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Table 16 Willingness to pay analysis for early (pre-2003) and late (post-2002) members

From: Ecological, financial, social and societal motives for cooperative energy prosumerism: measuring preference heterogeneity in a Belgian energy cooperative

Attribute

Early WTP (cents/kWh)

Early

Lower CI

Early

Upper CI

Late

WTP (cents/kWh)

Late

Lower CI

Late

Upper CI

Participation

− 0.509

− 2.673

− 1.654

0.388

− -0.172

0.948

Voting rights

3.691

0.537

6.844

1.917

1.305

2.529

RE* 0% (reference)

      

 RE 33%

18.924

12.014

25.835

16.595

15.162

18.447

 RE 66%

31.903

18.315

45.492

26.590

23.858

29.321

 RE 100%

20.501

7.829

33.172

17.707

14.956

20.457

Profit to production projects (reference)

      

 Profit to members

5.286

2.220

8.352

5.695

4.944

6.447

 Profit to societal projects

1.319

− 1.129

3.767

2.418

1.847

2.988

Impact

− 2.742

− 4.700

− 0.784

− 2.486

− 2.933

− 2.039

Scaling

− 0.064

− 1.929

1.802

0.819

0.386

1.251

Diversify none (reference)

      

 Diversify some

− 0.450

− 2.413

1.512

− 0.716

− 1.189

− 0.244

 Diversify much

− 3.225

− 5.534

− 0.916

− 2.255

− 2.800

− 1.709

  1. * Renewable energy