Determining the Success of Market Development Programs and the Continuing Role of Government

摘要

Evaluating programs that are intended to bring about structural changes in the manufacture, stocking, promotion, sale, and use of energy efficiency products and services poses some interesting and unique challenges. These initiatives are largely government-led and implemented through either regulatory or legislative authority. Aside from the challenges of determining the success of such efforts and the relationship between program actions and market effects,t here is the added chalenge of knwoing when and if government should discontinue its support for such efforts.