Green in the heart or greens in the wallet? The spatial uptake of small-scale renewable technologies
Allan, Grant J. and McIntyre, Stuart G. (2017) Green in the heart or greens in the wallet? The spatial uptake of small-scale renewable technologies. Energy Policy, 102. pp. 108-115. ISSN 1873-6777 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2016.12.005)
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Abstract
The introduction of a Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) support mechanism has spurred development of small-scale domestic renewable electricity generation throughout Great Britain (GB), however the spatial pattern of uptake has been been uneven, suggesting that local, as well as between neighbourhood factors may be at important. As well as confirming that local socio-economic factors, including wealth, housing type and population density are found to be important in explaining uptake of this policy, local "green" attitudes - measured in three different ways - are shown not to be important. Existing local technical expertise, proxied for using data on small-scale renewable electricity devices in each area prior to the introduction of FIT, is an important factor in explaining subsequent adoption. Critically, we also find that there are spatial (i.e. between neighbourhood) processes explaining the uptake of these technologies. Taken together, our results suggest that, as currently designed, FIT policy may be regressive in income and could exacerbate spatial economic in-equalities.
ORCID iDs
Allan, Grant J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1404-2768 and McIntyre, Stuart G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0640-7544;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 58942 Dates: DateEvent31 March 2017Published14 December 2016Published Online2 December 2016AcceptedSubjects: Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > Environmental Sciences
Social Sciences > Communities. Classes. Races > Regional economics. Space in economicsDepartment: Strathclyde Business School > Economics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 02 Dec 2016 12:00 Last modified: 29 Nov 2024 02:07 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/58942