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January 2002 - January 2015
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We need to be far better in making use of the energy efficiency to its full value. To put energy efficiency first requires a fundamental rethinking that goes beyond the traditional policies. It is not enough to only make it an issue about informing customers or providing financial means but understanding the way customers think and providing differ...
Energy efficiency is a bargain for most actors. They can reduce their energy use and at the same time increase the quality of their service. This is a fact. The cost to do so is normally a small fraction of the price of energy. It would amount to huge savings for them and for the society as whole. The tragedy, however, is that it does not happen as...
This paper explores how common energy efficiency policy instruments can be repositioned to mobilize greater efficiency. The first section explains how two existing concepts-economic rationality and business perspective – are fundamental to rethinking efficiency. The second section outlines seven policy instruments and indicates their ability to imp...
Traditional neo-classic economics prevents the potential of energy efficiency to be fully realised since it does not allow energy policies to be sufficiently developed. In the most orthodox learnings it is claimed that there is no need for energy policies when there are no market failures to be cured and such failures, it is said, are rare. They ha...
Insights from behavioural economics show that decision-mak-ing is not only 'boundedly rational' but constantly biased. This also applies to industrial energy efficiency investment decision processes and has fundamental implications for the design of policy instruments but also of energy efficiency business mod-els. Starting with a short analysis of...
Energy efficiency has proven to be a hard sell. We have all the good arguments about economy and environment but in spite of this still have a huge potential that is not exploited. Partly we are to blame ourselves because we have appealed to an eco-nomic sense that we have assumed to be the overarching reason for people to act. People, however, hav...
The energy efficiency market is generally underdeveloped. The technologies exist, but the customers are left on the dark side in finding out what works for them and in despair over finding a helping and trustworthy hand. If we will ever hope for a large scale deployment of energy efficiency that comes anywhere close to the potentials calculated (an...
Since the first oil-crisis many studies examined the barriers preventing energy efficiency opportunities to be fully realised and exploited. There are several typologies and many attempts to quantify the impediment that the barriers constitute. These studies mostly end with recommendations on how these bar-riers should be eradicated, or at least lo...
Demand Side Management (DSM) was widely discussed in the 1980's as the alternative to supply side "overspending" in energy systems. In the US DSM was carefully regulated with detailed procedures for investigating cost-effectiveness, rate-impact, programme deliveries, availability for different groups of customers etc. Public Utility Commissions had...
The market is a good instrument for distribution of goods but can be a bad allocator of resources. This phrasing is just a general description of common knowledge and practice in most countries and has been better put by the Czech author and President, Vaclav Havel, in the words: “The market is a good servant but a bad master.” The possibility of i...
The article gives an overview of the technical and economic factors which have led to an increasing take-up of demand-side management in the energy market and the associated development and implementation of appropriate technologies.< >
The new view on the energy system is that it delivers energy service to end-users instead of only energy. The new view calls for least-cost solutions with regard also to the use of energy-efficient equipment. These solutions are, however, not realized automatically on the market since this is arranged for delivery of energy instead of energy servic...
SUMMARY Demand Side Management (DSM) was widely discussed in the 1980's as the alternative to supply side "overspending" in energy systems. In the US DSM was carefully regulated with detailed procedures for investigating cost-effectiveness, rate-impact, programme deliveries, availability for different groups of customers etc. Public Utility Commiss...
Creation of markets for more efficient technologies requires careful targeting of actors that have an interest in driving the process further. Such will both reduce the resources needed and make use of the actors self-interest for development and thus uphold the learning process. This is done by identifica- tion of strategic niche markets (SNM) whe...
This project was initiated to identify factors associated with the success of programs to develop markets for energy-efficiency technologies/measures or for introduction of renewable energy sources. The project addresses the design and execution of technology "Deployment Policies". It does not, however, analyze if such a policy would be preferable...