This article explores whether and to what extent individuals are willing to voluntarily pay a premium for products that provide public environmental benefits. In particular, we critically review and analyze the status and impacts of U.S. green power marketing to date. Green power marketing—the business of selling electricity products distinguished by their environmental attributes—seeks to deve...

In recent years, formal certification programs for rating and evaluating the sustainability and energy efficiency of buildings have proliferated around the world. Developers recognize that such “green labels” differentiate products and allow them to charge a price premium. China has not formally adopted such rating standards. In the absence of such standards, developers are competing with each ...

India seeks to achieve 175 Giga-Watt (GW) of Renewable power by 2022. As of December 2017, out of 333 GW of total installed capacity of electricity, close to 62GW come from renewable sources. Meeting the set targets calls for augmentation of renewable energy based capacities as expeditiously as possible. However, the sick financial health of the distribution companies/utilities, who act a...

Although there remains some controversy regarding the issue of humaninduced climate change, there is always a market for money-saving devices, including those that increase energy and water use efficiency.1 There are also nonpecuniary benefits of human comfort when a residence maintains its temperature with less cycling of heating and cooling devices, so it is reasonable that buyers would pay f...

Decarbonised steel, enabled by green hydrogen-based iron ore reduction and renewable electricity-based steel making, will disrupt the traditional supply chain. Focusing on energetic techno-economic assessment of potential chains, this study investigates direct reduced iron-electric arc furnace production route energy deployed in regional settings. The hypothesis, that co-locating manufacturing ...

oil industry is the largest economic sector in the country. but despite the insurance role in the energy insurance sector, the insurance industry’s share in the oil and energy presents an inappropriate combination. latest analysis and surveys show that during the last three years the premium experience a negative growth in each year with respect to its previous year and it also shows the premiu...

The cost of electricity from wind is about 4 ¢ per kilowatt-hour (kWh) according to M. Z. Jacobson and G. M. Masters' estimate in their Policy Forum "Exploiting wind versus coal" (Science's Compass, 24 Aug., p. 1438), making wind energy competitive with new coal-fired generation. There is a 1.5-¢/kWh federal credit for wind energy producers, and, in addition, consumers are willing to pay a prem...

A qualitative study was conducted to investigate perceptions of environmental practices at hotels among tourists. A quota sample of fifteen mainland Chinese and fifteen English-speaking overseas tourists visiting Hong Kong were recruited for an interview. The results showed that saving energy, use of environmentally friendly materials, and not using single-use consumables were most frequently p...

This study concerns the determination of empirical evidence a real estate market premium for Green Buildings and an aware role private as driver to foster-up urban architectural sustainability energy efficiency. In markets, there is growing relevance Buildings, especially in cities where greater part residential buildings built before first regulations on performance. Through policies oriented ...