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The Impact of Location and Proximity on Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Green Electricity: The Case of West Virginia.

机译：地理位置和邻近性对消费者购买绿色电力的意愿的影响：以西弗吉尼亚州为例。

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During the 2015 legislative session, West Virginia lawmakers passed a bill to repeal the Renewable and Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act of 2009 (ARPS). Legislators stated concerns about ARPS's impacts on coal industry related jobs in the state as the major factor driving this repeal. However, no comprehensive study on public acceptance, opinions, or willingness to pay (WTP) for renewable/and or alternative sources of electricity within West Virginia was used to inform this repeal decision. As the state of West Virginia struggles to find the right path to expand its renewable energy portfolio, public acceptance of renewable electricity is crucial to establishing a viable market for these forms of energy and also ensure the long-term sustainability of any RPS policy that may be enacted in the future. This study sought to assess consumers' preferences, attitudes and WTP for renewable and alternative electricity in West Virginia. The monetary values that consumers placed on proximity as an attribute of a renewable and alternative electricity generation source were also estimated.;Two counties in West Virginia were selected as study areas based on the types of electricity generation facility that already exist in each county --one county with coal-fired power plants (Monongalia County) and another with both a coal-fired power plant and a wind farm (Grant County). A forced choice experiment survey was used with attributes that varied in source of energy (wind versus natural gas), proximity of the generation source relative to the respondent's residence (near, moderate or far) and an additional premium per month on the electric bill (varying from ;Results from the study showed that respondents in both counties had preferences for electricity generated from wind compared to natural gas. A majority of the sampled populations chose the wind option, 62.0% in Monongalia County and 60.0% in Grant County. The sampled populations in Monongalia and Grant Counties were willing to pay a weighted mean of ;Both county level sampled populations were willing to pay a higher premium to site wind turbines or a natural gas-fired power plant at the farthest location relative to the baseline location (near a respondent's current residence). Grant County respondents were willing to pay a slightly higher positive premium (mean of ;Results from this study suggest that the decision for an outright repeal of the ARPS bill was flawed. Based on Monongalia and Grant County populations, there are social benefits derived from generating 10% of the electricity supplied to consumers in West Virginia from renewable and alternative energy sources, and wind is preferred to natural gas. This repeal implies there are few, if any, benefits. Given this repeal, I suggest that a voluntary green pricing program with a focus on wind energy serve as an alternative renewable energy policy in West Virginia. Under such a policy, consumers who are concerned about the environment and are willing to pay a positive premium for renewable electricity would be able to opt into the program. Premiums paid by participants of such a program can be used to increase the renewable energy share in West Virginia's energy portfolio.
机译：在2015年的立法会议上，西弗吉尼亚州的立法者通过了一项法案，以废除2009年的《可再生和替代能源组合标准法案》（ARPS）。立法者表示担心ARPS对该州煤炭行业相关工作的影响，这是推动废除该法案的主要因素。但是，没有对西弗吉尼亚州的公众对可再生/和/或替代能源的接受程度，意见或支付意愿（WTP）进行全面研究，以此作为废除该决定的依据。随着西弗吉尼亚州努力寻找正确的途径来扩大其可再生能源产品组合，公众对可再生能源的接受对于建立这些形式的能源的可行市场以及确保任何可能的RPS政策的长期可持续性至关重要。将来制定。这项研究旨在评估西弗吉尼亚州消费者对可再生能源和替代电力的偏好，态度和WTP。还估算了消费者作为可再生和替代电力来源的属性而接近消费者的货币价值。;根据每个县已经存在的发电设施的类型，选择了西弗吉尼亚州的两个县作为研究区域-一个县有燃煤发电厂（莫农加利亚县），另一个县有燃煤发电厂和一个风电场（格兰特县）。使用了强制选择实验调查，其属性在能源（风能与天然气），发电源相对于受访者的住所的距离（近，中或远）和每月电费的额外保险费（研究结果表明，与天然气相比，两个县的受访者都偏爱风能发电。大多数抽样人群选择了风能选项，莫农加利亚县为62.0％，格兰特县为60.0％。 Monongalia和Grant县的居民愿意支付的加权平均值为;两个县级抽样人口都愿意为距离基准位置最远的位置的风力涡轮机或天然气发电厂支付更高的保费（相对于基线位置）格兰特县的受访者愿意支付略高的正溢价（均值；该研究的结果表明，彻底废除ARPS法案的决定是错误的。根据莫农纳利亚（Monongalia）和格兰特县（Grant County）的人口，通过使用可再生能源和替代能源为西弗吉尼亚州的消费者提供10％的电力，可以产生社会效益，并且风能比天然气更受青睐。这种废除意味着几乎没有好处。考虑到这一废除，我建议以西弗吉尼亚为自愿的绿色定价计划，将风能作为替代性可再生能源政策。在这样的政策下，关心环境并愿意为可再生电力支付正价的消费者将能够选择加入该计划。该计划参与者支付的保费可用于增加西弗吉尼亚州能源组合中的可再生能源份额。

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    Nkansah, Kofi.;

  • 作者单位

    West Virginia University.;

  • 授予单位 West Virginia University.;
  • 学科 Economics.;Environmental economics.;Energy.;Alternative Energy.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2016
  • 页码 233 p.
  • 总页数 233
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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