Behavioral factors shaping energy citizenship

IF 9.2 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-20 DOI:10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114820

Nives Della Valle , Chiara Gioia

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Abstract

The European Union encourages citizens to go beyond passive consumption and actively participate in the energy transition. This concept is well captured in the idea of energy citizenship. This study contributes to the operationalization of energy citizenship in two ways. First, it introduces an empirical measure of energy citizenship through a survey-based index. Second, it investigates key personal and behavioral drivers affecting energy citizenship. The research is based on survey data collected from two different European regions: South and East. Findings suggest that behavioral factors such as altruism, individual and institutional trust, risk tolerance, and patience—along with socio-economic factors like education levels and energy vulnerability— are key drivers of energy citizenship. Country-specific differences also emerge: in Poland, institutional trust appears to be a stronger condition for energy citizenship to develop, while political orientation plays a different role in each country. Although based on correlational analysis, this study sheds light on the drivers and barriers of energy citizenship and suggests possible future policy implications for its promotion.

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塑造能源公民的行为因素

欧盟鼓励公民超越被动消费，积极参与能源转型。这一概念在能源公民的概念中得到了很好的体现。本研究在两个方面有助于能源公民的运作。首先，它通过基于调查的指数引入了能源公民的经验测量。其次，它调查了影响能源公民的关键个人和行为驱动因素。这项研究基于从欧洲南部和东部两个不同地区收集的调查数据。研究结果表明，利他主义、个人和机构信任、风险承受能力和耐心等行为因素，以及教育水平和能源脆弱性等社会经济因素，是能源公民的关键驱动因素。具体国家的差异也出现了：在波兰，制度信任似乎是能源公民发展的一个更强的条件，而政治取向在每个国家起着不同的作用。虽然基于相关分析，本研究揭示了能源公民的驱动因素和障碍，并提出了可能的未来政策影响，以促进其发展。

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Energy Policy 管理科学-环境科学

CiteScore

17.30

自引率

5.60%

发文量

540

审稿时长

7.9 months

期刊介绍： Energy policy is the manner in which a given entity (often governmental) has decided to address issues of energy development including energy conversion, distribution and use as well as reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in order to contribute to climate change mitigation. The attributes of energy policy may include legislation, international treaties, incentives to investment, guidelines for energy conservation, taxation and other public policy techniques. Energy policy is closely related to climate change policy because totalled worldwide the energy sector emits more greenhouse gas than other sectors.