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Table 7 Willingness to pay analysis per class

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

Attribute

Class 1 WTP (cents/kWh)

Class 2 WTP (cents/kWh)

Class 3 WTP (cents/kWh)

Participation

− 1.575

23.395

− 1.913

Voting rights

− 0.221

14.317

0.906

Renewable energy 0% (reference)

   

 Renewable energy 33%

6.888

9.472

21.777

 Renewable energy 66%

6.346

22.287

35.624

 Renewable energy 100%

6.493

22.350

20.540

Profit to production projects (reference)

   

 Profit to members

7.768

14.433

2.719

 Profit to societal projects

2.315

7.375

1.819

Impact

− 0.755

− 3.282

− 2.986

Scaling

2.677

− 5.185

− 0.858

Diversify none (reference)

   

 Diversify some

0.827

− 4.370

− 0.096

 Diversify much

− 0.809

− 6.446

− 3.952