Impact of energy policy instruments on the estimated level of underlying energy efficiency in the EU residential sector
By Massimo Filippini, L. Hunt, J. Zorić. 2013
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The promotion of energy efficiency is seen as one of the top priorities of EU energy policy (EC, 2010). In order to design and implement effective energy policy instruments, it is necessary to have information on energy demand price and income elasticities in addition to sound indicators of energy efficiency. This research combines the approaches taken in energy demand modelling and frontier analysis in order to econometrically estimate the level of energy efficiency for the residential sector in the EU-27 member states for the period 1996 to 2009. The estimates for the energy efficiency confirm that the EU residential sector indeed holds a relatively high potential for energy savings from reduced inefficiency. Therefore, despite the common objective to decrease ‘wasteful’ energy consumption, considerable variation in energy efficiency between the EU member states is established. Furthermore, an attempt is made to evaluate the impact of energy-efficiency measures undertaken in the EU residential sector by introducing an additional set of variables into the model and the results suggest that financial incentives and energy performance standards play an important role in promoting energy efficiency improvements, whereas informative measures do not have a significant impact.
Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Management Science and Operations Research, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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Citations in the corpus
- Global changes in residential energy consumption (2017, background): “Some studies refer to a specific part of 3 the world, such as, for example, the EU (Filippini et al., 2014a, 2014b), the USA (Lee and Lee, 2012), China (Zhao et al., 2012) or Lithuania (Štreimikienė, 2014).”
- Do energy efficiency policies save energy? A new approach based on energy policy indicators (in the EU Member States) (2020, unknown): “The idea of introducing this type of variable in the econometric analysis of effectiveness of energy policies is not new (Bigano et al., 2011; Saussay et al., 2012; Filippini et al., 2014).”
- Analysis of the EU Residential Energy Consumption: Trends and Determinants (2019, background): “[24] assessed the level of energy efficiency of the EU residential sector against the potential for energy savings by using stochastic frontier analysis.”