Estimating customer utility of energy efficiency standards for refrigerators

Application of international energy efficiency standards for energy auditing in a University buildings

This study seeks to provide insights on understanding the contemporary problems of energy efficiency in Ukrainian universities by developing a comprehensive energy efficiency management framework that encompasses its participating subjects, objects and key drivers along with suggesting its implementation mechanism and tools. Emphasis should be given that the current situation of inefficient and...

Are Energy Efficiency Standards Justified?

This paper develops and parameterizes an overarching analytical framework to estimate the welfare effects of energy efficiency standards applied to automobiles and electricity-using durables. We also compare standards with sectoral and economywide pricing policies. The model captures a wide range of externalities and preexisting energy policies, and it allows for possible “misperceptions”—marke...

Energy efficiency and emissions intensity standards

We investigate the role of energy efficiency in rate-based emissions intensity standards, a particularly policy relevant consideration given the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan allows crediting of electricity savings as a means of complying with state-specific emissions standards. We show that for perfectly inelastic energy services demand, crediting efficiency measures can r...

Do Energy Efficiency Standards Increase Social Welfare ?

Study on Reduction of Energy Consumption of Household Refrigerators-Freezers

In the last quarter of the century, a substantial amount of research work has been conducted on optimization of energy consumption by refrigeration systems and on proper design and construction of household refrigerator-freezers. The importance of such energy optimization schemes stems from the environmental impacts of Freon (R-12) used as the working refrigerant in household refrigerator – fre...