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Electric power in OECD countries is mostly produced by large central generating stations, then transmitted along high voltage lines to local distribution systems that carry it to final consumers. Distributed generation plants are different. They produce power on an electricity consumer’s own...
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Developing growth strategies that promote greener lifestyles requires a good understanding of what factors affect people’s behaviour towards the environment. Recent OECD work based on periodic surveys of more than 10 000 households across a number of countries and areas represents a...
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green household choices? Answering these questions is vital for helping governments design and target policies that promote …. This large-scale household survey explores what drives household environmental behaviour and how policies may affect … household decisions. It focuses on five areas in which households have significant environmental impact: energy, food, transport …
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Household choices – such as what to eat, how to get to work and how to heat our homes – have significant implications … Household Behaviour? presents an overview of results from the 2022 OECD Survey on Environmental Policies and Individual … Behaviour Change. The survey investigates household attitudes and behaviour with respect to energy, transport, waste and food …
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Responding to a Gleneagles G8 Summit request, this book shows how changes in energy efficiency, economic structure, income, prices and fuel mix have affected recent trends in energy use and CO2 emissions in IEA countries. The results are a “wake-up call” for us all. Since 1990, the rate of...
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Feed-in tariffs (FITs) are prevalent support policies for scaling up renewable electricity capacity. They are market-based economic instruments, which typically offer long-term contracts that guarantee a price to be paid to a producer of a pre-determined source of electricity per kWh fed into...
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