 Perspectives of smart meters’ roll-out in India: An empirical analysis of consumers’ awareness and preferencesYash Chawla, Anna Kowalska-Pyzalska and Anna Skowrońska-Szmer Energy Policy, 2020, vol. 146, issue C Abstract: Within this study, we focus on the consumers’ preferences regarding smart meters (SM). An empirical study has been conducted among Indian social media users, who are predicted to be potential early adopters or innovators in case of SM further market penetration. By dividing the respondents into a few market segments, the study highlights differences between consumers already having SM installed at their household, consumers in the process of installing SM, and consumers who would like to have SM in the future. The study also outlines the profile of consumers who currently have SM installed in their household. Results show that tech-savviness of India’s consumers, common access to the internet for citizens, possession of smart phones by most of the population and ambitious goals of the Indian government, are a very productive mix for a nation wide roll-out of SM in India in the coming years. Keywords: Smart metering; Smart metering platforms; Consumers’ awareness; Stepwise discriminant analysis; On-line questionnaire; Social media (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:enepol:v:146:y:2020:i:c:s0301421520305188 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111798 Access Statistics for this article Energy Policy is currently edited by N. France More articles in Energy Policy from Elsevier |
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