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Title: Barriers and opportunities: A review of selected successful energy-efficiency programs

Abstract

In industry, barriers may exist at various points in the decision making process, and in the implementation and management of measures to improve energy efficiency. Barriers may take many forms, and are determined by the business environment and include decision-making processes, energy prices, lack of information, a lack of confidence in the information, or high transaction costs for obtaining reliable information, as well as limited capital availability. Other barriers are the ''invisibility'' of energy efficiency measures and the difficulty of quantifying the impacts, and slow diffusion of innovative technology into markets while firms typically under-invest in R and D, despite the high pay-backs. Various programs try to reduce the barriers to improve the uptake of innovative technologies. A wide array of policies has been used and tested in the industrial sector in industrialized countries, with varying success rates. We review some new approaches to industrial energy efficiency improvement in industrialized countries, focusing on voluntary agreements.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
Environmental Protection Agency (US)
OSTI Identifier:
790406
Report Number(s):
LBNL-47908
R&D Project: 43CV50; TRN: US200203%%5
DOE Contract Number:  
AC03-76SF00098
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 23rd National Industrial Energy Technology Conference, Houston, TX (US), 05/01/2001--05/04/2001; Other Information: PBD: 20 Mar 2001
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; CAPITAL; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; IMPLEMENTATION; INDUSTRY; MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRY ENERGY POLICY VOLUNTARY AGREEMENT

Citation Formats

Worrell, Ernst, and Price, Lynn. Barriers and opportunities: A review of selected successful energy-efficiency programs. United States: N. p., 2001. Web.
Worrell, Ernst, & Price, Lynn. Barriers and opportunities: A review of selected successful energy-efficiency programs. United States.
Worrell, Ernst, and Price, Lynn. 2001. "Barriers and opportunities: A review of selected successful energy-efficiency programs". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/790406.
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abstractNote = {In industry, barriers may exist at various points in the decision making process, and in the implementation and management of measures to improve energy efficiency. Barriers may take many forms, and are determined by the business environment and include decision-making processes, energy prices, lack of information, a lack of confidence in the information, or high transaction costs for obtaining reliable information, as well as limited capital availability. Other barriers are the ''invisibility'' of energy efficiency measures and the difficulty of quantifying the impacts, and slow diffusion of innovative technology into markets while firms typically under-invest in R and D, despite the high pay-backs. Various programs try to reduce the barriers to improve the uptake of innovative technologies. A wide array of policies has been used and tested in the industrial sector in industrialized countries, with varying success rates. We review some new approaches to industrial energy efficiency improvement in industrialized countries, focusing on voluntary agreements.},
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