Making the case for supporting broad energy efficiency programmes: impacts on household incomes and other economic benefits
Making the case for supporting broad energy efficiency programmes: impacts on household incomes and other economic benefits
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10.1016/j.enpol.2017.09.028
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2016-12
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Gioele Figus;K. Turner;P. McGregor;Antonios Katris
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作者：
Gioele Figus;K. Turner;P. McGregor;Antonios Katris
近年来，对反弹效应的过于狭隘的关注限制了研究人员和政策对提高能源效率的更广泛的多重效益的关注程度。我们的目标是将政策注意力集中在通过提高住宅部门的能源效率为经济创造的持续附加值上。世界各国政府都致力于更广泛地提高能源效率，但往往把公共支持的重点放在低收入家庭，因为能源贫困是一个特别令人担忧的问题。然而，政府的运作是在多重目标的背景下进行的，能源效率有望在可持续经济发展的同时显著减少碳排放。我们使用英国CGE模型来考虑支持住宅能源使用中能源效率提高的一般影响。我们的研究结果表明，能源效率提高引发的GDP增长，以及更普遍的经济活动，在增加家庭收入方面比效率提高本身带来的影响更大。我们发现，提高能源效率的范围越广，经济扩张和相关回报可能就越大，而且随着时间的推移，通过公共预算融资的手段对效益的侵蚀就越小。
In recent years, an overly narrow focus on rebound effects has limited the extent of researcher and policy attention afforded to the wider multiple benefits of increased energy efficiency. Our objective is to focus policy attention on the sustained added value to the economy that is created by improving energy efficiency in the residential sector. Governments around the world are committed to increasing energy efficiency more generally, but often focus public support in low income households where energy poverty is a particular concern. However, governments operate in a context of multiple objectives where energy efficiency is expected to deliver significant reductions in carbon emissions alongside sustainable economic development. We use a UK CGE model to consider the general effects of supporting increases in energy efficiency in residential energy use. Our results demonstrate that the increase in GDP, and economic activity more generally, triggered by increased energy efficiency delivers more in terms of increased household incomes than the efficiency improvement itself. We find that the more wide ranging the boost to energy efficiency, the greater the economic expansion and associated returns are likely to be, and the less the means of financing through public budgets will erode the benefits over time.