We present a detailed analysis of energy intensity developments across 23 service sectors in 18 OECD countries over the … period 1980-2005. We find that the shift towards a service economy has contributed to lower overall energy intensity levels … of energy efficiency improvements as the manufacturing sector. In most OECD countries actual energy intensity levels in …

This paper addresses the interplay between economic growth, energy use, change in sectoral composition and … technological change, by exploring trends in energy- and labour-productivity development for 14 OECD countries and four sectors over … considerably to macroeconomic energy-productivity growth while in other countries they partly offset energy-efficiency improvements …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level … catch up with technological leaders, in particular in terms of energy productivity. Moreover, the results show that …, and that cross-country differences of energy-productivity levels are substantially larger than of labour …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of decoupling economic growth and energy use and its various determinants by … exploring trends in energy - and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970 … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly …

This paper uses a new dataset derived from a consistent framework of national accounts to compute and evaluate energy … intensity developments across 18 OECD countries and 50 sectors over the period 1970-2005. We find that across countries energy … aggregate energy intensity dynamics. A convergence analysis reveals that only after 1995 cross-country variation in aggregate …

This paper makes use of a new dataset to investigate energy intensity developments in the Netherlands over the period … evaluation of energy intensity developments in a wide range of Service sectors. We find that across sectors energy intensity … by a shift towards a more energy-intensive industry structure, while in the Service sector about one-third of the …

This paper presents the first comprehensive Energy Outlook for Mozambique, a country that since long is one of the … poorest nations of the world but since recently also developing into a leading energy producer. We present projections until … 2030, based on a newly developed integrated long-run scenario model, new national and regional energy statistics …

Technological change plays a crucial role in realizing energy efficiency improvements and, therefore, in ameliorating … new explanations for this energy-efficiency paradox. This volume contributes to a better understanding of the interplay … between economic growth, energy use and technological change, with particular emphasis on the adoption and diffusion of energy …