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The Adoption of Energy Efficiency Enhancing Technologies

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Erik Verhoef ()
Peter Nijkamp () (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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This paper analyses the adoption of energy-efficiency enhancing technologies by heterogeneous firms. The fact that energy use does not only cause external environmental costs through pollution, but also directly affects the profitability of the firm and hence its behaviour on input and output markets is taken for granted. It is demonstrated that the consideration of such market processes may have important implications for the efficiency of environmental policies concerned with energy use. The analysis focuses in particular on the efficiency of the market-led adoption and diffusion process under various policy regimes. It is shown that the promotion of energy-efficiency enhancing technologies might have unexpected effects in that it could lead to an increase in energy use, while the use of energy taxes might actually reduce the attractiveness of energy-saving technologies.

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Paper provided by Tinbergen Institute in its series Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers with number 97-077/3.

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Keywords: environmental regulation energy adoption of technologies heterogeneous firms externalities

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D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy
O33 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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  1. Productivity Commission, 2001. "The environmental performance of commercial buildings," Others 0107010, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
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