Would You Like to Trade Your Energy? A Comparative Survey Experiment on Energy Trading Platforms
通过在欧洲三国开展激励性调查实验，研究货币与非货币激励对居民参与能源交易平台意愿的影响，发现环境关切和脱离国家电网的独立性比金钱更重要。
As energy markets become more decentralised, energy trading platforms are emerging as useful tools to facilitate the coordination of energy consumption and generation, encouraging a more efficient use of renewable energy by residential producers and consumers. By exploring three different European countries, we study the effectiveness of both monetary and non-monetary incentives in fostering energy trade via trading platforms. We use an incentivized survey experiment to evaluate the drivers of consumers’ and prosumers’ willingness to participate in an energy trading platform. We find that the monetary incentive is not necessarily the main reason why people would choose to trade their energy, but other dimensions, such as environmental concerns and independence from the national grid, play an important role.