Economic structure and energy savings from energy efficiency in households

Vivanco, David Font; Ventosa, Ignasi Puig

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.08.023

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“…This decreasing trend could be because they have access to more efficient housing and appliances, improving energy efficiency [16 -18]. However, energy consumed per capita is affected by several and different factors [19] that are not assessed. For this reason, authors cannot provide a strong conclusion regarding the trends of this indicator in the last decades.…”

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Heating and cooling energy trends and drivers in Europe

Serrano

Ürge-Vorsatz

Barreneche

et al. 2017

Energy

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This paper aims to complete and complement the information available on the past trends of thermal energy consumption in residential buildings and its drivers for Europe, as a continent and for the different countries. This paper follows the drivers identified in a previous one for the heating and cooling energy consumption, decomposing this energy demand into key drivers based on a Kaya identity approach: number of households, persons per household, floor space per capita and specific energy consumption for residential heating and cooling. Results show that all drivers did follow a consistent trend at global, regional and country level during the studied period of time, but the heating and cooling energy consumption did not follow the same trend if it was considered at global, regional or country level, showing that the energy consumption is very much influenced by all its drivers and does not follow the same trend as the specific energy consumption. Moreover, similar trends for each indicator can be found when evaluated at country or regional level, therefore as expected when aggregating data trends can be seen but details and particularities (both for the different countries and for the different studied years) are lost.

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Heating and cooling energy trends and drivers in Europe

Serrano

Ürge-Vorsatz

Barreneche

et al. 2017

Energy

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“…Increases in the overall economic productivity are usually also included in this typology, although they have other implications. Some indirect rebound effect literature has found the link between the energy efficiency improvements and the overall energy consumption through the so-called 're-spending' effect Freire-González 2011;Azevedo 2013a, 2013b;Freire-González et al 2017). This is a straightforward way to reallocate monetary savings from efficiency improvements and obtain the additional increase of energy needed to produce the goods and services demanded.…”

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The influence of energy efficiency on other natural resources use: An input-output perspective

Vivanco

2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Energy efficiency improvements reduce the costs of energy services, and under some circumstances, increase the available income. This generates an additional increase of consumption of goods and services that need additional energy to be produced, distributed and consumed. This effect is known as indirect rebound effect. However, beyond this additional increase of global energy consumption, there is also a variation of the use of other resources for the same reason. So, after an energy efficiency improvement there is an indirect effect on other resources use that have to be considered. This is effect, named as direct and indirect cross rebound effect is not considered by academia nor policy-making when designing and implementing energy policies. This research shows a methodology to estimate this effect, and provides estimates for Spain. Results show that an energy efficiency could increase the use of minerals and water, while reducing the use of energy, fossil fuels and metal ores. These reductions, however, are lower than the expected ones from an input-output perspective, leading to positive direct and indirect cross rebound effects.

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“…Here, as shown in Fig. 3 and explained as follows, we provide a classification of the different types of price-induced rebound effect following the influential works of Greening et al (2000), Sorrell (2007), Azevedo (2014) and Freire-González et al (2017).…”

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Are we moving toward an energy-efficient low-carbon economy? An input–output LMDI decomposition of CO$$_{2}$$ emissions for Spain and the EU28

Serrano-Puente

2021

SERIEs

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Spain is on a path toward the decarbonization of the economy. This is mainly due to structural changes in the economy, where less energy-intensive sectors are gaining more relevance, and due to a higher use of less carbon-intensive primary energy products. This decarbonization trend is in fact more accentuated than that observed in the EU28, but there is still much to be done in order to reverse the huge increases in emissions that occurred in Spain prior to the 2007 crisis. The technical energy efficiency is improving in the Spanish economy at a higher rate than in the EU28, although all these gains are offset by the losses that the country suffers due to the inefficient use of the energy equipment. There is an installed energy infrastructure (in the energy-consumer side) in the Spanish economy that is not working at its maximum rated capacity, but which has very high fixed energy costs that reduce the observed energy efficiency and puts at risk the achievement of the emissions and energy consumption targets set by the European institutions. We arrive to these findings by developing a hybrid decomposition approach called input–output logarithmic mean Divisia index (IO-LMDI) decomposition method. With this methodological approach, we can provide an allocation diagram scheme for assigning the responsibility of primary energy requirements and carbon-dioxide emissions to the end-use sectors, including both economic and non-productive sectors. In addition, we analyze more potential influencing factors than those typically examined, we proceed in a way that reconciles energy intensity and energy efficiency metrics, and we are able to distinguish between technical and observed end-use energy efficiency taking into account potential rebound effects and other factors.

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Economic structure and energy savings from energy efficiency in households

Cited by 50 publications

References 62 publications

Heating and cooling energy trends and drivers in Europe

Heating and cooling energy trends and drivers in Europe

The influence of energy efficiency on other natural resources use: An input-output perspective

Are we moving toward an energy-efficient low-carbon economy? An input–output LMDI decomposition of CO$$_{2}$$ emissions for Spain and the EU28

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