Yates said she had informed McGahn about a) Flynn being interviewed and b) that he had provided bad information to the White House.
Utilities are thus able to differentiate themselves from competitors and acquire new, eco-conscious customers (Interview B).
According to Interview B, this is not surprising as the latter have only emerged quite recently and are not yet well developed.
Furthermore, renewable energy projects, especially some citizen ownership projects, have often been implemented as part of various marketing strategies (Interviews B, C, D).
Five interviewees (Interviews B, C, D, E) claim that new competitors and the so-called new renewable energies where, at the beginning, seen as threat to utilities.
Other reasons stated for the adjustment of the business model relate to the use of new technologies in order to remain competitive in the future (Interviews B, C).
Regarding the potential costs of the energy transition, the results of the interview with the representative of the public institution (Interview B) confirm the results garnered from recent publications.
In order to deal with these and other considerations affecting the electricity sector, some utilities have in fact already begun to adopt policies entailing smart metering, energy efficiency measures, or e-mobility (Interviews B, C).
Representatives of local disaster management teams stated before we conducted interviews that we would find that people do not know about the volcanic risk, and that people do not think an eruption will happen in their lifetime (interview A, 15 June 2012; interview B, 15 June 2012).
Note : a Only included those who reported family income during the interview; b Only included those who answered the statements.
