Municipal heat provision experiences and expectations in Germany

Table 2 Factor loadings from principal component factor analysis.*

	Factor loading
Item	1 Reliable provider	2 Price and financial security	3 Sustainability	Communality
Local contact person	0.804	0.001	0.005	0.646
Direct contact to the provider	0.755	0.133	0.066	0.592
Long-term partnership	0.640	0.270	0.083	0.490
High trust in provider	0.600	0.354	0.214	0.532
Local provider	0.563	0.000	0.359	0.446
Reasonably priced heating system	0.022	0.810	− 0.004	0.657
Reasonably priced initial investment	0.126	0.795	− 0.027	0.649
Low price fluctuations	0.373	0.598	− 0.017	0.497
Transparent accounting	0.220	0.503	0.378	0.444
High security of supply	0.125	0.482	0.453	0.453
High share of renewable energy	0.155	− 0.151	0.832	0.739
Low pollution	0.122	0.000	0.784	0.629
Future efficiency of energy source	0.009	0.408	0.646	0.585
Eigenvalue	4.082	1.765	1.512
Variance explained in %	19.707	19.523	17.380
α	0.752	0.730	0.710

^*Communalities, eigenvalues, percentages of variance, and alpha values for ratings of attributes of heating systems (N = 263), KMO = 0.794. Boldface indicates the highest factor loadings

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