کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
995795 1481316 2012 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Energy efficiency and policy in Swedish pulp and paper mills: A data envelopment analysis approach
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی انرژی مهندسی انرژی و فناوری های برق
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Energy efficiency and policy in Swedish pulp and paper mills: A data envelopment analysis approach
چکیده انگلیسی

The paper provides an empirical assessment of the electricity efficiency improvement potential in the Swedish pulp and paper industry by employing data envelopment analysis (DEA) and mill-specific input and output data for the years 1995, 2000 and 2005. The empirical results are discussed in relation to the reported outcomes of the Swedish voluntary energy efficiency programme PFE. The estimated electricity efficiency gap is relatively stable over the time period; it equals roughly 1 TWh per year for the sample mills and this is three times higher than the corresponding self-reported electricity savings in PFE. This result is largely a reflection of the fact that in the pulp and paper industry electricity efficiency improvements are typically embodied in the diffusion of new capital equipment, and there is a risk that some of the reported measures in PFE simply constitute an inefficient speed-up of capital turnover. The above does not preclude, though, that many other measures in PFE may have addressed some relevant market failures and barriers in the energy efficiency market. Overall the analysis suggests that future energy efficiency programs could plausibly be better targeted at explicitly promoting technological progress as well as at addressing the most important information and behaviour-related failures.


► We provide an empirical assessment of the electricity efficiency improvement potential in the Swedish pulp and paper industry.
► The empirical results are discussed in relation to the reported outcomes of the Swedish voluntary energy efficiency programme PFE.
► The estimated electricity efficiency gap is relatively stable over the time period and equals roughly 1 TWh for the sample mills (three times higher than the corresponding self-reported electricity savings in PFE).
► The results suggest that future energy efficiency programs could be better targeted at explicitly promoting technological progress as well as at addressing the most important information and behaviour-related failures.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Energy Policy - Volume 42, March 2012, Pages 569–579
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