Responses to changing energy conditions among Massachusetts households

Stern, Paul C.; Black, J. Stanley; Elworth, Julie T.

doi:10.1016/0360-5442(83)90077-4

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“…Stem et al [ 16] observed that the relationship between income and behaviours related to energy use was highly dependent on the income group, rather than income alone. It is also possible that the relationship between behaviour (related to the use of energy) and income is related to cultural and social circumstances [19].…”

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Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: Implications for UK Green Tariff Offerings

Batley¹,

Fleming²,

Urwin

2000

Indoor and Built Environment

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Although financial support for renewable electricity sources has existed via the non-fossil fuel obligation since 1990, the UK 'green power' market is still in its infancy. This paper looks at attitudes to tariffs for green power' in light of the proposed phase-out of the nonfossil fuel obligation. The hypothesis tested was the consumers' willingness to pay for electricity generated from renewable energy sources and to see if this was related to income and attitude. Data for analysis were taken from replies to a questionnaire sent to an energy-aware subpopulation of Leicester which were analysed by a variety of statistical tests. Results of multiple regression analysis indicated that whether someone was willing to pay more was significantly correlated with attitude, experience (whether they had visited an environmental centre) and the purchasing power placed on £5. This finding has implications for the methods by which support for green tariffs can be increased. Education and raising people's awareness through experience should be able to change attitudes and so increase their willingness to pay.

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Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: Implications for UK Green Tariff Offerings

Batley¹,

Fleming²,

Urwin

2000

Indoor and Built Environment

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“…However, the review did not disaggregate types of behavior to allow examination of whether different factors affect different types of ESB or evaluation of which factors are most important in terms of the aggregate impact of ESB. Some research has attempted to develop models that can be used for an integrated analysis across multiple behavioral types (e.g., Black et al, 1985;Stern, Black, & Elworth, 1983) or that can incorporate multiple theoretical perspectives (e.g, Harland, Staats, & Wilke, 2007;Matthies, 2003;Wall, Devine-Wright, & Mill, 2007). Considering that some very important ESBs have rarely been studied, it is premature to draw conclusions about the relative importance of psychological variables or theories for explaining ESB generally.…”

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Contributions of psychology to limiting climate change.

Stern¹

2011

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Council, 2010a). The human activities that directly produce physical changes in Earth's heat balance, such as burning fossil fuels, clearing forests, and raising cattle, are driven in turn by other human activities, including government policies, the growth and migration of human populations, economic and technological development, and the behavior of individuals and households as consumers, members of organizations, and citizens. These actions are influenced in turn by human attitudes, predispositions, beliefs, and social and economic structures (National Research Council, 1992; Swim et al., 2011, this issue). This article discusses what psychology has contributed and can contribute to limiting the magnitude of climate change by altering the human activities that affect it. A Framework for Psychological ContributionsPsychology can contribute to limiting climate change by improving understanding of climate-relevant individual, household, and organizational behaviors that affect climate change and the many personal, social, economic, institutional, policy, and social-structural factors that affect these behaviors, as well as by helping devise ways to turn that understanding into effective interventions. Most of the efforts of psychologists, and most of this review, focus on consumer behaviors. These can be conveniently divided into choices that affect emissions of greenhouse gases directly through household purchases of energy and choices that affect emissions indirectly through the purchase of goods and services that affect the climate through their production, distribution, and disposal. This article focuses mainly on the direct effects because they are large (about 40% of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States; Bin & Dowlatabadi, 2005) and because more is known about the behavioral factors that drive those emissions. It also briefly discusses psychological factors in organizational behavior and in acceptance of policies and technologies.

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“…Stern et al [16] observed that the relationship between income and behaviours related to energy use was highly dependent on the income group, rather than income alone. It is also possible that the relationship between behaviour (related to the use of energy) and income is related to cultural and social circumstances [19].…”

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“…Previous studies [15][16][17][18] have shown that income and similar socio-economic criteria are of fundamental importance in determining behaviour related to the use of energy. Stern et al [16] observed that the relationship between income and behaviours related to energy use was highly dependent on the income group, rather than income alone.…”

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Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: Implications for UK Green Tariff Offerings

Batley¹,

Fleming²,

Urwin

2000

Indoor Built Environ

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Although financial support for renewable electricity sources has existed via the non-fossil fuel obligation since 1990, the UK ‘green power’ market is still in its infancy. This paper looks at attitudes to tariffs for ‘green power’ in light of the proposed phase-out of the non-fossil fuel obligation. The hypothesis tested was the consumers’ willingness to pay for electricity generated from renewable energy sources and to see if this was related to income and attitude. Data for analysis were taken from replies to a questionnaire sent to an energy-aware sub-population of Leicester which were analysed by a variety of statistical tests. Results of multiple regression analysis indicated that whether someone was willing to pay more was significantly correlated with attitude, experience (whether they had visited an environmental centre) and the purchasing power placed on £5. This finding has implications for the methods by which support for green tariffs can be increased. Education and raising people’s awareness through experience should be able to change attitudes and so increase their willingness to pay.

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Responses to changing energy conditions among Massachusetts households

Cited by 18 publications

References 10 publications

Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: Implications for UK Green Tariff Offerings

Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: Implications for UK Green Tariff Offerings

Contributions of psychology to limiting climate change.

Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: Implications for UK Green Tariff Offerings

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