Energy efficiency standards and innovation

Are Energy Efficiency Standards Justified?

This paper develops and parameterizes an overarching analytical framework to estimate the welfare effects of energy efficiency standards applied to automobiles and electricity-using durables. We also compare standards with sectoral and economywide pricing policies. The model captures a wide range of externalities and preexisting energy policies, and it allows for possible “misperceptions”—marke...

Energy efficiency and emissions intensity standards

We investigate the role of energy efficiency in rate-based emissions intensity standards, a particularly policy relevant consideration given the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan allows crediting of electricity savings as a means of complying with state-specific emissions standards. We show that for perfectly inelastic energy services demand, crediting efficiency measures can r...

Do Energy Efficiency Standards Increase Social Welfare ?

Application of international energy efficiency standards for energy auditing in a University buildings

This study seeks to provide insights on understanding the contemporary problems of energy efficiency in Ukrainian universities by developing a comprehensive energy efficiency management framework that encompasses its participating subjects, objects and key drivers along with suggesting its implementation mechanism and tools. Emphasis should be given that the current situation of inefficient and...

Rethinking the Energy-Efficiency Gap: Producers, Intermediaries, and Innovation

The economic justification for energy efficiency policy primarily focuses on market failures and barriers that prevent energy consumers from undertaking privately profitable investments in efficiency. These consumeroriented market imperfections are the subject of a substantial and growing body of research regarding human behaviour and economic incentives that influence the demand for energy-eff...