Investigating the real situation of Greek solar water heating market

Power to change: Analysis of household participation in a renewable energy and energy efficiency programme in Central Australia

“…Demographic characteristics associated with RE adoption include being younger, more highly educated, and having higher income (Labay and Kinnear 1981;Mills and Schleich, 2012;OECD, 2011). Other studies found home owners, people with higher incomes and homes with a pool were more likely to adopt EEMs and RE technologies (Sidiras and Koukios, 2004;Kaldellis et al, 2005;Mills and Schleich, 2009). However, as the predictive value of these factors vary considerably among studies depending on location, date and government policy a definitive relationship between demographics and adoption has not been established (OECD, 2008).…”

Profits or preferences? Assessing the adoption of residential solar thermal technologies

“…These command-and-control type regulations complement previous policies relying predominantly on state and federal subsidies in promoting the adoption of residential solar thermal energy technologies that statistics suggest were relatively successful. Germany had 30% of the cumulative installed solar thermal collector surface area in the EU-15 by the end of 2002 and represented over half of all domestic solar water heating system sales in that year (Kaldellis et al, 2005). The diffusion of solar heating in German is particularly impressive in light of the fact that Germany averages only 1528 h of sunshine a year, less than a third of the total daylight hours.…”

Sustainable Development for Solar Heating Systems in Taiwan

“…Apart from a relatively mature solar thermal technology, it is widely recognized that economic instruments play a key role in disseminating SWHs worldwide [10][11][12][13][14]. In particular, the subsidy associated with the ASC or thermal performance of an SWH has positive effects on economic viability.…”

“…By contrast, a drastic increase in the price of natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas for gas water heaters during the past few years has led to increased annual fuel savings for an SWH installed. Apart from energy prices, incentives, and total installed costs, the economic payback period of an SWH also depends on solar insolation, hot water consumption, and the expected service life of installation [12]. Pan et al [22] reported that the economic payback period in Taiwan ranged from 6 to 15 years.…”