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Rebound effect (conservation)
About: Rebound effect (conservation) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 773 publications have been published within this topic receiving 25741 citations.
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TL;DR: This comment does not find a valid correction or modification to the original model of the economy-wide energy rebound effect, because the criticism logic does not originate from the corresponding mechanism in Shao et al. (2014), and their estimation formula has a different benchmark with the authors'.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate one of the recent energy-efficiency programs in Ethiopia, which distributed 350,000 compact fluorescent lamp bulbs free of charge, and find that the majority of the program beneficiaries were low-volume customers, mostly from among the poor.
Abstract: Electricity infrastructure is one of the most important development challenges in Africa. While more resources are clearly needed to invest in new capacities, it is also important to promote energy efficiency and manage the increasing demand for power. This paper evaluates one of the recent energy-efficiency programs in Ethiopia, which distributed 350,000 compact fluorescent lamp bulbs free of charge. The impact related to this first phase is estimated at about 45 to 50 kilowatt hours per customer per month, or about 13.3 megawatts of energy savings in total. The overall impact of the compact fluorescent lamp bulb programs, thanks to which more than 5 million bulbs were distributed, could be significantly larger. The paper also finds that the majority of the program beneficiaries were low-volume customers -- mostly from among the poor -- although the program was not targeted. In addition, the analysis determines the distributional effect of the program: the energy savings relative to the underlying energy consumption were larger for the poor. The evidence also supports a rebound effect. About 20 percent of the initial energy savings disappeared within 18 months of the program's completion.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the heterogeneity of the rebound effect in private transport using both panel estimation and quantile-regression methods on household travel diary data collected in Germany between 1997 and 2009.
Abstract: Rebound effects measure the behaviorally induced off set in the reduction of energy consumption following efficiency improvements. Using both panel estimation and quantile-regression methods on household travel diary data collected in Germany between 1997 and 2009, this study investigates the heterogeneity of the rebound effect in private transport. With the average rebound effect being in the range of 57% to 62%, our results are in line with a recent German study by FRONDEL, PETERS, and VANCE (2008), but are substantially larger than those obtained from other studies. Furthermore, our quantile-regression results indicate that the magnitude of estimated fuel price elasticities – from which rebound effects can be derived – depends inversely on the household’s driving intensity: Households with low vehicle mileage exhibit fuel price elasticities, and hence rebound effects, that are significantly larger than those for households with high vehicle mileage.
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TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper used the Shephard energy distance function to measure energy efficiency and analyzed the effect of marketization on the rebound effect with the threshold model, concluding that the mining sector's average rebound effect is 46.4%.
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors analyzed changes in residential gas consumption five years before and after the adoption of energy efficiency measures, and found that the energy efficiency interventions involving the installation of new heating-related insulation equipment, such as loft insulation and cavity walls, supported by energy efficiency programmes in England and Wales between 2005 and 2017.
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