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Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies from a Demand Side Management Perspective: Taxonomy of Adoption Drivers, Barriers and Policy Tools

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Energy efficiency is considered an alternative to building a power plant. However products and services enabling these efficiencies sometimes hit bottlenecks in adoption. This chapter reviews this important issue.

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Iskin, I., Daim, T. (2013). Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies from a Demand Side Management Perspective: Taxonomy of Adoption Drivers, Barriers and Policy Tools. In: Daim, T., Oliver, T., Kim, J. (eds) Research and Technology Management in the Electricity Industry. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5097-8_15

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