Download or read book Equitable Economic Energy Efficiency written by Amit Sarin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (cont.) This thesis attempts to bridge this gap by documenting how the need for thousands of weatherization workers might be handled in a way that not only stimulates the national economy-the primary goal of the current national economic stimulus effort--but also provides Auditor and Installer jobs for marginalized workers in a way that leads to fruitful long-term employment. Based on my review of ramp-up and weatherization efforts in Massachusetts, I find that collaborative efforts involving existing Community Action Programs, labor unions, Utility companies, neighborhood organizations and educational institutions that prioritize training for long-term skill development may well be possible to promote energy efficiency in a way that addresses both our long-term need to reduce the burning of fossil fuel and our urgent need to stimulate the US economy and improve the economic lot of the most marginalized in US society.
Download or read book Energy Economic Growth and Equity in the United States written by Narasimhan P. Kannan and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1979 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on evaluations of effects of different energy policies on economic growth and economic disparity in the USA - using two simulation mathematical models, analyses energy-economic implications relating to income distribution, energy conservation and prices, investment and productivity, etc. Diagrams, flow charts, graphs, references and statistical tables.
Download or read book Efficiency and Equity of Climate Change Policy written by Carlo Carraro and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Efficiency and Equity of Climate Change Policy is a comprehensive assessment of the economic effects of climate change policy, addressing the issues with a quantitative modelling approach. The book thus goes beyond the usual statements on the efficiency of economic instruments to identify the way gains and losses are distributed; who gains and who loses. Both the costs and benefits of climate change policies are analyzed. Most papers also provide useful information on the economic features of the Kyoto Protocol, its possible extensions, and the effect of different implementation strategies (such as the debate on emissions trading ceilings). Readership: Scientists and policy makers, students and specialists in climate related industries, members of NGOs, and policy advisors.
Download or read book Energy Democracy written by Denise Fairchild and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The near-unanimous consensus among climate scientists is that the massive burning of gas, oil, and coal is having cataclysmic impacts on our atmosphere and climate. These climate and environmental impacts are particularly magnified and debilitating for low-income communities and communities of color. Energy democracy tenders a response and joins the environmental and climate movement with broader movements for social and economic change in this country and around the world. Energy Democracy brings together racial, cultural, and generational perspectives to show what an alternative, democratized energy future can look like. The book will inspire others to take up the struggle to build the energy democracy movement.
Download or read book Energizing India written by Suman Bery and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores opportunities and challenges in articulating and implementing a robust but flexible set of strategies for meeting India’s primary energy needs; making the energy system more resilient, in order to drive India’s economic growth, and more equitable, in order to fulfil the basic energy needs of all citizens in an uncertain future. A range of national scenarios is explored to examine possibilities of fuel and technology substitutions along two time horizons: in some detail until 2030 and also mapping out plausible pathways to 2050. This volume is the first time a tripartite effort has been undertaken by an IOC (Shell) and two reputed think-tanks (CEEW and TERI) to develop a single narrative on energy choices and related issues in India. It combines Shell’s international and energy-specific know-how with CEEW and TERI’s domestic and broader sustainable development experience. Finally, it is unique in its treatment of the energy sector as a whole in India’s development (focusing on both the technology and policy dimensions), and in its engagement with the world (including diplomatic and security dimensions).
Download or read book Driving Equitable Demand written by Robert Joseph Crauderueff and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing the energy efficiency of low- to moderate-income and minority-occupied households could significantly reduce energy consumption in the United States. Strategies to access these 'hard to reach' households, however, are not well understood. The federal Department of Energy's $486 million BetterBuildings program funds 34 grantees to transform regional energy efficiency markets while accessing households occupied by people of many incomes and ethnicities. This thesis assesses how BetterBuildings programs may access hard-to-reach households by conducting a survey of programs nationally, follow-up interviews, and a case study of Greensboro, North Carolina's program. The survey and interviews indicate that incorporating hard-to-reach households into large-scale pilot projects may enhance efforts to transform energy efficiency markets. Grantees are using financing and grant programs, geographic targeting strategies, and innovative community outreach strategies to access hard-to-reach households. Through examining the case of Greensboro, North Carolina, this thesis argues that policymakers and program managers may increase access to hard-to-reach households by partnering, during program design, with stakeholders who have local knowledge of hard-to-reach households, technical proficiency, and capacity to implement a program targeting these households. Implementation challenges in Greensboro indicate that political support may be necessary to create and sustain access to hard-to-reach households, and grassroots organizations that partner with public agencies may need to develop alternative organizational structures to remain politically active. This thesis recommends that analysts and policymakers identify the conditions under which programs could access low- and moderate-income and minority-occupied households, rather than assume these households are inherently hard-to-reach. Finally, this thesis puts forth a Flexible "D.E.E.P." Equity Framework suggesting that programs could access hard-to-reach households by focusing on the democratic participation of stakeholders with local knowledge, market transformation, economic models, and the importance of place. Programs should evaluate accessibility outcomes, associated energy savings, and the conditions and processes that led to these outcomes.
Download or read book High Energy Costs written by Hans H. Landsberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two major concerns in the energy policy debate relate to economic efficiency and whether the price should indicate to each consumer the true cost to the economy of using more energy, and the second is that of economic equity where it is argued that energy is a basic necessity for survival and the government has the responsibility to provide assistance for lower-income families. Originally published in 1982, this volume focuses on the uneven impact of rising energy costs on different income groups, regions, and household locations. This collection of papers helps to fill the knowledge gaps about the amount and distribution of household energy expenditure. The volume is organised with a paper introducing each topic followed by one or two discussants’ remarks further examining the issues at hand. It is a valuable title for students interested in environmental studies and national policy.
Download or read book Financing Energy Efficiency written by Robert Prescott Taylor and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy for heating, cooling, lighting, mechanical power, and various chemical processes is a fundamental requirement for both daily life and economic development. The negative impact on the environment of current energy systems is increasingly alarming, especially the global warming consequences of burning fossil fuels. The future requires change through the development and adoption of new supply technologies, through a successful search for new, less resource-intensive paths of economic development, and through adoption of energy. Greater energy efficiency is key for shifting country development paths toward lower-carbon economic growth. Especially in developing countries and transition economies, vast potential for energy savings opportunities remain unrealized even though current financial returns are strong. Activities included specialized technical assistance, training, and applied research covering the four primary areas of country interest: (a) development of commercial banking windows for energy efficiency; (b) support for developing energy service companies (ESCOs); (c) guarantee funds for energy efficiency investment financing; and (d) equity funding for ESCOs or energy efficiency projects. One clear message from the experience of the three country Energy Efficiency Project is the importance of establishing and maintaining practical, operationally focused dialogue between the banking community and the energy efficiency practitioner community.
Download or read book Energy Sector Reform written by Per Ljung and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on the Efficiency and Equity of Energy Production and Consumption in the United States written by Amanda Jean Harker Steele and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the turn of the century, the way energy is produced and consumed across the United States has changed substantially. The objective of this dissertation is to provide an overview of the economic efficiency and distributional equity implications of changing the way energy is both produced and consumed. This work is outlined in three separate essays. The first essay entitled, "Gone with The Wind: Understanding the Impact of Intermittent Renewable Resources on Power System Reliability Across the United States," investigates if increasing the capacity of electricity generated by intermittent renewable resources affects the ability of electric utility companies across the United States to provide a reliable supply of power to their customers. Results suggest as the capacity of electricity generated by intermittent renewable resources increases, customers can expect to experience longer power system outages. The second essay, entitled "Estimating and Comparing Empirical Measures of Household Energy Insecurity," examines the extent to which different classification procedures used for identifying energy insecure households provide an accurate representation of what it means to be energy insecure in the United States. In this essay we compare and contrast five different approaches used for measuring household energy insecurity and propose one of these as a unique, conceptually and empirically strong, and preferred measure. Across the different measures, we find between 9 to 22% of households living in the U.S. identify as energy insecure. The third essay entitled, "Examining the Theoretical and Empirical Relationships Between Household Energy Efficiency and Security," develops a theoretical model and empirical procedure for examining how investing in energy efficiency affects household energy insecurity. We use our preferred measure of energy insecurity developed in the second essay to test our hypothesis that investing in energy efficiency has a significant negative effect on a household self-identifying as being energy insecure. The results of this essay indicate investing in energy efficiency decreases the likelihood that a household will become more energy insecure. This dissertation concludes in the last chapter with a brief summary and general conclusions from this research.
Download or read book Equity and Energy written by Mark N. Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that the energy price policies of the 1970s represented a major equity/efficiency trade-off and led to a dramatic deterioration in the living standard of lower income households, the authors of this book present a comprehensive data-based assessment of the plight of lower income households during the decade of 1973-1983. After a general review of the recessionary and inflationary impact of rising energy prices on the national economy, they present detailed empirical assessments of three trends adversely affecting lower income households: (1) the rising share of household energy expenditures as a percentage of household income and the failure of income transfer programs to offset losses in purchasing power; (2) the rapid increase in energy-related operating costs in lower income rental housing and the coincident decline in the quality of housing; and (3) the rapid increase in energy-related operating costs of local governments which strained local fiscal resources and led to a cutback in the provision of redistributive services (such as health, education, and welfare) and a shift toward regressive taxes. The authors conclude that damage to the national economy and to the living standards of lower income households remains severe; price trends of the 1980s, they emphasize, represent only slight moderations of earlier trends, while the vulnerability to future energy price shocks has been reduced very little. The need for effective policy responses is even greater now than in the first decade of the energy crisis.
Download or read book Energy Justice in a Changing Climate written by Karen Bickerstaff and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy justice is one of the most critical, and yet least developed, concepts associated with sustainability. Much has been written about the sustainability of low-carbon energy systems and policies - with an emphasis on environmental, economic and geopolitical issues. However, less attention has been directed at the social and equity implications of these dynamic relations between energy and low-carbon objectives - the complexity of injustice associated with whole energy systems (from extractive industries, through to consumption and waste) that transcend national boundaries and the social, political-economic and material processes driving the experience of energy injustice and vulnerability. Drawing on a substantial body of original research from an international collaboration of experts this unique collection addresses energy poverty, just innovation, aesthetic justice and the justice implications of low-carbon energy systems and technologies. The book offers new thinking on how interactions between climate change, energy policy, and equity and social justice can be understood and develops a critical agenda for energy justice research.
Download or read book Green Energy Economies written by John Byrne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green Energy Economies offers insight into the major drivers that are shaping a new future powered by clean energy sources. Assembling cutting-edge researchers as contributors, the book provides a comprehensive account of the shift underway, examining in detail the complexities and intricacies involved with such a transition. The book first details the promises and problems of a green energy transition. Next, it explores the economic benefits that a comprehensive strategy toward a green energy economy might create. Then it investigates how communities will be affected and explores the social, cultural, and other changes that are likely to result. Finally, it explores the shift toward new technologies in-depth. Green Energy Economies concludes with policy options that support a transition to a better energy, environmental, and economic future. The contributors argue that a green energy economy offers great promise, but its realization will require making hard choices, and soon. They argue for investments in renewable energy and economic systems that can deliver a sustainable and equitable future. This book makes a forceful case for a green future.
Download or read book Distributional Impacts of Energy Policies in India written by Narasimha Desirazu Rao and published by Stanford University. This book was released on 2011 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there is much agreement in the climate policy literature that climate change mitigation should not interfere with humans' ability to enjoy a minimal standard of living, there is little scholarship on how to carve out such an "exemption" for poor subpopulations within large developing economies. Further, there is little analysis in developing countries of how the burdens of specific mitigation policies would be distributed. This dissertation begins to fill these gaps. This work consists of three studies, the first two of which are positive studies of the income distributional impacts of two energy policies that have climate mitigation benefits in Maharashtra, India: electricity pricing to recover low-carbon electric supply; and removal of the kerosene subsidy. In the first study I use an economic simulation model of the electricity sector and household welfare to assess the impacts of economy-wide electricity price increases under different political and institutional constraints. The analysis reveals that regulators can insulate low-income households from welfare losses without trading off aggregate welfare losses as long as they can raise prices to industry and high-income households. Mitigation may also have a co-benefit of reducing supply interruptions to the poor. In the second study, the kerosene subsidy is found to be progressive and material in urban areas, but regressive and less material in rural areas. One reason is that households' allocated quotas far exceed kerosene demand in rural areas, but fall short of many urban households' needs. A better targeted subsidy in urban areas alone would avoid high costs of the current subsidy, yet avoid the impoverishment of urban users from their complete removal. These results emphasize that protecting the interests of the poor in international climate change mitigation agreements requires some accountability from the institutions that implement mitigation policies within states. The third study questions the adequacy of burden-sharing proposals for climate mitigation that advocate an exemption for the poor without accounting for states' agency over the costs and outcomes of such an exemption. Participating states face moral hazards over the choice of future baselines of the poor's emissions. I show - using India for illustration - that the financial stakes for parties in how future growth is distributed in India can be up to tens of billions of dollars. Getting agreement on the terms of exemption may be easier if benefiting states adopt comparative benchmarks of accountability for the poor's emissions, but which do not infringe on particular policy choices. Furthermore, participating states should have shared duties to ensure that the poor receive the benefits of an awarded exemption.
Download or read book The Changing Role of the Market in National Economies written by William U. Chandler and published by Steve Parish. This book was released on 1986 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of sustainable economics not only examines how to produce what for whom but also how irreplaceable resources can be adequately conserved. Efficient and equitable economic mechanisms are central components of the concept. Analyzing issues complicated by politics, ideology, and nationalism, sustainable economics scholars attempt to explore what works to make resource use more efficient, how people behave in relation to resources, and how a country's economic system can alter its prospects for survival. In this paper an answer for survival is sought through an examination of the performance of various countries throughout the world in agricultural efficiency/food security, energy efficiency, environmental pollution, and equity. Central to these topics is the changing reliance on the market, which should have significant human and environmental consequences. It is also contended that efficient food production and energy consumption make the best indicators of progress toward sustainable economics. It is concluded that many countries are reorienting their economies but that over-optimism about efficiency is not justified in view of the many problems that remain. Ten tables and 4 figures illustrate the topics in question. (TRS)
Download or read book Regulations in the Energy Industry written by André Dorsman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a broad overview of the financial, economic and legal implications of energy industry regulations in various countries. In light of significant changes around the globe, it analyses various institutions that are involved in regulative measures, and based on various country studies, it offers insights into how energy sector regulations differ across countries with different market structures and institutions. Covering major topics such as laws and regulations geared to market competition and sustainability and the impact of noncompliance to regulations, from the perspectives of financial markets, and financial risks, the book is divided into four parts: Part I Regulations: price and trade controls; Part II. Non-price & trade control regulations; Part III: Compliance with regulations; and Part IV: Market issues and regulation. It will appeal to scholar in economics, finance and related fields as well as to policymakers and practitioners in the energy industry. This is the seventh volume in a series on energy organized by the Centre for Energy and Value Issues (CEVI). The previous volumes in the series were: Financial Aspects in Energy (2011), Energy Economics and Financial Markets (2012), Perspectives on Energy Risk (2014), Energy Technology and Valuation Issues (2015), Energy and Finance (2016) and Energy Economy, Finance and Geostrategy (2018).
Download or read book Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Consumption written by H. Herring and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-27 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges conventional wisdom by showing how, in some circumstances, improved energy efficiency may increase energy consumption. Relying upon energy efficiency to reduce carbon emissions could therefore be misguided. This book explores the broader implications for climate change and sustainable consumption.
