Public policy analysis of energy efficiency and load management in changing electricity businesses

Vine, Edward; Hamrin, Jan; Eyre, Nick; Crossley, David; Maloney, Michelle; Watt, Greg

doi:10.1016/s0301-4215(02)00071-x

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“…They highlight the lack of individuals motivated by environmental values; lack of expertise and competences to identify the inefficiencies; incomplete markets for energy efficiency; perception of being already efficient; and the lack of information about energy efficiency and renewable energy costs, benefits, geographic resources and opportunities. All these obstacles can be treated as institutional and behavioral barriers (Golove, Eto 1996, Sorrell et al 2000, Vine et al 2003. The manifestations of such barriers are difficult to measure, that's why all of the above mentioned papers present the results of case studies or expert analysis and do not provide a quantitative information that helps to find a functional dependence of energy efficiency on institutional and behavioral factors.…”

Section: Barriers To Energy-efficiencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Regional Energy Efficiency Programs in Russia: The Factors of Success

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Ratner

2016

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Abstract. In this paper, we study the reasons for extremely high difference in energy intensity of the Russian regions under different methodological approaches. We compare the most popular measures of state's energy efficiency policy in Russia with best world practices and investigate the factors of their effectiveness. We test the hypothesis that the level of development of regional innovation system determines how the regional economy reacts to the removal of market barriers to energy efficiency. Our findings reveal that in the face of rising electricity prices, regions with well-developed regional innovation systems induce technical and other kinds of innovation in the field of energy efficiency, while other regions are not able to reduce their energy intensity. The main practical implementation of the study is that market measures for improvement of energy efficiency do not work in the regions with underdeveloped innovation systems.

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Section: Barriers To Energy-efficiencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Regional Energy Efficiency Programs in Russia: The Factors of Success

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Ratner

2016

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“…While these policies and programmes vary, there have been several attempts to develop universal definitions and classifications for them. Based on a review of classifications available (Crossley et al 1999, EFA 2002, Vine et al 2003, Wuppertal Institute 2002, IEA 1997, Carbon Trust 2005, Köppel and Ürge-Vorsatz 2007, Table 7 arranges policies according to their typology and the stakeholders they impact upon. As Table 7 attests, the majority of policies are orientated on the final energy users in buildings, although there are also many tools to stimulate energy companies (mostly public utilities) to introduce efficiency measures in buildings, mostly households.…”

Section: Typology Of Policy Tools Used To Promote Energy Efficiency Imentioning

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Methodologies for Assessment of Building's Energy Efficiency and Conservation: A Policy-Maker View

Novikova

2010

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractRecent global peer-review reports have concluded on importance of buildings in tacking the energy security and climate change challenges. To integrate the buildings energy efficiency into the policy agenda, significant research efforts have been recently done. More specifically, the public domain provides a bulk of literature on the application of buildings-related efficiency technologies and behavioural patterns, barriers to penetration of these practices, policies to overcome these barriers. From the policy-making perspective it is useful to understand how far our understanding of building energy efficiency goes and the approaches and methodologies are behind such assessment.This paper aims to address this issue; it describes the knowledge on building assessment, from the policy-maker standpoint. More specifically, the paper describes the key approaches to assess technological and non-technological potentials, then it reviews the metrics for setting political ambitions to explore these opportunities; further, it studies barriers to realisation of these ambitions and policies to overcome them. Finally, it reviews the approaches to policy impact evaluation and ways to diagnose the reasons for a particular level of policy performance. The paper concludes with an identification of gaps in knowledge which constrain successful realisation of the energy efficiency potential in buildings.

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“…Restructuring did not eliminate most of the externalities and other market failures that energy-efficiency programs were intended to address. These externalities and other market failures provided the rationale for continued support of energy-efficiency programs after restructuring (Blumstein et al, 1980;Golove and Eto, 1996;Vine et al, 2003).…”

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confidence: 99%