Does energy efficiency save energy? The debate and its consequences

Applied Energy

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 209-226

  Herring, Horace ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecological economics; Energy efficiency; Khazzoom Brookes postulate

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY POLICY; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; GAS EMISSIONS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; PUBLIC POLICY;

PUBLIC LIGHTING;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 0032649761     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-2619(99)00030-6     Document Type: Article

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