Household installation of solar panels – Motives and barriers in a 10-year perspective

Palm, Jenny

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2017.10.047

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“…In contrast, some new eco-villages are under development, often with a connection to other movements, such as permaculture, and some solar cooperatives have been started. Individual (home-owner) investment in solar PVs is, however, a competing form of organization, and has increased more rapidly than collective initiatives [55].…”

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Come Together—The Development of Swedish Energy Communities

Magnusson

Palm

2019

Sustainability

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Community energy (CE) and grassroots innovations have been widely studied in recent years, especially in the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands, but very little focus has been placed on Sweden. This paper describes and analyses the development and present state of several types of community energy initiatives in Sweden. The methodology uses interviews, document studies, analysis of previous studies, and website analysis. The results show that fewer initiatives have been taken in Sweden than in other countries, but that even with a rather ‘hostile’ institutional setting CE has emerged as a phenomenon. Wind cooperatives are the most common form of initiative, with solar photovoltaics cooperatives and eco-villages also prominent. The various types of initiatives differ considerably, from well-organized wind cooperatives that have grown into professional organizations to small-scale hydroelectric power plants owned by a rural community. The initiatives may have modest impact on the energy transition in quantitative terms, but they are crucial in knowledge sharing and as inspirations for future initiatives.

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Come Together—The Development of Swedish Energy Communities

Magnusson

Palm

2019

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“…This finding is consistent with the wider literature and the status quo in other countries; Palm and Tengvard [47] reported that Swedish households rejected small-scale photovoltaic panel (PV) and micro wind turbine installation because of financial considerations, Balcombe et al [42] pointed out that British consumers were not willing to pay extra for the environmental benefits that microgeneration technologies offered, Jacksohn et al [98] noted that German household investments in PV and solar thermal systems were mainly driven by economic factors, while Graziano and Gillingham [102] indicated that installation and operation cost were important factors for the installation of PV systems in American (Connecticut) households. Besides, as Palm [103] has noted for the case of PV adoption in Sweden, cost was a barrier persisting over the years, although installation became cheaper due to lower product costs and the application of subsidy schemes.…”

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Factors Affecting Sustainable Market Acceptance of Residential Microgeneration Technologies. A Two Time Period Comparative Analysis

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On a global scale, the residential sector is responsible for a significant part of consumed energy, of which the major part is dependent upon fossil fuels. A solution for the reduction of fossil fuel use is the application of residential microgeneration technologies. The present study examines the market acceptance factors of such systems in Greece, as well as how these factors change over time, based on real decisions made by consumers. In this context, two surveys applying a common questionnaire were performed in 2012 and 2019 in order to examine the effects of (a) socioeconomic, residence, and spatial characteristics, (b) environmental awareness and behavior, and (c) factors related to consumer behavior, attitudes, and system attribute preferences. Factors affecting the installation of a microgeneration system are gender, age, income, residence type, ownership and size, environmental behavior, use of a subsidy program, as well as views on costs and market-related issues. When evaluating the effect of these factors over time, socioeconomic and residence characteristics, as well as environmental behavior, seem to have a fixed effect to the installation of residential microgeneration systems, with market acceptance fluctuations being related mainly to market conditions, including existing subsidy programs, expectations on fuel prices, and legislation.

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“…While several studies consider decision-makers' self-reported financial motives for solar energy system adoption (most recently, see e.g. Michelsen and Madlener, 2016;Palm, 2018), few include investment costs or revenues as such in their empirical adoption models (exceptions are Agrawal et al, 2015;Braito et al, 2017;Rai and Robinson, 2015;Robinson and Rai, 2015;Wasi and Carson, 2013). However, these studies provide evidence that costs and monetary benefits are the decisive drivers of adoption.…”

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Drivers of renewable technology adoption in the household sector

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This series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin. Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. The SOEPpapers are available at AbstractUsing representative household survey panel data from Germany, we undertake a simultaneous assessment of the importance of factors that have individually been found significant for the adoption of renewable energy systems but have never been tested jointly. These are sociodemographic and housing characteristics, environmental concern, personality traits, and economic factors, i.e. the expected costs of and revenue from the investment. Our results suggest that household decisions to invest in photovoltaic systems and solar thermal facilities are mainly driven by the economic factors.Taking account of sociodemographic and housing characteristics, environmental concern or personality traits has comparatively little relevance, while the quantitative nexus between the decision to invest and returns on the investment is robust to their inclusion.

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Household installation of solar panels – Motives and barriers in a 10-year perspective

Cited by 160 publications

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Come Together—The Development of Swedish Energy Communities

Come Together—The Development of Swedish Energy Communities

Factors Affecting Sustainable Market Acceptance of Residential Microgeneration Technologies. A Two Time Period Comparative Analysis

Drivers of renewable technology adoption in the household sector

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