Energy Efficiency: What Has Research Delivered in the Last 40 Years?

  • Harry D. Saunders
    Carnegie Institution for Science, Global Ecology Group, Stanford, California 94305, USA;
  • Joyashree Roy
    Sustainable Energy Transition Program, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Change, Asian Institute of Technology, Klongluang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand
  • Inês M.L. Azevedo
    Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
  • Debalina Chakravarty
    Department of Economics, St. Xavier's University, Kolkata 700160, India
  • Shyamasree Dasgupta
    School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Himachal Pradesh 175005, India
  • Stephane de la Rue du Can
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  • Angela Druckman
    Centre for Environment and Sustainability, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 5XH, United Kingdom
  • Roger Fouquet
    Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom
  • Michael Grubb
    UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, Bartlett School of Environment, Energy & Resources, University College London, London NW1 2HE, United Kingdom
  • Boqiang Lin
    China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
  • Robert Lowe
    UCL Energy Institute, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
  • Reinhard Madlener
    School of Business and Economics/E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen 52074, Germany
  • Daire M. McCoy
    Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom
  • Luis Mundaca
    International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Lund SE-221 00, Sweden
  • Tadj Oreszczyn
    Bartlett School of Environment, Energy & Resources, University College London, London WC1H 0NN, United Kingdom
  • Steven Sorrell
    Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RH, United Kingdom
  • David Stern
    Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
  • Kanako Tanaka
    Center for Low Carbon Society Strategy, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo 102-8666, Japan
  • Taoyuan Wei
    Climate Economics Group, Center for International Climate Research (CICERO), 0318 Oslo, Norway

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<jats:p>This article presents a critical assessment of 40 years of research that may be brought under the umbrella of energy efficiency, spanning different aggregations and domains—from individual producing and consuming agents to economy-wide effects to the role of innovation to the influence of policy. After 40 years of research, energy efficiency initiatives are generally perceived as highly effective. Innovation has contributed to lowering energy technology costs and increasing energy productivity. Energy efficiency programs in many cases have reduced energy use per unit of economic output and have been associated with net improvements in welfare, emission reductions, or both. Rebound effects at the macro level still warrant careful policy attention, as they may be nontrivial. Complexity of energy efficiency dynamics calls for further methodological and empirical advances, multidisciplinary approaches, and granular data at the service level for research in this field to be of greatest societal benefit.</jats:p>

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