AUTHOR=Zhang Jing , Huang Weilun 

TITLE=A Pilot Assessment of New Energy Usage Behaviors: The Impacts of Environmental Accident, Cognitions, and New Energy Policies

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Environmental Science

VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-science/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.955999

DOI=10.3389/fenvs.2022.955999

ISSN=2296-665X

ABSTRACT=Literature reviews and interviews with experts showed that new energy would be the future way of life instead of traditional energy. In this paper, a questionnaire survey and SPSS model are used to examine the impacts on people's new energy usage behavior (NEUB) by its cognitions of energy-related environmental accidents (CEREA) and new energy policies (CNEP), as well as other important factors affecting this behavior. The NEUB examines the people's new energy usage behavior - product usage (NEUBPU) and forecasted payment (NEUBFP). Among the influencing factors, people’s cognitions of energy-related environmental accidents (CEREA), people’s cognitions of new energy policies (CNEP), new energy characteristics (CNEC), new energy advantages (CNEA) and new energy disadvantages (CNED) are examined, and the influence of personal factors on NEUB is also examined. People's new energy usage behavior - new energy stove (NEUBNES), new energy car (NEUBNEC) and NEUBFP are significantly positively correlated with CNEP, NEUBNEC is significantly positively correlated with CNEA, and NEUBFP is significantly positively correlated with CNEP and CNED. CNEC and CNEP significantly influence people's new energy usage behavior-household photovoltaic system (NEUBHPS); CNEP significantly influences NEUBNES; age, monthly income, CNEA and CNEP significantly influence NEUBNEC; age, monthly income and CNEP significantly influence NEUBFP.