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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: In this paper , a framework for the PSS-rebound effect from a life cycle perspective is proposed to identify types of rebound effects, their causes and their period of occurrences within the product's life cycle based on three sustainability characteristics.
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11 Jul 2016
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the influence of occupant behavior on the energy savings for some retrofitted Italian residential representative buildings and investigated the elasticity of the energy consumption in function of occupancy parameters before and after the application of high energy efficiency improvements.
Abstract: Though the energy consumption of buildings is supposed to decrease after a retrofit, several studies show that the energy performance does not increase as much as it would be expected and that a significant gap between the estimated and the real energy savings - called "rebound effect" - occurs. This deviation can partly depend on the model used for the energy performance evaluation, but changes in the occupants' behavior after a thermal retrofit of an existing dwelling are also revealed. The paper examines the influences of occupant behavior on the energy savings for some retrofitted Italian residential representative buildings. Some typical use patterns are defined according to statistics of the national census of population and dwellings and the expectations of the building occupants are specified before and after the retrofit. The main objective is to investigate the elasticity of the energy consumption in function of the occupancy parameters before and after the application of high energy efficiency improvements. The analysis is carried out by means of a simplified energy performance assessment model. The outcomes of this study consist in defining synthetic indicators for the quantitative assessment of the rebound effect.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the degree to which these socioeconomic factors were incorporated into BSEMs, and how this affects their validity and ability to devise effective building energy codes, and propose a novel BSEM, where energy codes are reverse-engineered from climate change targets and consider the sector's expansion.
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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors take the iron and steel industry as the research object, which is a large energy consumption sector in China, and the improved technique is used to estimate the energy rebound effect.
Abstract: The energy rebound effect may weaken the impact of energy efficiency improvement on energy consumption. Therefore, the rebound effect is an important consideration in energy and environmental policies. This study takes the iron and steel industry as the research object, which is a large energy consumption sector in China, and the improved technique is used to estimate the energy rebound effect. The study constructs the dynamic energy efficiency utilizing provincial data from 2000 to 2019. The energy rebound effect from factor substitution and output expansion is then calculated. The research further discusses regional differences in the energy rebound effect. The results indicate that the technical progress of the iron and steel industry promotes energy efficiency improvements. The eastern region shows the best energy efficiency performance, followed by the central area, and the western region performs the worst in energy efficiency. The industrial energy rebound effect is 0.4297, which partially offsets the energy reduction caused by energy efficiency improvements. Factor substitution and output growth produce the industrial energy rebound effect. Furthermore, the rebound effect exhibits distinct geographical features. The policy suggestions are finally proposed to mitigate the industrial rebound effect and achieve energy and carbon reductions.
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TL;DR: In this article , the internal influencing mechanism between information and communication technology (ICT) and energy consumption has been investigated from both theoretical and practical perspectives, and the authors compared and analyzed the models, methods, and data in existing studies from the aspects of measurement of ICT's direct energy consumption, empirical research on ICT, and discussions on rebound effects.
Abstract: With the rapid development of digital technologies based on information and communication technology (ICT), some studies suggest that the development of the digital economy is bound to have a significant impact on energy consumption. There are also studies demonstrating from different perspectives that ICT plays an important role in improving energy efficiency. Then, will the rapid development of the digital economy lead to a sharp increase in energy demand (electricity demand), thus affecting China’s socio-economic transition to green and low-carbon development? To this end, it is of great practical significance to explore the relationship between the digital economy and energy consumption from theoretical and practical perspectives. Focusing on the issue of ICT and its impacts on energy consumption, this paper clarifies the internal influencing mechanism between ICT and energy consumption. On this basis, this paper compares and analyzes the models, methods, and data in existing studies from the aspects of measurement of ICT’s direct energy consumption, empirical research on ICT and energy consumption, and discussions on rebound effects. After a brief summary, this paper identifies their shortcomings and explores future research directions.
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