An Agent-Based Social Simulation Model of Belief System Change Applied to the Formation of Consumer Attitudes Towards Clean Energy Technologies

The need for an energy transition has arisen in response to a growing discrepancy between (A) what people find important or valuable in life, and (B) the performance of – or value delivered by – the physical energy system. Since the physical energy system has not changed much in recent decades, it is clear that changes in people’s values are...