Electrification and energy productivity

Kerstin Enflo, Astrid Kander (astrid.kander@ekh.lu.se) and Lennart Schön (lennart.schon@ekh.lu.se)
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Lennart Schön: CIRCLE and Department of Economic History, Lund University, Postal: CIRCLE, Lund University, PO Box 117, Sölvegatan 16, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden

No 2008/16, Papers in Innovation Studies from Lund University, CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation Research

Abstract: Efficiency in energy use is crucial for sustainable development. We use cointegration analyses to investigate the effect of electricity on energy productivity in Swedish industry 1930-1990. Electricity augmented energy productivity in those industrial branches that used electricity for multiple purposes. This productivity effect goes beyond “book-keeping effects”, i. e. it is not only the result of electricity being produced in one sector (taking the energy transformation losses) and consumed in another (receiving the benefits).

Keywords: Energy; electricity; sustainable development; productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2008-12-01
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