Japan's Energy Conservation Initiatives

Evaluating Conservation Initiatives

Energy Conservation in Building

The building sector accumulates approximately a third of the final energy consumption. Consequently, the improvement of the energy efficiency in buildings has become an essential instrument in the energy policies to ensure the energy supply in the mid to long term moreover is the most cost-effective strategy available for reducing carbon dioxide emissions This paper is studying the main objecti...

International Conservation Organizations and the Fate of Local Tropical Forest Conservation Initiatives

Several international conservation organizations (ICOs) created in the developed world to promote conservation in the tropics are now extremely outspoken and powerful, due in large measure to their access to capital. We acknowledge that ICOs have been critical stakeholders in shaping international environmental policies. We also recognize that there have been successful collaborations between I...

Energy Conservation for Servers

Introduction Power management has been thoroughly studied for applications running on battery-powered platforms [3,5]. We take the position that power management is equally important for server environments, where high performance and reliability have traditionally been the most important design and evaluation factors. This position breaks with tradition and argues for considering energy consum...

Motivating energy suppliers to promote energy conservation

We examine the design of regulatory policy to induce electric utilities to deliver the surplus-maximizing level of energy efficiency services, e∗. The rebound effect (whereby increased energy efficiency stimulates the demand for energy) typically renders revenue decoupling insufficient in this regard. The additional financial incentive required to induce e∗ is shown to vary with such factors as...