the energy-efficiency gap into three categories: market failures, behavioral anomalies, and model and measurement errors …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 …

India's climate debate encompasses issues other than just energy choices and energy efficiency. It is an integrated … climate policy, all over the world. This paper outlines one such approach using the India Energy Security Scenarios-2047 tool … trajectory if low carbon energy choices are made. The paper also states the interventions in the demand and the supply sector …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the determinants of energy efficiency in fossil fuel electricity … development and the availability of energy efficient technologies in the market. This contribution is novel in three respects …: first, empirically assess the effects of different determinants of energy efficiency, which include the input mix in …

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 … producing countries, a kind of rebound effect of energy-efficiency improvements in steel production on total steel output may …

Energy efficiency and decarbonization are important elements of climate change mitigation. We draw on European …. We utilize the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) to gain insights into five effects: affluence, energy intensity …, carbon intensity, conversion efficiency, and structural change. Economy-wide analysis suggests that energy efficiency …

targets of energy policy strategies aimed at achieving energy security. Despite being characterized by rather mature … energy saving. The technical efficiency trend is modelled through a set of technology components representing both the … energy demand and inefficiency trends are both related to changes in the amount of available technology embodied in energy …

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 … exogenous increase in energy efficiency, while others examine the effects of a particular energy efficiency policy-a distinction …

trade, clinker share, alternative fuels, thermal and electric energy efficiency, and electricity decarbonisation. We find …

Improving end-use energy efficiency-that is, the energy-efficiency of individuals, households, and firms as they … consume energy-is often cited as an important element in efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. Arguments for … improving energy efficiency usually rely on the idea that energy-efficient technologies will save end users money over time and …