Several recent studies have dealt with the methodology of decomposing the change in industrial energy consumption between two years into three separate components. Each component is associated with one of the following three effects: changes in production level, product-mix, and sectoral energy...

We examine how the level of sector disaggregation, and the way industrial sectors are aggregated, influence the estimate of the effect of structural change on the growth of industrial energy consumption. If these influences are great, it would be misleading to use the results obtained for a...

Residential electricity consumption in Singapore increased at a rate of 8.8% per year between 1972 and 1990. Estimates of the long-run income and price elasticities are 1.0 and −0.35, respectively. The energy-conservation campaigns that have been launched are found to have marginal effects on...