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Consumer End-Use Energy Efficiency and Rebound Effects

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Azevedo, Inês M.L.·2014·Annual Review of Environment and Resources
DOI 10.1146/annurev-environ-021913-153558
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Energy efficiency policies are pursued as a way to provide affordable and sustainable energy services. Efficiency measures that reduce energy service costs will free up resources that can be spent in the form of increased consumption—either of that same good or service or of other goods and services that require energy (and that have associated emissions). This is called the rebound effect. There is still significant ambiguity about how the rebound effect should be defined, how we can measure it, and how we can characterize its uncertainty. Occasionally the debate regarding its importance reemerges, in part because the existing studies are not easily comparable. The scope, region, end-uses, time period of analysis, and drivers for efficiency improvements all differ widely from study to study. As a result, listing one single number for rebound effects would be misleading. Rebound effects are likely to depend on the specific attributes of the policies that trigger the efficiency improvement, but such factors are often ignored. Implications for welfare changes resulting from rebound have also been largely ignored in the literature until recently.

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Authors
Azevedo, I. M. L.
Affiliations
Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213;
Venue
Annual Review of Environment and Resources
Publisher
Annual Reviews
Published
2014-10-17
Volume
39
Issue
1
Pages
393-418
ISSN
  • 1543-5938 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-2050
DOI
10.1146/annurev-environ-021913-153558
OpenAlex
W2164433556
Cited by
144
References
91
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 2
FWCI
0.38
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
Annual Review of Environment and Resources (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • University of British Columbia
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Energy Efficiency and Management
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Environmental Education and Sustainability
Keywords
rebound effect, energy efficiency, energy efficiency policy, energy consumption, emissions

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