Reducing energy demand and increasing energy efficiency are seen as major elements of the ongoing transformation of energy systems in multiple national and international programs like the EU 20-20-20 targets. Despite the predominately socio-economic nature of energy demand such interdisciplinary...

This work builds upon some long-term secular regularities concerning the relation between consumption of energy, technological progress and economic growth and reassesses the old question raised around forty years ago in the limits to growth discussion (Meadows et al. [1972]), namely are the...

Raforkugeiranum á Íslandi, orkunotkun, skipulagi og auðlindir sem enn eru ónýttar er lýst og gefið stutt yfirlit yfir orkuspár sem eru helstu forsendur orkuhönnunar og aflspár sem eru forsendur aflhönnunar raforkukerfa. Íslenska raforkukerfið er orkuhannað vatnsaflskerfi, sem...

Singapore is the most industrialized and urbanized country in Southeast Asia and is totally dependent on oil and natural gas imports to satisfy its energy needs. Its national energy policy framework seeks to find a balance between maintaining Singapore's competitiveness, improving energy...

From an engineering perspective, a capital good's service is energy conversion - e.g., the physical 'work' done by a machine - and can thus be measured directly by the energy consumed in production. We show important empirical advantages of our concept over traditional measures. The empirical...