Consumer Purchasing Behaviour towards Eco-Environment Residential Photovoltaic Solar Lighting Systems:

The present study focuses on consumer behaviour towards decision-making about residential photovoltaic (PV) technology and motivates them to adopt renewable energy sources in place of conventional resources. The study focuses on the six significant factors of customer attribute related to environmental concern which stimulate the purchase behaviour to adopt residential PV technology. Therefore, the study considers various factors of environmental concerns, retrieved from a previous literature review by the researchers. For obtaining the results, structural equation modelling (SEM) has been utilized to examine the 269 customers’ data, collected by the researchers. The result indicates that the environmental concern factors such as social influence, environmental attitude, environmental knowledge, environmental responsibility and government initiative have significant positive influence on customer intention to adopt residential PV technology. However, the factor awareness of environmental problem shows ins...