The Adoption of Energy Efficiency Enhancing Technologies

Arbeitspapier

This paper analyses the adoption of energy-efficiency enhancing technologies by heterogeneous firms. The fact that energy use does not only cause external environmental costs through pollution, but also directly affects the profitability of the firm and hence its behaviour on input and output markets is taken for granted. It is demonstrated that the consideration of such market processes may have important implications for the efficiency of environmental policies concerned with energy use. The analysis focuses in particular on the efficiency of the market-led adoption and diffusion process under variouspolicy regimes. It is shown that the promotion of energy-efficiency enhancing technologies might have unexpected effects in that it could lead to an increase in energy use, while the use of energy taxes might actually reduce the attractiveness of energy-saving technologies.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 97-077/3

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Externalities ; Energy: Government Policy ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
• Thema: environmental regulation ; energy ; adoption of technologies ; heterogeneous firms ; externalities ; Technologiewahl ; Energieeinsparung ; Innovationsdiffusion ; Nachhaltige Energieversorgung ; Energiemanagement ; Umweltökonomik ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Verhoef, Erik ; Nijkamp, Peter
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Tinbergen Institute
• (wo): Amsterdam and Rotterdam
• (wann): 1997

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/85757
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ