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The adoption of green energy technologies: The role of policies in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Woerter, Martin Stucki, Tobias Arvanitis, Spyros Rammer, Christian Peneder, Michael |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Description | 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. |
| Related Links | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6044236/pdf |
| Ending Page | 1208 |
| Page Count | 17 |
| Starting Page | 1192 |
| ISSN | 15435075 |
| e-ISSN | 15435083 |
| DOI | 10.1080/15435075.2017.1381612 |
| Journal | International Journal of Green Energy |
| Issue Number | 14 |
| Volume Number | 14 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2017-09-21 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: International Journal of Green Energy Environmental Studies Energy Policy Energy Technology Firm-level Adoption Energy Innovations Country Comparison |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment |
