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"Neighbors as competitors" or "neighbors as partners" : how does market segmentation affect regional energy efficiency in China?
Nie, Liang; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2019
Existing studies have focused on the negative impact of inefficient resource allocation on energy performance in China … impact of market segmentation on China's energy efficiency. The results show that although energy efficiency in the eastern … indicates that market segmentation is negative to China's energy efficiency significantly. This finding remains robust even if …
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Assessing the energy-efficiency gap
Gererden, Todd D.; Newell, Richard G.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2015
Energy-efficient technologies offer considerable promise for reducing the financial costs and environmental damages associated with energy use, but these technologies appear not to be adopted by consumers and businesses to the degree that would apparently be justified, even on a purely financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513986
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Low carbon pathways
Gupta, Himanshu - 2015
climate fronts. In the wake of the upcoming COP-21 talks at Paris and the already announced US-China agreement on peaking of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011287039
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Technological change, fuel efficiency and carbon intensity in electricity generation : a cross-country empirical study
Verdolini, Elena; Johnstone, Nick; Hašcic, Ivan - 2011
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the determinants of energy efficiency in fossil fuel electricity generation across 28 OECD countries over the period 1981-2006, with particular attention to the role played by technological development and the availability of energy efficient...
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Energy efficiency and industrial output : the case of the iron and steel industry
Flues, Florens; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G.; Vögele, Stefan - 2013
The iron and steel industry is one of the most carbon emitting and energy consuming sectors in Europe. At the same time this sector is of high economic importance for the European Union. Therefore, while public environmental and energy policies target this sector, there is political concern that...
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European energy efficiency and decarbonization strategies beyond 2030 : a sectoral multi-model decomposition
Förster, Hannah; Schumacher, Katja; De Cian, Enrica; … - 2014
Energy efficiency and decarbonization are important elements of climate change mitigation. We draw on European mitigation scenarios from the EMF28 modeling exercise to decompose economy-wide and sectoral emissions into their main components. We utilize the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI)...
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Technology invention and diffusion in residential energy consumption : a stochastic frontier approach
Marin, Giovanni; Palma, Alessandro - 2015
Traditional large appliances absorb a large share of residential electricity consumption and represent important targets of energy policy strategies aimed at achieving energy security. Despite being characterized by rather mature technologies, this group of appliances still offers large...
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Simple myths and basic maths about greening irrigation
Gómez, Carlos M. C.; Pérez-Blanco, Dionisio - 2015
Greening the economy is mostly about improving water governance and not only about putting the existing resource saving technical alternatives into practice. Focusing on the second and forgetting the first risks finishing with a highly efficient use of water services at the level of each...
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The rebound effect and energy efficiency policy
Gillingham, Kenneth; Rapson, David; Wagner, Gernot - 2014
What do we know about the size of the rebound effect? Should we believe claims that energy efficiency improvements lead to an increase in energy use? This paper clarifies what the rebound effect is, and provides a guide for economists and policymakers interested in its magnitude. We describe how...
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Reaping the carbon rent : abatement and overallocation profits in the European cement industry, insights from an LMDI decomposition analysis
Branger, Frédéric; Quirion, Philippe - 2014
We analyse variations of carbon emissions in the European cement industry from 1990 to 2011, at the European level (EU 27), and at the national level for six major producers (Germany, France, Spain, United Kingdom, Italy and Poland). We apply a Log-Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) method, crossing data...
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