What are the factors that discourage companies in the Irish commercial sector from investigating energy saving options?

dc.check.date2019-04-25
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dc.contributor.authorClancy, J. M.
dc.contributor.authorCurtis, J.
dc.contributor.authorÓ Gallachóir, Brian P.
dc.contributor.funderSustainable Energy Authority of Irelanden
dc.contributor.funderEconomic and Social Research Instituteen
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-28T11:34:01Z
dc.date.available2017-08-28T11:34:01Z
dc.date.issued2017-04-25
dc.date.updated2017-08-28T11:26:49Z
dc.description.abstractTo implement an energy saving measure, companies must first decide to investigate the options available. Representative survey data shows that almost half of companies in the Irish commercial sector do not take this step. This paper explores the barriers and drivers of this. Two logit models are fit to data to estimate the influence of variables, representing company and building characteristics, on the likelihoods of a company investigating either a fabric upgrade or a behaviour change measure. Companies are more likely to investigate a fabric upgrade that: own the building they operate from, make energy related decisions locally, have more than 10 employees, have had a recent renovation, accept longer paybacks, and apply a case by case approach to budget decisions. Hotels and offices were found to have a higher likelihood of investigating fabric options. Lack of knowledge of building floor area reduced the likelihood of investigation of both fabric upgrade and behavioural options. Much of the previous research is concerned with the final adoption of measures; this analysis adds additional insights by identifying the factors that determine if a company is likely to investigate the options available.en
dc.description.sponsorshipScience Foundation Ireland (Grant No. 12/RC/2302)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationClancy, J. M., Curtis, J. and Ó Gallachóir, B. P. (2017) 'What are the factors that discourage companies in the Irish commercial sector from investigating energy saving options?', Energy and Buildings, 146, pp. 243-256. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.04.077en
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.04.077
dc.identifier.endpage256en
dc.identifier.issn0378-7788
dc.identifier.journaltitleEnergy and Buildingsen
dc.identifier.startpage243en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/4551
dc.identifier.volume146en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevier Ltden
dc.rights© 2017, Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 licenseen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectEnergy efficiencyen
dc.subjectCommercial sectoren
dc.subjectBarriersen
dc.subjectLogit modelen
dc.titleWhat are the factors that discourage companies in the Irish commercial sector from investigating energy saving options?en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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