the future of oil and gas in the primary energy mix, trying to explain why there is a tendency towards consensus in the …

This study develops a scenario-based model to assess the current and future trends in energy demand in Africa and … associated greenhouse gas emissions. Future energy demand is forecast on the basis of socio-economic variables such as gross … domestic product, income per capita, population, and urbanization. The Long-range Energy Alternative Planning model is applied …

In this paper, we review the state-of-the-art and common practice of energy and climate modeling vis-à-vis the rebound … literature, in particular regarding how macroeconomic energy and climate models quantify and include energy and greenhouse gas … rebound effects. First, we focus on rebound effects in models of costless energy efficiency improvement that hold other …

This paper assesses the role of energy audits in promoting energy-efficiency measures in SMEs. It benefits from the … data collected within the European Investment Bank Surveys in 2017 and 2018, involving information about energy audits and … energy-efficiency investments of some 12,500 signatures from EU28 Member States per year. Our findings suggest that energy …

The rebound effect is a well-known behavioral response whereby potential energy savings from efficiency improvements … are partially offset by increased consumption of energy services, as the marginal cost of energy services is reduced. This … improvement in the energy efficiency of a household’s appliances, but to the supply of a zero-marginal-cost perfect substitute for …

renewable energy. …