Improving energy efficiency: Strategies for supporting sustained market evolution in developing and transitioning countries

Technical Report · Sun Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1998

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/656842· OSTI ID:656842

Meyers, S

This report presents a framework for considering market-oriented strategies for improving energy efficiency that recognize the conditions of developing and transitioning countries, and the need to strengthen the effectiveness of market forces in delivering greater energy efficiency. It discusses policies that build markets in general, such as economic and energy pricing reforms that encourage competition and increase incentives for market actors to improve the efficiency of their energy use, and measures that reduce the barriers to energy efficiency in specific markets such that improvement evolves in a dynamic, lasting manner. The report emphasizes how different policies and measures support one another and can create a synergy in which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. In addressing this topic, it draws on the experience with market transformation energy efficiency programs in the US and other industrialized countries.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., Environmental Energy Technologies Div., Berkeley, CA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 656842
• Report Number(s): LBNL--41460; ON: DE98056101
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ENERGY CONSERVATION
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
FINANCIAL INCENTIVES
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
MARKET
USA