Quantification of energy savings from Ireland's Home Energy Saving scheme: An ex post billing analysis

Energy Efficiency

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 35-48

  Scheer, Jim ^a   Clancy, Matthew ^a   Hógáin, Sadhbh Ní ^a  

^a SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AUTHORITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Billing analysis; Energy efficiency; Energy savings; Energy Services Directive; Ex ante; Ex post; HES; Household upgrades; Insulation; Policy analysis; Self selection

Indexed keywords

BOILERS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GASES; HEATING; HELIUM; HOUSING; INSULATION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

BILLING ANALYSIS; ENERGY SERVICES; EX ANTES; EX POST; HOUSEHOLD UPGRADES; POLICY ANALYSIS; SELF-SELECTION;

DATA REDUCTION;

ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY USE; HOUSEHOLD ENERGY; INSULATION; POLICY ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY;

IRELAND;

EID: 84872311422     PISSN: 1570646X     EISSN: 15706478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12053-012-9164-8     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Central Statistics Office. (2006). Principal Demographic Results Census 2006. Dublin: The Stationary Office.
2. Central Statistics Office. (2010). Quarterly National Household Survey. Dublin: Central Statistics Office.
3. Cook, T. D., & Campbell, D. T. (1979). Quasi-experimentation: design and analysis for field settings. Chicago: Rand McNally.
4. Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. (2009). National Energy Efficient Action Plan (NEEAP). Dublin: Department of Communications Energy and Natural Resources.
5. Dubin, J. A., & McFadden, D. L. (1984). An econometric analysis of residential electric appliance holdings and consumption. Econometrica, 52(2), 345-362.
6. European Commission. (2006, April). Council Directive 2006/32/EC on energy end-use efficiency and energy services and repealing Council Directive 93/76/EEC.
7. Frondel, M., & Schmidt, C. M. (2005). Evaluating environmental programs: the perspective of modern evaluation research. Ecological Economics, 55(4), 515-526.
8. Greening, L. A., Greene, D. L., & Difiglio, C. (2000). Energy efficiency and consumption-the rebound effect-a survey. Energy Policy, 28(200), 389-401.
9. Greenstone, M., & Gayer, T. (2009). Quasi-experimental and experimental approaches to environmental economics. Environmental Economics and Management.
10. Hartman, R. S. (1988). Self-selection bias in the evolution of voluntary energy conservation programs. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 70(3), 448-458.
11. Hausman, J. A. (1979). Individual discount rates and the purchase and utilisation of energy-using durables. Bell Journal of Economics, 10(1), 33-54.
12. Leahy, E., Lyons, S. (2009). Energy use and appliance ownership in Ireland. Working Papers, WP277.
13. Meyer, B. (1995). Natural and quasi experiments in economics. The Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 13(2), 151-160.
14. SEAI. (2010). Bringing energy home-understanding how people think about energy in their homes. Dublin: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland.
15. SEAI EPSSU. (2008). Energy in the residential sector. Dublin: Energy Policy Statistical Support Unit, Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland.
16. Sommerville, M., & Sorrell, S. (2007). UKERC review of evidence for the rebound effect: technical report 1: evaluation studies. London: UK Energy Research Centre.
17. Sorrell, S., Dimitropoulos, J., & Sommerville, M. C. (2009). Empirical estimates of the direct rebound effect: a review. Energy Policy, 37, 1356-1371.