Drivers of market transformation: analysis of the Hungarian lighting success tory

摘要

Over the past 5 years, Hungary has experienced one of the most remarkable market successes in a key energy-efficiency technology: compact fluorescent lighting. While market shares of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) were negligible half a decade ago, today residential CFL market penetration exceeds that in many industrialised economies, ranking Hungary among the eight countries in Europe with the highest penetration rates. Since substantial efforts have been invested international to promote the proliferation of CFLs often with limited results, the understanding of the Hungarian success can bring us closer to an effective planning of Programmes and policies designed to transform the markets of energy-efficient technologies around the world.