This research investigates the acceptability of energy efficiency policies among European households. Based on large-scale surveys in Italy, Poland, Sweden, and the UK, we use a discrete choice experiment to study the trade-offs made by households between various policy characteristics including policy target level, dependence on energy imports, policy instruments (education and information programmes, standards, taxation, energy consumption limit), costs to the household, and distribution of costs between households and other sectors. In particular, we investigate the role of trust in government and of environmental identity on the acceptability of these policy characteristics. Across the four countries, we find that households prefer effective policies, dislike personal costs, and prefer non-coercive to coercive instruments; further, trust in government helps make coercive policies such as taxes more acceptable, whereas higher environmental identity makes consumption limits more acceptable.

本研究调查了欧洲家庭对能源效率政策的接受程度。基于意大利、波兰、瑞典和英国的大规模调查，我们使用离散选择实验来研究家庭在政策目标水平、对能源进口的依赖、政策工具（教育和信息计划、标准、税收、能源消耗限制）、家庭成本以及家庭和其他部门之间的成本分配。特别是，我们调查了对政府的信任和环境认同对这些政策特征的可接受性的作用。在这四个国家中，我们发现家庭更喜欢有效的政策，不喜欢个人成本，更喜欢非强制性而非强制性工具；更远，