Energy efficiency and consumption — the rebound effect — a survey
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...5.2 Changing practices: Increasing consumption As noted by many other scholars (e.g. Caird and Roy 2006; Frondel 2004; Greening et al. 2000; Strengers 2013), micro-generation can cause increased energy use in households....
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...Recent surveys of the literature in industrialised countries have shown that the take-back effect for residential space-heating is relatively small, on the order of 10–30%, while for lighting it may be as low as 5–20% [31,32]....
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...they buy more vehicles, and it takes energy to make vehicles) [32]....
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...sumers to spend some of their savings on more of that energy service—so energy consumption may not decline nearly as much as we would predict based on the technical potential of an intervention [31,32]....
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