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Evaluating the Rebound Effect Caused by Development and Application of Energy Efficient Technologies in a Sector of Economy

Shaddel, Sara | 2016

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 48883 (46)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Energy Engineering
  6. Advisor(s): Saboohi, Yadollah; Roshandel, Ramin
  7. Abstract:
  8. Due to rapid growth of energy consumption in recent years, extensive efforts to improve energy efficiency in production and consumption sectors have been done in order to reduce energy consumption in these sectors. The primary assumption is that improving energy efficiency has a one-to-one impact on reducing energy consumption, but in practice this is not true in all cases. In fact, by elevating energy efficiency, the cost of energy services is decreased and, thus, remained accessible income is increased. This issue will increase the demand for all energy and non-energy commodities, therefore, it will have influence on their supply. The effects of this variation in supply can be spread in the whole economy and subsequently influence the demand for production factors (labor and capital), and other economic variables, too. This phenomenon is known as the economy-wide rebound effect.The aim of this project is to evaluate the rebound effect of technological improvements (improved energy efficiency) in one of the economic sectors. In order to assess the economy-wide rebound effect, a comprehensive model is required in which both the technological details and the economic feedbacks should be considered. For this purpose, in this study, an integrated model has been developed through the soft link so that its convergence has been achieved after 5 iterations. The results obtained during the convergence suggest that increasing prices of energy commodity and its consequence on reducing the energy demand in different economic sectors can lead to economic growth. Furthermore, the results obtained after convergence are studied in the two scenarios which are business as usual scenario and improved energy efficiency scenario show that the rebound effect resulting from 3 % of energy efficiency for gasoline vehicles in the transportation sector will be 16 %. In other words, only 84 % of savings resulting from this improved efficiency can be achieved in reality
  9. Keywords:
  10. Integrated Model ; Energy Efficiency ; Technology Application ; Rebound Effect ; Economy-Wide Effect ; Models Integration

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