Energy efficiency and consumption — the rebound effect — a survey
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of some of the relevant literature from the US offers definitions and identifies sources including direct, secondary, and economy-wide sources and concludes that the range of estimates for the size of the rebound effect is very low to moderate.
About: This article is published in Energy Policy.The article was published on 2000-06-01. It has received 1867 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Rebound effect (conservation) & Energy consumption.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a residential building utilizing a custom-built GHX combining two different ground heat exchanger (GHX) types (horizontal and surface-water) was selected to be the case study for this research.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a household survey in Pakistan is used to examine drivers of more efficient compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL) adoption and the impact of CFL adoption on the demand for lighting services.
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...Past research has documented the rebound effect for a variety of products, population sets, and countries (Greening et al., 2000; Sorrell and Dimitropoulos, 2008; Sorrell et al., 2009)....
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...and economywide rebound effects, respectively (Greening et al., 2000; Sorrell and Dimitropoulos, 2008)....
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...Following Greening et al. (2000) and Sorrell and Dimitropoulos (2008), the energy efficiency (ε) of an energy service is defined as: ε ¼ S E ; ð5Þ where S is the amount of energy service produced per unit of device, such as lighting output measured by lumen-hours; and E is the amount of energy…...
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...These effects are termed indirect and economywide rebound effects, respectively (Greening et al., 2000; Sorrell and Dimitropoulos, 2008)....
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TL;DR: Based on methods of price decomposition and spatial econometrics, the authors improved the model for calculating the direct energy rebound effect employing the panel data of China's urban residents' electricity consumption for an empirical analysis.
Abstract: Based on methods of price decomposition and spatial econometrics, this paper improves the model for calculating the direct energy rebound effect employing the panel data of China’s urban residents’ electricity consumption for an empirical analysis. Results show that the global spatial correlation of urban residents’ electricity consumption has a significant positive value. The direct rebound effect and its spillover effects are 37% and 13%, respectively. Due to the spatial spillover effects, the realization of energy-saving targets in the local region depends on the implementation effect of energy efficiency policies in the surrounding areas. However, the spatial spillover effect is low, and the direct rebound effect induced by the local region is still the dominant factor affecting the implementation of energy efficiency. The direct rebound effect for urban residents’ electricity consumption eliminating the spatial spillover effect does not show a significant downward trend. The main reason is that the rapid urbanization process at the current stage has caused a rigid residents’ electricity demand and large-scale marginal consumer groups, which offsets the inhibition effect of income growth on the direct rebound effect.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed the Input Demand Function of the Stochastic Frontier Analysis to measure the energy efficiency of residential aggregate in Indonesia and adopted the dynamic panel data model to estimate the economy-wide rebound effect.
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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors present scenarios for the German heating sector including efficiency, consistency and sufficiency measures and analyse their compliance with limiting global warming to 1.5 °C. The results of the model-based analysis show that efficiency measures and renewable energy in combination with heat pump expansion are not sufficient.
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TL;DR: Deaton and Muellbauer as mentioned in this paper introduced generations of students to the economic theory of consumer behaviour and used it in applied econometrics, including consumer index numbers, household characteristics, demand, and household welfare comparisons.
Abstract: This classic text has introduced generations of students to the economic theory of consumer behaviour. Written by 2015 Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton and John Muellbauer, the book begins with a self-contained presentation of the basic theory and its use in applied econometrics. These early chapters also include elementary extensions of the theory to labour supply, durable goods, the consumption function, and rationing. The rest of the book is divided into three parts. In the first of these the authors discuss restrictions on choice and aggregation problems. The next part consists of chapters on consumer index numbers; household characteristics, demand, and household welfare comparisons; and social welfare and inequality. The last part extends the coverage of consumer behaviour to include the quality of goods and household production theory, labour supply and human capital theory, the consumption function and intertemporal choice, the demand for durable goods, and choice under uncertainty.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the indiscriminate use of mandated standards will backfire, but a mix of selective standards and reliance on prices as a restraint can be effective.
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