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The only way resources can be efficiently allocated in our market system is if prices of resources, goods, and services properly reflect their true value to society. However, because of (a) imperfections in the pricing mechanisms that currently influence private-sector decision making; (b) the...
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For the past three years (1989, 1990, and 1991), all US electric utilities that sell more than 120 GWh/year have been required to report to the Energy Information Administration data on their demand-side management (DSM) programs. These data provide a rich and uniquely comprehensive picture of...
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, so that strategic energy-efficiency investments can be planned and implemented. A key element of Voluntary Agreements is … that they focus the attention of all actors on energy efficiency or emission reduction goals. Internationally, Voluntary … Agreements have been shown to result in increased energy efficiency, with the more successful programs even doubling autonomous …
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Compact fluorescent technologies have been steadily improving. There has been increased interest in utilizing compact fluorescents to provide cost-effective energy savings for electric utilities in the residential sector. Several utilities in the United States have already distributed compact...
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efficiency frequently cited in the literature are not market failures in the conventional sense and are thus irrelevant for …
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impacts of energy efficiency increases over a sample population of consumers to quantify the proportion of households having … derive the incremental change in retail prices associated with increased manufacturing costs for improving energy efficiency. …
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This study determines the extent to which it is possible to develop monetary estimates of the marginal social cost of fuels, using natural gas to test a methodology that could be applied to other fuels. This requires review of previous estimates of both market and nonmarket costs to the extent...
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efficiency. A Consumer Analysis at two levels: national aggregate impacts, and impacts on individuals. The national aggregate …
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dryers. The impact of minimum efficiency standards on electricity use over the time period from 1995--2010 is estimated. The … energy efficiency standards that would take effect in 1995. The results of the study described above will be presented and …
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Industrial Sector). The workshop has helped to layout the needs and challenges to include policy more explicitly in energy-efficiency … modules and models, to increase transparency and reduce complexity. There is a strong need to improve the efficiency of data …
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