Motivations for Investment in Smart Technologies and Energy Efficiency (MISTEE): The Case of Residential Buildings
| Responsable du projet |
Mehdi Farsi
Martin Jakob |
| Collaborateur |
Sylvain Weber
Benedikt Maciosek Jonas Müller |
| Résumé |
Along with energy innovations and related business models, there
aris-es a paradigm shift in households’ investment in buildings’
energy effi-ciency and smart technologies. We argue that this shift
needs to be adequately addressed in Switzerland’s energy policy.
Various invest-ment opportunities especially in renewable energy
sources, now availa-ble to both owners and tenants, bring about new
trade-offs with previ-ously available investment options. New
investment opportunities call for adapted policies, hence a need
for understanding individual invest-ment motivations and barriers.
We propose two micro-level surveys to study the decision mechanisms
and motivations for household invest-ments for building owners as
well as tenants of residential buildings. In particular we study
the impact of various trade-offs on investment be-haviour across
several groups of households. We apply a stated-preferences method
to a sample of households including tenants. Moreover, we use the
revealed-preferences approach for a sample of owners that benefited
from existing subsidies. |
| Mots-clés |
Energy Efficiency, Residential Buildings, Renewable Energy |
| Type de projet | Recherche appliquée |
| Domaine de recherche | Energy Economics |
| Source de financement | Swiss Federal Office of Energy |
| Etat | En cours |
| Début de projet | 1-9-2019 |
| Fin du projet | 31-6-2022 |
| Contact | Mehdi Farsi |