This paper evaluates the impact of a policy that was implemented to reduce the energy intensity of firms in some manufacturing sectors in India, on the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of firms and on its components, scale efficiency and technical change. Using plant-level panel data on...

This paper evaluates the extent with which Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) reflect observed energy used for heating. We use high-frequency smart thermostat panel data in combination with building characteristics and hourly weather information. We exploit variations in boiler operation in...

Until now, studies on the environmental effect of foreign investment opening (FIO) in service sector are still blank. Actually, development of service sector is significant force for promoting economic modernization for the countries, thus development of service sector is extremely significant...

Market-based instruments such as white certificates offer the potential to increase efficiency gains, reduce primary energy consumption and make energy systems more resilient. The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the white certificate scheme through a case study analysis. In...

In the modern smart home, smart meters and Internet of Things have been massively deployed toreplace traditional analogue meters. It digitalizes the data collection and the meter readings. The data can be wirelessly transmitted that significantly reduces manual works. However, the community of...

How do private consumers adapt to changes to energy prices, in particular do they invest in energy-saving measures? We study this question in the context of the rapid rise in energy prices caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the demand for energy efficiency in the UK...

This paper examines the potential net benefit of demand-side management for climate-friendly electricity production systems: how will alternative load profiles impact total system cost of electricity generation? To answer this question, we have constructed an electricity system for Europe where...

Sustainable energy consumption in household is linked to energy saving and the use of renewable energy sources. These are also the main measures of GHG emission reduction linked to energy consumption. There is a huge GHG emission reduction potential linked to energy consumption in households as...

Rental housing where tenants are responsible for their own energy bills but landlords are responsible for energy retrofits may pose a particular challenge in achieving optimal rates of investments in energy efficiency. In this paper, we investigate the severity of this split-incentive problem in...

Improvements in energy efficiency can help facing the on-going climate and energy crises, yet the energy intensity of economic activities at the global level in recent years has decreased more slowly than it is required to achieve climate goals. Based on this premise, the paper builds a...

Improving environmental performance of energy- and carbon-intensive sectors represented by iron and steel (IS) is of utmost importance to address the challenges of resource depletion and climate change worldwide. This article adopts a global-super-Epsilon-Based Measure (EBM) model with...

This study presents a methodology for evaluating energy efficiency projects carried out in low-income communities in the scope of the largest Brazilian Energy Efficiency Program, known as PEE. The methodology is based on a scoring system to ranking projects performance in six energy efficiency...

We examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the formation of energy conservation routines. To do so, we use data from two nationwide surveys of German households, conducted before and during the pandemic. Across the two survey waves, we document a significant increase in the likelihood...

Overall energy efficiency is crucial for green production and carbon dioxide emission, especially for energy-intensive industries such as steel making. To deal with unrelated parallel machine scheduling for steelmaking-continuous casting that is the bottleneck and energy-intensive process, this...

We use a randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh to test three types of non-price energy conservation strategies influencing residential energy consumption of households: (i) advice on electricity conservation methods (knowledge treatment); (ii) (median) electricity consumption of others in...

Die Energie- und CO2-Einsparungen im Gebäudesektor in Deutschland bleiben weit hinter den Zielen zurück: der Wohngebäudebestand ist nur unzureichend energetisch saniert, die Wärmeerzeugung von fossilen Energieträgern abhängig und die Sanierungsaktivität ist seit Jahren auf einem zu...

Real-time pricing demand response programs (RTP-DRPs) are practical measures that ensure the end user’s profitability from using electricity by adjusting the supply and demand equilibrium without activating costly solutions. This study explores the potential of RTP-DRPs by developing and...

Korea has maintained highly energy and resource-dependent industries since the late 1970s after turning from light industries such as the textile industry, to heavy industries such as shipbuilding, iron and steel, petrochemical and automobile as the nation’s major industries. Inevitably,...

Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study how fuel price changes affect cost-minimizing choices by airlines that have implications for the extent of this externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily...

Reduced electricity demand through the implementation of an energy efficiency policy is a central pillar of the Malaysian government’s energy strategy. Energy efficiency first emerged as part of Malaysia’s energy policy agenda in 1979 but only came into force during the 2000s. Initially, it...

Understanding how employees act at work to save energy and the meaning for sustainability and environmental protection is essential. This research aimed to analyze the influences of Subjective Norms (SN), Descriptive Norms (DN), and Environmental Knowledge (EK) on employees' intention to save...

Using data on 10,769 firms across 22 emerging markets, we show that both credit constraints and weak green management hold back corporate investment in green technologies embodied in new machinery, equipment and vehicles. In contrast, investment in measures to explicitly reduce emissions and...

Die Energie- und CO2-Einsparungen im Gebäudesektor in Deutschland bleiben weit hinter den Zielen zurück: der Wohngebäudebestand ist nur unzureichend energetisch saniert, die Wärmeerzeugung von fossilen Energieträgern abhängig und die Sanierungsaktivität ist seit Jahren auf einem zu...

We use an experiment to test whether consumers optimally acquire information on energy costs in appliance markets where, like many contexts, consumers are poorly informed and make mistakes despite freely available information. To test for optimal information acquisition we compare the average...

This paper studies the effects of U.S. energy shocks on international economic activity and the world oil market. The analysis uses a set of factor-augmented vector autoregressions to identify and compare the impact of unanticipated changes in U.S. energy efficiency and U.S. oil supply over...

The flexibilization of electricity demand and production becomes increasingly important in energy systems with rising shares of fluctuating renewable electricity production. Power-to-heat and cogeneration units, combined with thermal storages, are considered as promising technologies for the...

This paper aims to research the organizational factors influencing the implementation of energy efficiency measures in companies. The analysis was performed on a sample of companies from Serbia included in the World Bank Enterprise Survey. The raw data collected by the World Bank were utilized...

How can information substitute or complement financial incentives such as Pigouvian subsidies? We answer this question in a large-scale field experiment that cross-randomizes energy efficiency subsidies with information about the financial savings of LED lighting. Information has two effects: It...

How do private consumers adapt to changes to energy prices, in particular do they invest in energy-saving measures? We study this question in the context of the rapid rise in energy prices caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the demand for energy efficiency in the UK...