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Effect of Thermal Improvements in Housing on Residential Energy Demand
Author(s) -
HSUEH LIMIN,
GERNER JENNIFER L.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of consumer affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.582
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1745-6606
pISSN - 0022-0078
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6606.1993.tb00739.x
Subject(s) - energy (signal processing) , economics , energy demand , natural resource economics , environmental economics , production (economics) , microeconomics , statistics , mathematics
Many estimates of the savings resulting from energy conserving modifications to a house do not take into account the role that such modifications play in the production of house warmth. Consumers can be expected to take some of these savings in increased house warmth as well as in lower demand for residential energy. The model estimated in this paper shows that when this effect is accounted for savings in energy due to energy conserving modifications are considerably less than anticipated without this effect.