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- Title
Assessing the Role of Financial Incentives in Promoting Eco-Friendly Houses in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area—Portugal.
- Authors
Koengkan, Matheus; Fuinhas, José Alberto; Radulescu, Magdalena; Kazemzadeh, Emad; Alavijeh, Nooshin Karimi; Santiago, Renato; Teixeira, Mônica
- Abstract
This article investigates the impact of fiscal and financial incentives for energy efficiency labels on eco-friendly houses (houses with high energy efficiency certificates, such as A+, A, B, and B−) in 18 municipalities in the Lisbon metropolitan region during the period 2014–2020. The empirical results indicate that the variables of fiscal incentive policies for energy efficiency labels, income per capita, credit agreements for the purchase or construction of a house, and the number of completed dwellings in new constructions for family housing encourage eco-friendly houses. In contrast, the variable number of completed reconstructions per 100 completed new constructions has a negative impact. Although this study is constrained by data limitations resulting from the short period under analysis and the moderate number of municipalities available, it advances the discussions around energy efficiency in residential properties in Portugal. Furthermore, it investigates the effectiveness of tax incentive policies for energy efficiency seals as an instrument for promoting ecological houses in the municipalities of the Lisbon metropolitan area. Thus, the need to study the Portuguese capital stands out as it is the most populous city in the country and concentrates a large part of the economic activity.
- Subjects
LISBON (Portugal); PORTUGAL; MONETARY incentives; HOUSE construction; ENERGY consumption; RESIDENTIAL real estate; ENERGY economics; METROPOLITAN areas; ECOLOGICAL houses; DWELLING design &; construction
- Publication
Energies (19961073), 2023, Vol 16, Issue 4, p1839
- ISSN
1996-1073
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/en16041839