What encourages local authorities to engage with energy performance contracting for retrofitting? Evidence from German municipalities

Polzin, Friedemann; Flotow, Paschen von; Nolden, Colin

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2016.03.049

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“…The sectors for EPC application are also quite different. In many developed countries, such as USA, Japan, Canada, UK, Finland, and Australia, EPC is mainly adopted for building energy-efficiency retrofits (see: [2,7,[21][22][23][24]). However, in some developing countries, such as China, EPC is primarily applied in coal, iron and steel [4], paper-making [25], and building sectors [26].…”

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“…Aasen et al [29] explored the important factors affecting the EPC and the barriers to energy savings in Norway's municipal sector. Polzin et al [23] empirically studied the EPC barriers in the retrofitting projects in German municipalities.…”

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“…(2) Application of EPC in the residential sector. Previous literatures mostly focused on applying EPC to deal with energy savings in the commerce and public institutions, such as hotel buildings [6,37], hospitals and community clinics [9,35], and the municipal sector [23,29,63,73]. However, with the development of urbanization, there is a pressing need to reduce energy consumption in the residential sector, considering that large-scale residential buildings are responsible for a significant proportion of the total energy usage [74,75].…”

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“…Case study: Case studies form a significant proportion of EPC literature, examine status quo and barriers and propose measures for promoting EPC applications based on a thorough analysis and discussion of realistic EPC cases/projects (e.g., [23,39,44,48,49]).…”

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Promoting Energy Performance Contracting for Achieving Urban Sustainability: What is the Research Trend?

Zhang

Yuan

2019

Energies

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The increasing demand for applying energy performance contracting (EPC) for urban energy conservation has resulted in a significant amount of publications over the past decade. This study tries to identify future research trends in the subject of EPC through analyzing 127 journal papers published from 2008 to 2018. Based on the analysis and discussion of the EPC research, several main research trends were identified. The research results reveal an increasing research interest in EPC over the period. The findings imply that case study is the major research method and descriptive analysis and statistical analysis are primarily used for data analysis. In addition, EPC research in the past decade focused on five major research topics, which are ‘implementation of EPC projects’, ‘EPC mechanism and business models’, ‘decision-making in EPC projects’, ‘Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) in EPC projects’, and ‘risk management in EPC projects’. Based on the five research topics, future research trends and directions in EPC were identified as well. The findings of this study can be informative and valuable for guiding future research in EPC, and are particularly helpful for researchers who are keen to open a new window of investigating EPC issues worldwide.

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2019

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“…These initial studies are limited in two important dimensions. First, they adopt a relatively narrow conceptualization of complexity [1]; where the size of a system and its number of component parts is the principal correlate with complexity. However, with reference to the broader organizational complexity literature (Anderson, 1999;McKelvey, 1999;Levinthal and Warglien, 1999;Cunha and Rego, 2010;Geraldi et al, 2011), it is the "dynamic interactions" between these components that give rise to complexity -an emergent property that cannot be deduced from the properties of the components alone.…”

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Procuring complex performance: implications for exchange governance complexity

Roehrich

Lewis

2014

International Journal of Operations &Amp; Production Management

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -While previous studies explored the argument that allies the notion of complexity to the complex product-service offerings being procured, this paper aims to explore whether there is a corollary with exchange governance complexity. More specifically, the paper analyzes the relationship between systemic complexity and complexity of contractual and relational exchange governance in procuring complex performance (PCP) arrangements. Design/methodology/approach -A multiple, longitudinal case study method is used to examine the relationship between systemic complexity and exchange governance complexity. The study deploys rich data sets by combining government and company reports with 43 semi-structured interviews.Findings -Preliminary conclusions suggest that as a response to increasing systemic complexity, organizations respond with increasing contractual governance complexity. However, better performing PCP arrangements illustrate that the use of simplified contractual governance in form of working agreements in combination with relational governance such as inter-personal relationships may be more effective to counteract complexity. Practical implications -The paper questions whether organizations should respond with increasing exchange governance complexity to counteract systemic complexity. Managers must consider the manageability and enforceability of complex contracts in combination with the formation of inter-personal relationships and simplified working agreements. Originality/value -This study adds to the limited empirical understanding on the nature of long-term public-private interactions in PCP. It also contributes through a rare focus on the relationship between systemic complexity and exchange governance complexity in PCP arrangements.

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What encourages local authorities to engage with energy performance contracting for retrofitting? Evidence from German municipalities

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Promoting Energy Performance Contracting for Achieving Urban Sustainability: What is the Research Trend?

Promoting Energy Performance Contracting for Achieving Urban Sustainability: What is the Research Trend?

Procuring complex performance: implications for exchange governance complexity

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