The Effectiveness of Policy Instruments for Energy-Efficiency Improvement in Firms

Improvement of energy efficiency is one of the important options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. According to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, hundreds of technologies for improving the end-use energy ef

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ECO-EFFICIENCY IN INDUSTRY AND SCIENCE VOLUME 15 Series Editor: Arnold Thkker, TNO-STB, Delft, The Netherlands Editorial Advisory Board: Martin Charter, Centre for Sustainable Design, The Surrey Institute ofArt & Design, Farnham, United Kingdom John Ehrenfeld, International Society for Industrial Ecology, New Haven, U.S.A. Gjalt Huppes, Centre of Environmental Science, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands Reid Lifset, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, U.S.A. Theo de Bruijn, Center for Clean Technology and Environmental Policy (CSTM), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

The Effectiveness of Policy Instruments for Energy-Efficiency Improvement in Firms The Dutch Experience by

Kornelis Blok Copernicus Institute/or Sustainable Development and Innovation, Utncht Univenity. The Netherlands

Henri L.F. de Groot

Department a/Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Esther E.M. Luiten

Copunicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation,

Utrecht University, The Netherlands

,"d Martijn G. Rietbergen CoperniCUS Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation, Utrecht Univt!Tsiry, The Netherlands

Springer-Science+Business Media, B. V.

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ISBN 978-90-481-6553-7 ISBN 978-1-4020-2157-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-2157-2

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TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF F1GU~ ............................................................ .ix LIST OF BOXES .......................................................... ....... xi

1 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................. 1 1.1

Aim of the research .................................................................................... 1

1.2

Policy instruments for energy-efficiency improvement.............................. 2

1.3

The characterisation of policy instruments ............................................... 3

1.4

Disciplinary approaches ............................................................................ 5

1.5

Outline ....................................................................................................... 7

2 A FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSING THE ADOPTION OF ENERGY -EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGIES .................................... 9 2.1

Introduction ...............