specific case of New Zealand. New Zealand, like other OECD economies, has aimed for energy efficiency improvements and reduced … since 2010, electricity consumption in the main New Zealand sectors is increasing. Energy conservation could play an … recommendations for more sector specific energy conservation measures and policies. …

paper also addresses the reliability of China's statistics on energy and GDP, the issue crucial to the reliability of China … ; Emissions Reductions ; Carbon Intensity Target ; Binding Emissions Caps ; Statistics on Energy and GDP ; Coal and Energy …

household residential energy usage at the national level, containing the broadest geographical coverage, and with the longest … find strong household response to energy prices, both in the short and long term. From the static models, we get estimates … small. These results are in sharp contrast to much of the literature on residential energy consumption in the United States …

exchange rate and investment environment. These unique features have enabled our model to be best equipped to evaluate the … underestimated if no consideration is given of the impacts of exchange rate and investment environment. Finally, as there is an …

We compare a range of energy efficiency policies in a durable good market subject to both energy-use externalities and …-end good. The rates should always be decreasing in energy efficiency. With per-quality subsidies, there is no such interference … product line if consumers are not too dissimilar, otherwise it should only target the low-end good. An energy tax should be …

In creating a level playing field that facilitates the deployment of renewable energy technology (RET), the traditional … energy policy regime based on eliminating RET's cost gaps versus fossil energy technology (FET) may be not sufficient …. Building on an economic model of energy technology adoption that features network externality, this paper takes an explicit …

In addition to the already present Climate and Energy package, the European Union (EU) plans to include a binding … target to reduce energy consumption. We analyze the rationales the EU invokes to justify such an overlapping and develop a … renewable energy (RE) production and reducing energy demand through energy efficiency (EE) investments. We find that although …

produce commercial shale gas will have a crucial impact on the regional gas market and on China's energy mix, as Beijing … strives to decrease reliance on imported oil and coal, while attempting to meet growing energy demand and maintain a certain …

change mitigation policy options directly related to residential energy use. We use discrete choice experiments, which are …

In this article, we look at the combination of several market-based climate and energy policies and compare them with … control policy is imperfect designed or implemented, its performance can be improved by an energy (output) tax/subsidy scheme …, where the subsidy is given only to renewable generators or for energy efficiency improvements. This combination can bring …