Energy efficiency policy

Energy efficiency policy is a good example. While generally aimed at... 

This year s conference, located in the Southeast region of the United States, wiU explore how energy efficiency policies and practices are making a difference for businesses, in municipalities and internationally, as governments optimize efficiency to increase economic security and universal access to energy efficiency. 

Gillingham, K., R. Newell, and K. Palmer. 2006. Energy efficiency policies A retrospective examination. Annual Review of Environment and Resource Management 31 161-192. 

Further incentives to use energy-efficient motors are provided by various cost rebate programs offered by utilities based on norsepower rating and efficiency level. Another factor that will have a significant impact is the Energy Policy Act of 1992, in which the U.S. Congress established limits on the lowest level of nominal efficiency that certain classes of motors of standard design can have after 1997. 

Research done by experts in the field as well as in laboratories has helped them understand the relationship between lAQ, ventilation, and energy. More research is needed to link specific health symptoms with exposure to specific or a group of pollutants. The policy challenge will be to raise awareness of indoor air quality so that healthy, comfortable environments can be provided by energy efficient technology. 

This review adopts the broad perspective, recognizing that the primai y policy mechanisms applied to improve energy efficiency—minimum efficiency standards, incentive programs, normative and informative labeling progi ams, and technology-driven market forces—can address a vei"y wide variety of products. 

Each of these products is different each uses a different technology, is subject to different market forces, different production characteristics, distribution practices, and pricing systems. Yet, the dominant trends in energy efficiency, and in the policies used to affect it, show rcniarkablc siniilarity across end uses. 

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The low rate of 1 % annual energy-efficiency improvement over the last 35 years raises more questions. What are the major obstacles and market imperfections that have to be addressed by policy measures in order to speed up the realisation of energy and material efficiency potentials Since obstacles and market imperfections have been the object of study for a long time (IPCC, 2001), are there any additional concepts of motivation or opportunities which have not yet been applied but which are likely to speed up activities and markets for realising energy efficiency options ... 

For the first time, I have the impression that energy-efficiency potentials are being clearly recognised and adequately addressed by the Action Plan for Energy Efficiency of the European Commission (Commission of the European Communities, 2006). This is a policy programme that supports energy-policy objectives (low energy costs,... 

Jakob, M. and Madlener, R. (2004). Riding down the experience curve for energy-efficient building envelopes the Swiss case for 1970-2020. International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy (Special Issue on Experience Curves), 2 (1-2), 153-178. 

Dr Eberhard Jochem is Professor Emeritus for Economics and Energy Economics at the Centre of Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE) at ETH Zurich, which he founded in 1999. He has been senior executive at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI), Karlsruhe, Germany, since 2000. He is an internationally acknowledged expert in technical, socioeconomic and policy research, mainly in the field of energy efficiency and climate change. 

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