essential basis for achieving the aims of higher overall energy efficiency and a significantly increased proportion of … recently amended the national energy law and established specific and comprehensive regulations directed at security and …

Electricity system operations are often affected by energy policies, but spatial differences in policy impacts are …

In recent years, national and global energy security has become a key political and economic issue, and the players in … this global energy game are also diversified. Corresponding to the diversified sectors and multiple components, energy … security can be studied from a number of perspectives. We will focus on the behavior of energy companies in this study …

I analyze energy-efficiency policy as a prescription of a minimum-efficiency standard for energy-using household goods … invest at all. Thus, additional to and different from rebound effects, energy-efficiency policy may have unintended …, and reduces energy demand. More stringent policy is shown to be less effective or even counterproductive. For the case of …

In this paper, we review the state-of-the-art and common practice of energy and climate modeling vis-a-vis the rebound … literature. In particular, we study how energy system and economy wide models include and quantify rebound effects - the gap … between actual and expected saving or the behavioral adjustment in response to an energy efficiency improvement, in terms of …

There is a growing body of literature mentioning the slow pace of energy technological progress as compared to other … technologies like information technology (IT), but the reasons why energy sector is perplexed by slow innovation remain unexplained … the mechanism that underlies the slow progress of energy technological innovation. We show that in decentralized market …

Real time information feedback combined with various pricing schemes has been found to reduce residential energy … improvements in energy savings when comparing monthly and bi-monthly billing treatments. These findings suggest that increasing …