Equity of Incentives: Agent-Based Explorations of How Social Networks Influence the Efficacy of Programs to Promote Solar Adoption

Table 1

Model scenarios: overview over determining parameters.

	Scenario 1	Scenario 2	Scenario 3	Scenario 4	Scenario 5	Scenario 6	Scenario 7	Scenario 8
Incentive	No incentive	Feed-In	Leasing	Seeding	No incentive	Feed-In	Leasing	Seeding
Segregation	Low (S=0)	Low (S=0)	Low (S=0)	Low (S=0)	High (S=0.75)	High (S=0.75)	High (S=0.75)	High (S=0.75)
Density	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
Incentive quota	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3
Propensity difference	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6
Social influence	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

With these eight scenarios we can study the diffusion processes under the four possible incentive parameters (no incentive, feed-in, leasing, and seeding) in highly segregated (segregation high, S=0.75) and in integrated (segregation low, S=0) networks. Keeping all other (bold font) parameters constant over all simulations allows us to single out the effects of the different incentives and segregation on the diffusion processes.