Consumers\'\' Willingness to Pay for the Renewable Energy Instead of Nuclear Power Generation

• Main Authors: Chein-Chung Chen, 陳建仲
• Other Authors: Chia-Lin Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/login?o=dnclcdr&s=id=%22107NCHU5412018%22.&searchmode=basic

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 應用經濟學系所 === 107 === Climate change is one of the most important environmental issues at present. The extreme climate caused by climate change and the concern about the possible depletion of fossil energy in the future have prompted lots of countries to devote themselves to the development of low-carbon energy, which can be divided into nuclear energy and renewable energy. The pollution of nuclear energy is controversial. After the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, people have suspected about its safety. Besides, Taiwan have abundant natural resources, such as wind and solar energy, so the government intended to promote energy transformation in recent years. Therefore, we used contingent valuation method to estimate consumers'' willingness to pay (WTP) for the renewable energy instead of nuclear power generation, find out the influence factors of Taiwanese people’s WTP, and give some suggestions on policy. Dichotomous question was used in our survey. We used single-bound dichotomous choice (SBDC) and double-bound dichotomous choice (DBDC) to estimate the consumers'' WTP. The outcome shows that the personal per month WTP of Taiwanese people to replace nuclear power with renewable energy ranges from new Taiwan dollar (NTD) 1.41 to NTD 3.80 per month, and the annual total WTP of Taiwanese people is between NTD 0.33 billion and NTD 0.89 billion.