Increasing Energy Efficiency in Scottish Households : Trading-off Economic Benefits and Energy Rebound Effects?
Figus, Gioele and Turner, Karen and Lecca, Patrizio and McGregor, Peter and Swales, Kim (2016) Increasing Energy Efficiency in Scottish Households : Trading-off Economic Benefits and Energy Rebound Effects? University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
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Abstract
This paper investigates the economy-wide impacts of a 5% improvement in Scottish household energy efficiency, focussing specifically on general equilibrium energy rebound effects, both in household energy use and in total energy use across the Scottish economy. The impacts are measured through simulations using an intertemporal single region computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. Previous studies based on a national case show that improving efficiency in household energy can stimulate the economy through an increase and change in the pattern of the aggregate demand. However, this may put upward pressure on domestic prices, thereby crowding out exports. Here we find that in an open region, interregional migration of workers may give additional momentum to the economic expansion, by relieving pressure on the real wage and the CPI to their baseline values and restoring the lost competitiveness. By considering different simulation scenarios we show that there is a friction between the economic stimulus from increasing household energy efficiency and the rebound effects.
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Item type: Report ID code: 56449 Dates: DateEventMay 2016PublishedKeywords: renewable energy policy, climate change, Scotland, UK energy market, computable general equilibrium model, economy-wide rebound, household energy efficiency, Industries. Land use. Labor, Commerce, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy, SDG 13 - Climate Action, SDG 15 - Life on Land Subjects: Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor
Social Sciences > CommerceDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > International Public Policy Institute (IPPI)
Strathclyde Business School > EconomicsDepositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 19 May 2016 15:24 Last modified: 26 Nov 2023 02:13 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/56449