There has been a good deal of work on how policy interventions can encourage the development of new/improved innovations (induced innovation). There are, however, only limited and disparate contributions on how, if at all, policy interventions can encourage the greater use of existing...

Green electricity tariffs are a means by which, green consumers, can contribute to investment in renewable energy. In order to conceptualize factors constraining the adoption of green electricity tariffs this paper develops a model that links the willingness-to-pay (WTP) literature with the...

Recent years have seen growing academic interest in the concept of induced diffusion as efforts to address concerns about energy security and climate change have intensified. Research on induced diffusion explores whether policy tools or interventions can incentivise the diffusion of...

Programmes for carbon emissions reductions invariably require households to adopt energy efficiency measures such as heating controls. Thus understanding why households adopt efficiency measures and what policies can successfully increase their adoption (induced diffusion), is critically to...