Does energy efficiency save energy? The debate and its consequences

Herring, Horace

doi:10.1016/s0306-2619(99)00030-6

Cited by 99 publications

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“…Many empirical studies have estimated the direct rebound effect, defined as the increase in the demand of an energy service after the initial cost reductions caused by an energy efficiency improvement (Herring, 1999;Nesbakken, 2001;Guertin et al, 2003;West, 2004;Frondel et al, 2007;Davis, 2007). However, fewer studies have analysed the indirect rebound effect from an empirical 5 perspective (Chitnis et al, 2012), i.e.…”

Section: In the Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although this is an irrefutable fact within a technical-engineering framework, there are doubts about its validity at other levels of analysis, such as the socioeconomic level. Indeed, there is a body of literature that provides empirical evidence for the fact that, while efficiency improvements in resource use have been continuous since early capitalism, the global consumption of resources such as energy has not stopped growing (Herring, 1999;Ayres et al, 2003;Fouquet and Pearson, 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Economic structure and energy savings from energy efficiency in households

Vivanco

Ventosa

2017

Ecological Economics

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When an energy efficiency improvement occurs at the household level, several mechanisms, grouped under the name of the rebound effect, increase the available income and consumption, increasing the total energy consumption of the economic structure. The present research analyses the links between energy efficiency improvements in households, consumption, and the economic structure in an input-output framework. We examine, from an empirical perspective, the relationship between energy efficiency improvements and the economic structure, and between the direct and the indirect rebound effect. The limits of the input-output methodology in assessing the direct and indirect rebound effect have been empirically tested with respect to efficiency improvements of electricity uses in households in Catalonia.

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Section: In the Literaturementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Economic structure and energy savings from energy efficiency in households

Vivanco

Ventosa

2017

Ecological Economics

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“…The first evaluation analyzed was proposed by Herring (1999) and is mainly focused on the amount of lamp's lumens per watt, but there remains the problem of adjusting for quality of service, for example, color of light, comfort, or speed road. In addition, the same author (Herring 2006) supports carbon taxes and combined policies of "green" electricity (generated from renewable energy sources) and energy efficiency.…”

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A review of energy efficiency label of street lighting systems

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There are very few countries that have provisions addressing the energy efficiency of the whole street lighting system, such as Spain or the Netherlands. Nevertheless, there is not an agreement about how energy efficiency must be assessed. The Spanish Government contemplates it in the Royal Decree 1890/2008 with the goal of improving energy savings and efficiency. However, this has not obtained the expected results. Nowadays, energy efficiency of this kind of systems is assessed using a label. In the case of Spain, this label only assesses one magnitude. The contributions of this paper are two evaluation systems (kiviat diagram and pie chart) which assess five magnitudes: lamps, energy efficiency index, light pollution, renewable energy contribution, and harness of the luminous flux using dimming. After that, a survey was done to study several subjects: (1) if citizens are aware about the efficiency of street lighting systems, (2) whether the sample of colors used in the label is adequate, and (3) if our proposed systems could replace the current evaluation system. Finally, the paper finishes with the conclusions of the survey.

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“…[31, p. 124-5] Today the rebound effect is intensely discussed in energy economics, management and policy [e.g. 6,[32][33][34][35] and in a general environment context [e.g. 5,9,30,36,37].…”

Section: Eco-efficiency Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%