technology energy innovations 050207 economics ta512 energia Public economics Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry firm-level adoption 05 social sciences Environmental resource management Survey research Subsidy Original Articles Renewable energy innovaatiot energiapolitiikka 13. Climate action energiateknologia Energy technology Firm-level adoption Energy innovations Country comparison business |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Green Energy International Journal of Green Energy, 14 (14) |
| ISSN: | 1543-5083 1543-5075 |
| Popis: | We contribute to the existing research about policy-induced technology adoption in several ways. First, we suggest a new survey design to measure the energy-related policy environment. Second, we simultaneously estimate the policy effects for the adoption propensity and the adoption intensity simultaneously and, third, we compare the policy effects in the three countries, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Based on a representative sample of firms for all three countries we find that policies essentially promote the adoption of technologies and they are practically ineffective for the intensity, which poses a great challenge to future policy designs. Voluntary agreements or demand-related factors are among the most important drivers for the adoption propensity of green energy technologies. Given the current institutional framework in the surveyed countries, subsidies are more effective in Austria, taxes are more effective in Germany, and demand-related factors are relatively more effective in Switzerland. ISSN:1543-5075 ISSN:1543-5083 |
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