Seven Centuries of Energy Services: The Price and Use of Light in the United Kingdom (1300-2000)1

By R. Fouquet, P. Pearson. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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The Long Run Demand for Lighting:Elasticities and Rebound Effects in Different Phases of Economic Development (2012, methodology): “Drawing significantly on the data from Fouquet and Pearson (2006), augmented from other sources and spanning three centuries, six continents and five lighting technologies, Tsao and Waide (2010) propose that the price and income elasticity of demand for lighting are close to unity – that is, a 10%…”
The Role of Energy in the Industrial Revolution and Modern Economic Growth (2012, background): “Like Fouquet and Pearson (2006) ﬁnd for the UK, we ﬁnd that energy services grew tremendously in Sweden over time.”
Historical energy transitions: Speed, prices and system transformation ☆ (2016, background): “…competing with the primitive tallow candles), the dramatically superior qualities of the energy source and the technology compared with the incumbent and the great demand for lighting in the nineteenth century implied that the innovation chain was exceptionally rapid (Fouquet and Pearson 2006).”
The role of policy in energy transitions: lessons from the energy liberalisation era (2012, result): “ The Fouquet and Pearson (2006) paper however raises an important issue for liberalisation – its impact on longer run technological progress.”
The co-evolutionary relationship between Energy Service Companies and the UK energy system: Implications for a low-carbon transition (2013, background): “Technological innovation, greater GDP per capita and falling energy prices combined to make energy services increasingly attainable for much of the UK population during the 19th and 20th centuries (Fouquet and Pearson, 2006).”
Jevons’ Paradox revisited: The evidence for backfire from improved energy efficiency (2009, background): “A historical perspective on rebound effects is provided by Fouquet and Pearson (2006), who present some remarkable data on the price and consumption of lighting services in the UK over a period of seven centuries (Table 1).”
Impacts of rural electrification in Rwanda (2011, background): “ Referring to the historical development in Europe, FOUQUET AND PEARSON (2006) might not exaggerate in stating that the improvements in access to high quality lighting “may have changed the way we think about and sense the world – less dependent on the sun and moon, less afraid of …”
A low carbon industrial revolution? Insights and challenges from past technological and economic transformations (2012, background): “Similar arguments have been advanced in the case of efficiency improvements in lighting (Fouquet and Pearson, 2011).”
Impacts of rural electrification revisited – the African context (2016, unknown): “term impacts of psychological dimensions should not be underestimated, as it is emphasised Fouquet and Pearson’s (2006) analysis of seven centuries of lighting usage in the UK.”
Is there an environmental Kuznets curve for Spain? Fresh evidence from old data (2012, background): “This implies an “inverted-U” shape relationship first defined by Shafik and Bandyopadhyay (1992) and later empirically identified by Grossman and Krueger (1995). The relationship between environmental quality and growth has been the focus of much work historically.”
How much energy will buildings consume in 2100? A global perspective within a scenario framework (2018, background): “A In the case of lighting, although consumption per capita has risen exponentially over the last centuries to levels inconceivable in the past [33,34], Tsao et al. [34] estimate that the demand for lighting in terms of lumens, i.e. in terms of light and not electricity, could still increase tenfold…”
Artificially lit surface of Earth at night increasing in radiance and extent (2017, background): “INTRODUCTION Continued improvement in the luminous efficacy of light sources and increases in gross domestic product (GDP) have resulted in tremendous growth in artificial light use over several centuries (1).”