التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Assessing the effectiveness of energy efficiency measures in the residential sector through dynamic treatment effects: Evidence for heating in the United Kingdom. |
| المؤلفون: |
Peñasco, Cristina, Diaz-Anadon, Laura |
| المصدر: |
IAEE Conference Proceedings; 2021, p1-36, 36p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ENERGY consumption, ENERGY security, ENERGY conservation |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
UNITED Kingdom, OECD countries |
| مستخلص: |
Improving energy efficiency (EE) is vital to ensure a sustainable, affordable, and secure energy system. The residential sector represents, on average, 18.6% of the total final energy consumption in the OECD countries in 2018, reaching one of the highest percentages of Europe in the UK, with 29.5% of total final energy consumption (IEA, 2020). Using a staggered differences-indifferences approach with dynamic treatment effects, we analyse changes in residential gas consumption before and after the adoption of energy efficiency measures in an event study design. The analysis includes households' technical energy efficiency interventions for heating subjected to energy efficiency programmes in England and Wales between 2005 and 2017 using a panel of 55,154 households from the National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework (NEED). We control for, among other factors, energy prices, and estimate the extent to which gas consumption changes are dependent on household characteristics and variations in weather conditions. We comprise two energy efficiency technological interventions i.e. loft insulation and cavity wall. Our results indicate that the adoption of EE measures is associated with significant reductions in household residential gas consumption one year after their implementation. However, the effect does not last in the long run and energy savings disappear four years after retrofitting for cavity wall insulation measures and after two years for loft insulations. This negative result could be explained by either the rebound effect and/or by concurrent residential projects and renovations that can increase energy consumption. For households in deprived areas the installation of technological interventions does not deliver energy savings. These results confirm the existence of backfire effects and the magnitude of energy efficiency rebounds show potential to completely offset any energy savings for certain groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |
