… that business investments in energy efficiency we made with the … investment risk in energy
efficiency is not a market failure and that it does not result in a suboptimal level of conservation…

… argue that high discount rates are, in fact, warranted given the riskiness of energy efficiency
investments. The first is framed in terms of the diversification options available for these …

… how drivers and barriers to energy efficiency operate, … market-based factors, as well as
organizational/individual behavioural factors, play important roles in energy efficiency investment …

… market, the costs and benefits of energy efficiency improvements may accrue to different
agents, splitting the incentive to invest … through such investments, cost-effective energy savings …

… of energy efficiency. This paper discusses various structural and behavioral barriers that
inhibit adoption of energy-efficient … investments to improve industrial energy efficiency [ 12 ]. …

… This is not the case for investments in energy savings. The difficulty home owners face in
getting a solar water heater installed on their roofs v the ease with which they can obtain an …

… This section develops a taxonomy of barriers to energy efficiency, drawing on concepts from
neo-classical economics, institutional economics (principal-agency theory and transaction …

… private investment in energy efficient technologies at a minimum cost to the consumer, we
need to find out which factors (drivers and barriers) influence private investment decisions. But …

… When businesses do invest in energy efficiency, a portion of the energy savings go to the
federal government in the form of higher taxes (eg, 25% for a business with the typical effective …

… barriers to energy efficiency … energy efficiency investments due to his or her distrust in the
executive’s ability to convey such investments—leading to the neglect of costeffective energy …