This book explores how energy efficiency is a major component in the development of sustainable real estate. Efficiency is one of the most frequently-mentioned aspects of government policies for green building design in the United States and around the world. There has been a significant amount...

This book presents an in-depth empirical analysis of consumer response to alternative policies for energy conservation. Its main focus is on innovative policy instruments that have attracted increasing attention from academics and energy conservation practitioners alike: critical peak pricing,...

Operative Belegungsplanung von Warmbreitbandstraßen -- Modellierung des Energieverbrauchs von Industrieöfen -- Entscheidungsunterstützung mittels mathematischer Modellierung und heuristischem Lösungsverfahren.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY uses an applied scientific methodology and case studies to demonstrate and support: The need for the U.S. and the world to commit to energy and resource efficiency as the central goal in investing in electric, heat, and cooling infrastructure, the huge economic opportunity for...

Introduction and Theoretical Framework -- Analysis of Existing Data: Determinants for the Adoption of Energy-Efficient Household Appliances in Germany -- Results of the SECO@Home Household Survey and Discrete Choice Analysis -- Firm Strategies and Political Instruments -- Impacts of the...

Given rising electricity consumption, coupled with finite resources, and a growing awareness surrounding sustainable energy, ICT-enabled electrical networks such as smart grids are increasingly being deployed by energy companies. One aspect of smart grids is smart meter technology (SMT), which...

Mainstreaming Environmental Finance into Financial Markets - Relevance, Potential and Obstacles -- Mainstreaming Framework Conditions for Environmental Finance - The Role of the Public Sector -- Mainstreaming Environmental Finance Markets (I) - Small-Scale Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy...

This book explains how income growth and better environmental qualities go hand in hand, and reviews the drivers and barriers to sustainable innovation on the basis of real-life cases. It discusses why innovation-based income growth reduces environmental impacts and how the huge global markets...

1. Market Solutions for Climate Change -- 2. Energy Security in the Asia-Pacific Region -- 3. Asia’s Role in the Global Economic Architecture -- 4. Energy Economics in China’s Policy-Making Plan -- 5. The Economics of The Green Industrial Revolution -- 6. The Logic of Qualitative Business...

Rahmenbedingungen des Outsourcings von Energieeffizienzmaßnahmen über Energie-Performance-Contracting und dessen Kooperationsanreize -- Agencytheoretische Einordnung der Anreizproblematik als Double Moral Hazard -- Anreizanalyse möglicher Vertragsmodelle und Bestimmung anreizgerechter...