Effective information channels for reducing costs of environmentally- friendly technologies: Evidence from residential PV markets

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Rai, Varun ^a,b   Robinson, Scott A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

consumer decision making; diffusion of innovations; distributed generation; peer effects; residential solar PV

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; DECISION MAKING; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

CONSUMER DECISION-MAKING; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS; DISTRIBUTED GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION MODELS; PEER EFFECTS; PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATIONS; RESIDENTIAL SOLAR PV; TECHNOLOGICAL UNCERTAINTY;

HOUSING;

DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; INNOVATION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876196655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014044     Document Type: Article

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