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Barriers to improvements in energy efficiency [electronic resource].

Published:
Washington, D.C. : United States. Environmental Protection Agency, 1991.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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Pages: (40 pages) : digital, PDF file
Additional Creators:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States. Environmental Protection Agency, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary:
To promote energy-efficiency improvements, actions may be required at one or more levels -- from the lowest level of the consumer (residential, commercial, industrial, etc.) through the highest level of the global agencies. But barriers to the implementation of energy-efficiency improvements exist or can arise at all these levels. Taking up each one of these barriers in turn, the paper discusses specific measures that can contribute to overcoming the barriers. However, a one-barrier-one-measure approach must be avoided. Single barriers may in fact involve several sub-barriers. Also, combinations of measures are much more effective in overcoming barriers. In particular, combinations of measures that simultaneously overcome several barriers are most successful. The paper discusses the typology of barriers, explores their origin and suggests measures that by themselves or in combination with other measures, will overcome these barriers. Since most of the barriers dealt with can be found in the barriers'' literature, any originality in the paper lies in its systematic organization, synoptic view and holistic treatment of this issue. This paper is intended to initiate a comprehensive treatment of barriers, their origins and the measures that contribute to overcoming them. Hopefully, such a treatment will facilitate the implementation of energy-efficiency improvements involving a wide diversity of ever-changing energy end uses and consumer preferences.
Report Numbers:
E 1.99:lbl-31439
E 1.99: conf-9010449--1
conf-9010449--1
lbl-31439
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Published through SciTech Connect.
10/01/1991.
"lbl-31439"
" conf-9010449--1"
"DE92008309"
Workshop on reducing carbon emissions from the developing world: assessment of benefits, costs and barriers, Berkeley, CA (United States), 4-6 Oct 1990.
Reddy, A.K.N.
Funding Information:
AC03-76SF00098
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