Energy efficiency policies for space heating in EU countries: A panel data analysis for the period 1990–2010

Eoin Ó Broin (), Jonas Nässén () and Filip Johnsson ()
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Eoin Ó Broin: CIRED - centre international de recherche sur l'environnement et le développement - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AgroParisTech - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Chalmers University of Technology [Göteborg]
Jonas Nässén: Chalmers University of Technology [Göteborg]
Filip Johnsson: Chalmers University of Technology [Göteborg]

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Abstract: We present an empirical analysis of the more than 250 space heating-focused energy efficiency policies that have been in force at the EU and national levels in the period 1990–2010. This analysis looks at the EU-14 residential sector (Pre-2004 EU-15, excluding Luxembourg) using a panel data regression analysis on unit consumption of energy for space heating (kWh/m2/year). The policies are represented as a regression variable using a semi-quantitative impact estimation obtained from the MURE Policy Database. The impacts of the policies as a whole, and subdivided into financial, regulatory, and informative policies, are examined. The correlation between the actual reductions in demand and the estimated impact of regulatory policies is found to be stronger than the corresponding correlations with the respective impacts of financial policies and informative polices. Together with the well-known market barriers to energy efficiency that exist in the residential sector, these findings suggest that regulatory policy measures be given a high priority in the design of an effective pathway towards the EU-wide goals for space heating energy.

Keywords: Residential; Econometrics; Efficiency; Policy; Space heat; Regulations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-03-13
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Published in Applied Energy, 2015, 150, pp.211-223. ⟨10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.03.063⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.03.063

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