The challenges associated with today's green transition echo dynamics during past energy revolutions. Improvements in energy efficiency and sobriety can be part of a decarbonization strategy but with muted impact. An effective and credible climate policy must be chiefly targeted at accelerating...

The purpose of this paper is to identify the changes in the impact of energy shocks on economic activity � with an interest in assessing if an economy�s vulnerability and resilience to shocks improved with economic development. Using data on the United Kingdom over the last three...

This paper briefly highlights some of the most influential ideas in the literature on the economics of energy and (energy-related) climate change. This paper will use bibliometric evidence to examine the trends in related research over the last forty years, and analyse the explosion in energy...

The aims of SEEC’s energy demand forecast’s (1993-2000) are to present the underlying determinants of fuel consumption, such as economic activity and prices; develop a series of simple yet reliable sectoral models of energy demand, which incorporate recent modelling developments; provide...

The purpose of this paper is to estimate trends in income and price elasticities and to offer insights for the future growth in transport use, with particular emphasis on the impact of energy and technological transitions. The results indicate that income and price elasticities of passenger...

The provision of artificial light was revolutionised by a series of discontinuous innovations in lighting appliances, fuels, infrastructures and institutions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Britain, the real price of lighting fell dramatically (3,000-fold between 1800 and 2000)...