Renewable enterprises on UK farms: Assessing levels of uptake, motivations and constraints to widespread adoption

Mbzibain, Aurelian; Hocking, T. J.; Tate, Graham; Ali, Shaukat

doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2012.11.028

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“…Although some studies show that some adopters hope to generate economic revenues (sometimes related to the availability of economic policy incentives) (cf. Balcombe et al, 2014;Mbzibain et al, 2013;Palm and Tengvard, 2011;Schelly, 2014), most of them are motivated by the longterm possibilities to reduce their energy bills or avoid other costs (Balcombe et al, 2014;Caird et al, 2008;Fischer, 2008;Mbzibain et al, 2013;Nygrén et al, 2015;Warren, 2010;Vasseur and Kemp, 2015). This is in some cases related to expectations of increasing price levels rather than to current investment profitability.…”

Section: Instrumental Motivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, even when more traditional return on investment motives are in place, the relative profitability of RETs in comparison with other energy sources seems to be less important than the opportunity for diversification they offer. For example, Mbzibain et al (2013) found that many farmers in the West Midland Region of the UK adopted RETs to diversify farm incomes and take advantage of market opportunities and Tate et al (2012) showed that these farmers actually perceived RE production as a better business than their current agricultural business. In such cases, RET investments are, thus, compared with alternative investments in other sectors than energy.…”

Section: Instrumental Motivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Motives to adopt renewable electricity technologies: Evidence from Sweden

Bergek

Mignon

2017

Energy Policy

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The diffusion of renewable electricity technologies (RETs) has to speed up for countries to reach their, often ambitious, targets for renewable energy generation. This requires a large number of actors-including individuals, companies and other organizations-to adopt RETs. Policies will most likely be needed to induce adoption, but there is limited knowledge about what motivates RET adoption. The purpose of this paper is to complement and expand the available empirical evidence regarding motives to adopt RETs through a survey to over 600 RET adopters in Sweden. The main finding of the study is that there are many different motives to adopt RETs and that RET adopters are a heterogeneous group with regard to motives. Although environmental concerns, interest in the technology, access to an RE resource and prospects to generate economic revenues are important motives in general, adopters differ with regard to how large importance they attach to the same motive and each adopter can also have several different motives to adopt. There are also differences in motives between adopter categories (especially independent power producers vs. individuals and diversified companies) and between RETs (especially wind power vs. solar power). This implies that a variety of policy instruments might be needed to induce further adoption of a variety of RETs by a variety of adopter categories.

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Section: Instrumental Motivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Instrumental Motivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Motives to adopt renewable electricity technologies: Evidence from Sweden

Bergek

Mignon

2017

Energy Policy

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“…The socio-demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the participants in the three policy scenarios are summarized in Table 3. 2 We do not rank the participants with regard to their business success and do not pay money to the first ranked farmers as is often done in stock exchange simulation games [52]. Paying the best could lead to risk seeking behavior.…”

Section: Description Of the Samplementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The three randomly drawn winners receive the share of the maximum monetary gain that corresponds to their financial success. 2 The fourth cash prize depends on the decisions in the Holtand-Laury lottery. For the determination of the cash prize, one participant is randomly drawn by a lottery and will have the chance to win between V 10 and V 385 e depending on his risk attitude e in a Holt-and-Laury lottery carried out solely for that participant.…”

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“…This act determines the remuneration for electricity generated from renewable energy sources and aims to realize a 35% and 85% share of renewable energy in total electricity generation by 2020 and by 2050, respectively. Due to the profitability and possible income stabilization, many farmers have invested in renewable energies [2]. In Germany, the number of biogas plants increased between 2002 and 2012 from 1600 to 7515 with a total installed capacity of 3.352 GWh [3].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Policy impact analysis of penalty and reward scenarios to promote flowering cover crops using a business simulation game

Holst

Mußhoff

Doerschner

2014

Biomass and Bioenergy

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JEL classification: C90 Q24 Q28 Keywords: Flowering cover crops Alternative biogas substrate Business simulation game Policy impact analysis Reward policy Penalty policy a b s t r a c t Due to an increasing number of biogas plants and the positive qualities of maize as a biogas substrate, the cultivation of silage maize has risen in Germany. However, there are still various reasons for the limitation of the cultivation area of silage maize. Hence, policymakers arecurrently discussing various alternative biogas substrates and ways to promote their cultivation. One possible alternative is the use of special flowering cover crops with additional ecological benefits. Using a business simulation game conducted with farmers, the present study investigates whether the implementation of a reward and penalty policy will improve the uptake of flowering cover crops in the production programs of farmers. The results indicate that the implementation of these policy measures was followed by a significant increase in the cultivation area of flowering cover crops. The penalty policy leads to a stronger increase in the size of the cultivation area of flowering cover crops than the reward policy, even though the policies have the same income effect for farmers. Furthermore, the results reveal that the cultivation of flowering cover crops is influenced by various socio-demographic variables.

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