What's driving energy efficient appliance label awareness and purchase propensity?

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The EU appliance energy consumption labeling scheme is a key component of efforts to increase the diffusion of energy-efficient household appliances. In this paper, the determinants of consumer knowledge of the energy label for house-hold appliances and the choice of class-A energy-efficient appliances are jointly estimated using data from a large survey of more than 20,000 German house-holds. The results for five major appliances suggest that lack of knowledge of the energy label can generate considerable bias in both estimates of rates of uptake of class-A appliances and in estimates of the underlying determinants of choice of class-A appliance. Simulations of the choice to purchase a class-A appliance, given knowledge of the labeling framework, reveal that residence characteristics and, in several cases, regional electricity prices strongly increase the propensity to purchase a class-A appliance, but socio-economic characteristics have surprisingly little impact on appliance energy-class choice.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper Sustainability and Innovation ; No. S1/2009

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: Umweltzeichen ; Energiesparen ; Wahrnehmung ; Konsumentenverhalten ; Informationsverhalten ; Elektrohaushaltsgerät ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Mills, Bradford F. ; Schleich, Joachim
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI
• (wo): Karlsruhe
• (wann): 2009

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/28512
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0011-n-907333
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ