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. 2020 Aug 24;135:110199. doi: 10.1016/j.rser.2020.110199

Table 8.

Cost-effectiveness for different perspectives.

Parameter End users perspective Society perspective Government perspective Ref.
Costs Additional costs to be paid by people responsible for energy saving measure implementation compared to reference case
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    Costs to be incurred by society compared to reference case.

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    Societal cost-effectiveness

Amount spend by government in form of both financial and non-financial incentives provided to end-users [11,170]
Time Actual costs at time of payments Longer time frame with discounted costs evaluation Longer time frame with discounted costs evaluation [11]
Indicators
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    Simple PBP

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    Investment profit

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    Marginal costs

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    Cost of saved energy

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    Benefit-to-cost Ratio (B/C)

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    Change in LCC

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    Total costs per unit of energy saved

Program costs per unit of energy saved
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    FI per unit of energy saved

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    Fiscal environment

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    Non-energy impacts (e.g. health and welfare)

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    Total costs per unit of energy saved

  • Program costs per unit of energy saved

  • -

    FI per unit of energy saved

[170]
Subsides
Taxes
Cost emissions
Interest rate



Real interest rate



Societal interest rate
[23,176]