legislation and intentions of entrepreneurs to increase their firms’ material and energy efficiency in the next two years … investments in resource efficiency improvements. Using data covering small and medium-sized enterprises from 36 countries from … resource efficiency investments and who follow a strategy which goes beyond compliance are more likely to intend material and …

The efficiency of electricity generation in hard coal fired power plants varies considerably from country to country … abundance of hard coal or relatively low costs of extraction show smaller degrees of efficiency than countries with poor … coal abundance or the accessibility of hard coal, respectively, the hard coal price, the level of foreign direct investment …

energy efficiency improvement at households. In particular if households have a flexible demand structure, rebound can erode … large parts of efficiency increases. Household habits have an initial detrimental effect on rebound. They limit the ability … not affect rebound. In isolation, the direct and indirect rebound effect of the efficiency shock are positive, but direct …

efficiency aspects when designing business models such as product service systems (PSS) allows incentivizing such efficiency … increases in business relationships. Particularly PSS are able to increase resource efficiency by intensifying product use or … decoupling volume from profitability by allowing the provider to participate in efficiency gains. Yet, the diffusion of PSS in …

What do we know about the size of the rebound effect? Should we believe claims that energy efficiency improvements lead … exogenous increase in energy efficiency, while others examine the effects of a particular energy efficiency policy-a distinction … the energy efficiency rebound, and discuss areas where estimation is extraordinarily difficult. Along these lines, we …

Energy efficiency provides a substantial opportunity to tackle increasing greenhouse gas emissions. However, in … motivation of utilities to invest in energy efficiency. This paper therefore investigates the relation between the regulatory … demand and efficiency in the U.S. To address the research question at hand, we follow recent developments in energy demand …

. The importance of improving the energy efficiency of cooling systems is increasing. This paper introduces a series of … concepts and methods related to cooling systems and their energy efficiency, including the working principle of cooling systems … and methods for evaluating their energy efficiency, as well as technologies and approaches to improve energy efficiency …