International audienceAs countries move toward larger shares of renewable electricity, the slow diffusion of activeelectricity load management should concern energy policy makers and users alike. Activeload management can increase capacity factors and thereby reduce the need for new capacity,improve reliability, and lower electricity prices. This paper conceptually and empiricallyexplores barriers to load shift in industry from an end-user perspective. An online survey,based on a taxonomy of barriers developed in the realm of energy efficiency, was carried outamong manufacturing sites in mostly Southern Germany. Findings suggest that the mostimportant barriers are risk of disruption of operations, impact on product quality, anduncertainty about cost savings. Of little concern are access to capital, lack of employee skills,and data security. Statistical tests suggest that companies for which electricity has higherstrategic value rate financial and regulatory risk higher than smaller ones. Companies with acontinuous production process report lower barrier scores than companies using batch or justin-time production. A principal component analysis clusters the barriers and multivariateanalysis with the factor scores confirms the prominence of technical risk as a barrier to loadshift. The results provide guidance for policy making and future empirical studies

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