Market barriers to energy efficiency

Market and Policy Barriers to Deployment of Energy Storage

There has recently been resurgent interest in energy storage, due to a number of developments in the electricity industry. Despite this interest, very little storage, beyond some small demonstration projects, has been deployed recently. While technical issues, such as cost, device efficiency, and other technical characteristics are often listed as barriers to storage, there are a number of non-...

Understanding barriers to energy-efficiency renovations of multifamily dwellings

We have studied how energy efficiency is discussed by professionals during renovation of multifamily dwellings, in order to capture how barriers in relation to energy measures are appearing, disappearing and transformed during the process. We did participatory observations of renovation meetings, conducted interviews with the involved professionals and studied-related documents. Our intentions ...

Policy options to overcome barriers to industrial energy efficiency in developing countries

Energy and Reserve Market Clearing to Consider Interruptible Loads

This paper demonstrates a method to how reserve capacity and cost allocation could be determined in a pool-based and disaggregated market model. The method considers both the spinning reserve and interruptible loads as the operating reserve services. In the proposed market, generators and consumers (including participation of interruptible loads) submit offers and bids to the independent system...

Overcoming Barriers to Sustainable Market Differentiation