A roadmap for navigating voluntary and mandated programs for building energy efficiency

Peterman, Andrew; Kourula, Arno; Levitt, Raymond E.

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2012.01.026

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“…So buildings need to see what neighbors are doing in order to clear some of their doubts, and thus, we see a strong spatial correlation. There is empirical evidence showing that networking events have a meaningful impact on the decisions to adopt energy-efficient and renewable energy technologies (Peterman et al 2012;Bollinger and Gillingham 2012). Our result of building decisions not correlated with economic gain is also consistent with existing literatures which find that the slow diffusion of energy efficiency technologies is one of the most significant empirical challenges to the conventional view that rational firms make all investments with a positive net present value, the so-called energy efficiency gap (Jaffe and Stavins 1994).…”

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The diffusion of voluntary green building certification: a spatial approach

2014

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Improvements in overall sustainability include reductions in energy consumption. There remain significant yet largely unexploited opportunities to reduce energy consumption of commercial buildings. The investments required for green certification can help systematically improve the sustainability of the design of buildings. If the percentage of buildings with green certificates increases, sustainability of the overall building sector can be improved. In order to facilitate the diffusion of green commercial buildings, it is important to understand the patterns of the diffusion and the key factors influencing buildings' decisions. Applying a spatial fraction logit model and an instrumental variable approach to data on commercial buildings for New York, Arizona, Colorado, and Florida, this paper demonstrates that there is strong spatial correlation in the diffusion of green building certificates. It also finds that the split-incentive problem between building owners and renters plays a role in the diffusion. The findings have important implications for policy makers. By analyzing the interactions of the green buildings and the characteristics of the green building clusters, the results are useful in the identification of buildings that are more likely to adopt green certificates.

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The diffusion of voluntary green building certification: a spatial approach

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“…Classification of regulatory governance programs and their drivers and barriers (adapted from Peterman et al . ).…”

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Intermediary roles in regulatory programs: Toward a role‐based framework

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Peterman

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Regulation & Governance

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This paper develops a role‐based framework of intermediaries in regulatory programs. In examining the types of roles that organizations adopt in regulation and governance, we argue that roles have important implications for understanding organizational and program level dynamism and outcomes. We use the Regulator–Intermediary–rule‐Taker framework to describe how organizational roles can be adopted through assignment, appropriation, or promotion. We then go deeper into how intermediaries adopt a variety of different roles in key regulatory programs. We examine generic intermediary roles across programs that involve four main groups of activities: creating and/or organizing, coordinating between programs, supporting implementation, and voicing an opinion. All in all, our role‐based framework allows for a novel relational way to understand interorganizational and institutional dynamism in complex, interactive, and ever‐changing regulatory regimes.

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“…) identified the number of potential pathways of urban energy change that involve a reliance on grants and subsidies while Sherriff (2013) has reported on a Delphi study suggesting the prominence of economic concerns and the identification of access to funding as a key barrier to innovation, alongside economic short-termism and doubts about energy prices rising sufficiently to incentivise investment. There is a wide range of references where finance generally is presented as either a barrier to or driver for the success of individual energy projects and energy innovation more broadly (for example, Dyer et al, 2008;Kann, 2009;Mezher et al, 2012;Peterman et al, 2012;Rohdin et al, 2007;Rösch and Kaltschmitt, 1999;Walker, 2008).…”

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The financial entanglements of local energy projects

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a b s t r a c tThere is currently an expansion of local energy initiatives, underpinned by the desire to reduce energyrelated carbon emissions and in recognition of the importance of the local arena to achieving such change. Much of the research on these initiatives has been framed by a conventional economic approach, identifying barriers, drivers and incentives to explain their emergence (or not). Here a new economic sociological approach is taken which sees markets as socio-materially constructed and points to the importance of tracing exchange flows and determining modalities of valuation for such exchanges. Artefacts or market devices are seen to play a particular role in connecting actors and technologies within coordinating institutional arrangements and offer the potential for making innovative projects conventional. These aspects are explored in four international case-studies from Wales, Sweden, Germany and USA, mapping relations, identifying exchange flows, pinpointing how artefacts coordinate and showing the multiple modalities of valuation involved in each case. Conclusions concerning the importance of negotiation against a market backdrop and rendering exchange flows more certain are drawn.

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A roadmap for navigating voluntary and mandated programs for building energy efficiency

Cited by 32 publications

References 28 publications

The diffusion of voluntary green building certification: a spatial approach

The diffusion of voluntary green building certification: a spatial approach

Intermediary roles in regulatory programs: Toward a role‐based framework

The financial entanglements of local energy projects

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