Free riders definition

Free riders means those program participants who would have done what an energy efficiency program intends to promote even without the program.
Free riders means program participants who would have implemented energy efficiency measures or practices even without the program.
Free riders means a Program Customer who would have installed Program Measures in the absence of the Program.

Examples of Free riders in a sentence

  • Free riders and free drivers will be captured implicitly on a net basis through this approach to counting adoption of units.

  • Free riders would be those who do not sign up to the voluntary agreement but benefit from effects without paying for them.

  • Moreover, this pattern is almost the same in the two versions of the game: Free riders are punished irrespective of whether there are future rewards for the punisher.

  • State Motor Vehicle Records (MVRs) will be used as the source for verifying driver history.

  • Free riders can be total, in which the participant’s activity would have completely replicated the program measure; partial, in which the participant’s activity would have partially replicated the program measure; or deferred, in which the participant’s activity would have completely replicated the program measure, but at a time after the time the program measure was implemented.

  • Free riders would accept higher wages in a gift exchange model and do nothing to improve the performance of the firm.

  • Free riders and free drivers are not addressed in these Protocols.

  • Dishwasher NTG/Free-rider Findings Utility Program Participation Year% Free- riders (FR)NTG (1-FR) SDGE3024200670.4%0.30200773.8%0.26200879.8%0.20Total Weighted by Year75.6%0.25Therm Weighted by Therm Savings76.1%0.24 PGE2000200671.3%0.29200779.9%0.202008NANATotal Weighted by YearNANA SCG3517200683.2%0.17200778.5%0.222008NANATotal Weighted by YearNANA SPILLOVER FINDINGSTable 51 shows participants in SDGE3024 who reported the purchase of additional energy efficient measures without any utility assistance.

  • Free riders are program participants who would have taken the program’s intended action, even in the absence of the program.

  • Free riders are defined as “program participants who would have replaced their toilets within 12 months of the time they did even if the program did not exist.” The results show free riders from the rebate programs of Contra Costa Water District, and Municipal Water District of Southern California to be 60.1% and 62.5% respectively.

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