Harnessing social networks for promoting adoption of energy technologies in the domestic sector
Harnessing social networks for promoting adoption of energy technologies in the domestic sector
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DOI：
10.1016/j.enpol.2013.09.033
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发表时间：
2013-12-01
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9
通讯作者：
Gale, William F.
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作者：
Bale, Catherine S. E.;McCullen, Nicholas J.;Gale, William F.
本文介绍的结果，从建模工作调查的影响，社交网络采用能源技术在国内部门。这项工作涉及的想法，社会网络干预已成功地应用于其他领域，但很少被应用到能源政策问题。我们采用了一个动态的多参数网络模型，其中家庭表示为网络上的节点，对技术的吸收受到个人利益和社会影响。这是适用于证明这种类型的模型在评估不同的推广战略，地方当局可以在促进国内能源技术的吸收可能取得的成功的有用性。地方当局可以在改造能效和低碳能源生产技术方面发挥关键作用，以实现碳减排和缓解燃料贫困。情景模拟不同的地方政府干预，目标网络的相互作用和吸收阈值效应，结果提供政策的见解。使用这种类型的建模在了解国内部门采用能源创新和设计地方一级的干预措施的潜力得到证明。(C)2013爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
This paper presents results from modelling work investigating the effects of social networks on the adoption of energy technologies in the domestic sector. This work concerns ideas on social network interventions which have been successfully applied in other domains but which have seldom been applied to energy policy questions. We employ a dynamical multi-parameter network model where households are represented as nodes on a network for which the uptake of technologies is influenced by both personal benefit and social influences. This is applied to demonstrate the usefulness of this type of model in assessing the likely success of different roll-out strategies that a local authority could pursue in promoting the uptake of domestic energy technologies. Local authorities can play a key role in the retrofit of energy-efficiency and low-carbon energy-generation technologies in order to realise carbon reductions and alleviate fuel poverty. Scenarios are modelled for different local authority interventions that target network interactions and uptake threshold effects, and the results provide insights for policy. The potential for the use of this type of modelling in understanding the adoption of energy innovations in the domestic sector and designing local-level interventions is demonstrated. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.