No-regret Potentials in Energy Conservation : an Analysis of Their Relevance, Size and Determinants /

The climate change debate has stimulated a controversy on the existence and size of potentials to reduce energy consumption at an economic benefit, so-called no-regret potentials. This book develops a theoretical evaluation framework with particular focus on transaction costs and real option theory....

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Main Author: Ostertag, Katrin
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint : Physica, 2003.
Series:Technology, Innovation and Policy, Series of the Fraunhofer Institue for Systems and Innovation Research ISI ; 15.
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Summary:The climate change debate has stimulated a controversy on the existence and size of potentials to reduce energy consumption at an economic benefit, so-called no-regret potentials. This book develops a theoretical evaluation framework with particular focus on transaction costs and real option theory. The resulting typology of no-regret potentials serves to re-evaluate the no-regret potential inherent in highly efficient electric motors and in energy service contracting. Both case studies confirm the existence of no-regret potentials, even if they indicate a certain spread of results around the original estimates. The book concludes with perspectives for deriving more aggregated model-based results.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 407 pages 42 illustrations)
ISBN:9783642573422 (electronic bk.)
3642573428 (electronic bk.)
ISSN:1431-9667 ;