Spreading the Net: The Multiple Benefits of Energy Efficiency Improvements
Spreading the Net: The Multiple Benefits of Energy Efficiency Improvements
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传播网络：提高能源效率的多重好处
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2012
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Nina Campbell
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L. Ryan;Nina Campbell
长期以来，提高能源效率一直被提倡作为提高社会生产力和可持续性的一种方式，主要是通过节省能源来实现。能源效率措施的影响可远远超出节约能源的范围，而能源效率的提高可成为经济增长和社会发展的重要推动力。实施能源效率措施带来的惠益包括地方性惠益，如能源负担能力、改善健康、福祉和社会发展，以及部门性惠益，如工业生产力、提高资产价值，减少环境破坏。发达国家和发展中国家的国家竞争力、就业、消费者剩余和能源安全以及减贫和温室气体缓解等宏观经济成果也与能效措施相关。越来越多的证据表明这些结果在多大程度上源于能源效率政策。与此同时，评估专家正在开始探索如何量化这些指标，以便更容易与节能一起进行评估。将评价范围扩大到这些事项可以为能效措施提供一个新的视角，并通过改进能效方案的成本/效益评估，可以帮助决策者协调感知的贸易-本文初步评估了多重效益中最重要的效益范围，并讨论了对能源效率政策的潜在重大影响作为更广泛的社会经济战略的一部分。
Improving energy efficiency has long been advocated as a way to increase the productivity and sustainability of society, primarily through the delivery of energy savings. The impact of energy efficiency measures can go far beyond energy savings, and energy efficiency improvements can be an important contributor to economic growth and social development.Benefits attributed to the implementation of energy efficiency measures range from localised benefits, such as energy affordability, improved health, wellbeing and social development, to sectoral benefits, such as industrial productivity, improved asset values and reduced environmental damage. Macroeconomic outcomes such as national competitiveness, jobs, consumer surplus and energy security, as well as poverty alleviation and greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation in both developed and developing countries, are further associated with energy efficiency measures. Significant evidence is emerging on the extent to which these outcomes stem from energy efficiency policies. At the same time, evaluation experts are beginning to explore ways to quantify them so that they can be more readily assessed alongside energy savings. Expanding evaluation to such matters could offer a new perspective on energy efficiency measures and, by improving the cost/benefit assessment of energy efficiency programs, could help decision-makers reconcile perceived trade-offs between supporting economic growth and reducing energy use.This paper makes a preliminary assessment of the scope of the most significant of the multiple benefits and discusses the potentially large implications for energy efficiency policy as part of a wider socioeconomic strategy.