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| DOI | 10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112832 |
| Friends with benefits: How income and peer diffusion combine to create an inequality “trap” in the uptake of low-carbon technologies | |
| Stewart F. | |
| 发表日期 | 2022 |
| ISSN | 0301-4215 |
| 卷号 | 163 |
| 英文摘要 | What drives inequalities in the uptake of low-carbon energy technologies? Research has shown that people on higher incomes are significantly more likely to access and benefit from policies designed to boost uptake of clean energy technologies than those with lower incomes, revealing a pervasive inequality issue. Yet little is known about how these inequalities evolve or interact with factors beyond income alone, understanding of which is crucial to designing policies which do not simply replicate or exacerbate existing inequalities going forward. This paper thus advances the novel “feed-in-tariff trap” theory, which posits that, rather than income alone, peer diffusion and socioeconomic factors compound to widen inequalities in the uptake of low-carbon technologies over time. Using a combination of mixed effects and piecewise structural equation modelling, this theory is tested on the adoption of 21,206 household-level wind and solar PV installations across 6976 micro-level data-zones in Scotland between 2009 and 2020 under the UK government feed-in-tariff. It finds crucially that: (1) household solar PV and wind are adopted consistently in higher-income areas, (2) peer diffusion is strongest in higher income areas with high early adoption rates, and (3) socioeconomic conditions are extremely temporally stubborn. Combined, this trifecta creates an inequality “trap”, locking the benefits of low-carbon technology subsidies into the same higher income areas and widening the gap in uptake between more affluent and deprived communities as a result. Recommendations are given on how best to address this, with implications for anyone concerned with a “just” transition going forward. © 2022 |
| 英文关键词 | Feed-in-tariff; Inequality; Just transition; Peer diffusion; Social equity; Solar PV; Wind |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| scopus关键词 | Carbon; Digital storage; Economic and social effects; Energy policy; Indium compounds; Clean energy technology; Feed-in tariff; Inequality; Just transition; Low incomes; Low-carbon energy technology; Low-carbon technologies; Peer diffusion; Social equity; Solar PVs; Diffusion; energy conservation; energy management; energy policy; energy use; income distribution; photovoltaic system; wind power; United Kingdom |
| 来源期刊 | Energy Policy
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/256326 |
| 作者单位 | University of Strathclyde, McCance Building, Richmond Street, Scotland, Glasgow, G1 1XQ, United Kingdom |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Stewart F.. Friends with benefits: How income and peer diffusion combine to create an inequality “trap” in the uptake of low-carbon technologies[J],2022,163. |
| APA | Stewart F..(2022).Friends with benefits: How income and peer diffusion combine to create an inequality “trap” in the uptake of low-carbon technologies.Energy Policy,163. |
| MLA | Stewart F.."Friends with benefits: How income and peer diffusion combine to create an inequality “trap” in the uptake of low-carbon technologies".Energy Policy 163(2022). |
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