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Red is the new blue – The role of color, building integration and country-of-origin in homeowners ’ preferences for residential photovoltaics

Journal
Energy and Buildings
ISSN
0378-7788
ISSN-Digital
1872-6178
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2018-03
Author(s)
Hille, Stefanie  
Curtius, Hans Christoph  
Wüstenhagen, Rolf  
DOI
10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.11.070
Abstract
The wider diffusion of solar photovoltaics (PV) is crucial to lower the environmental impact of the residential sector, which is responsible for a large share of energy consumption in many industrialized countries, including Switzerland. By conducting an adaptive choice-based conjoint (ACBC) with a representative sample of Swiss homeowners planning to undertake a roof renovation project, we investigate the extent to which financial and non-financial factors drive homeowners’ preferences for PV in Switzerland. We reveal that the color and country of origin of the PV modules are the main drivers for increasing share of preference for PV. In addition, we estimate the price premium that homeowners are willing to payfor building-integrated PV (BIPV) versus rack-mounted PV. We find a premium in willingness to pay of 21.79% for a roof with a BIPV installation in comparison with a rack-mounted PV installation. We further show that an increase in revenues from electricity sales (e.g. via feed-in tariffs), when transparently disclosed over an aggregated time frame, would be almost equally effective in spurring demand for PV as a decrease of initial investment costs (e.g. via one-off investment grants). Implications for energy policy and marketing are discussed.
Funding(s)
ACTIVE INTERFACES - Understanding consumer and investor preferences to overcome barriers for a large use of BIPV in the Swiss urban context  
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SoM - Business Innovation
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Publisher place
Amsterdam [u.a.]
Volume
162
Start page
21
End page
31
Pages
11
Official URL
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378778817303298
URL
https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/100704
Subject(s)

business studies

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IWOE - Institute for ...

University of St.Gall...

Contact Email Address
rolf.wuestenhagen@unisg.ch
Eprints ID
253227
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