Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Executive summary -- Top lessons and findings -- Interesting findings for future consideration -- Why is energy efficiency important? -- Low, medium, and high energy intensity country characteristics -- Moving from high to medium energy intensity -- Moving...

A rather large literature argue that firms and households do not improve energy efficiency by investing in new technology despite that is cost-effective to do so. If this is the case people would be able to reduce their energy bills and spend their money on more pleasurable things. We argue that...

This paper assesses energy efficiency in Swedish industry. Using unique firm-level panel data covering the years 2001-2008, the efficiency estimates are obtained for firms in 14 industrial sectors by using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The analysis accounts for multi-output technologies where...