Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/48653 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Frankfurt School - Working Paper Series No. 168
Publisher: 
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
China's energy-service companies (ESCOs) have developed only modestly despite favorable political and market conditions. We argue that with sophisticated market institutions still evolving in China, trust-based relations between ESCOs and energy customers are essential for successful implementation of energy efficiency projects. Chinese ESCOs, who are predominantly small and private enterprises, perform poorly in terms of trust-building because they are disembedded from local business, social, and political networks. We conclude that in the current institutional setting, the ESCO model based on market relations has serious limitations and is unlikely to lead to large-scale implementation of energy efficiency projects in China.
Subjects: 
energy policies
energy service companies (ESCO)
social networks
trust
China
JEL: 
Q40
Q48
O53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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