Abstract The Paris Agreement goals require net‐zero CO2 emissions by mid‐century. The
European Commission in its recent proposal for climate and energy strategy for 2050 …

The improvement of energy efficiency of products is a key pillar of climate and energy
strategy in the European Union (EU). The first EU product policies were adopted in the late …

Deepening the reform of energy market allocation is an endogenous motivation that strongly
supports carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. China launched a pilot policy of energy …

Increasing the adoption of energy efficient technologies by households is one of the
formulated strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This paper presents a …

How well do our assumptions about the global challenges of energy, environment and
economic development fit the facts? Energy prices have varied hugely between countries …

Utilities are currently deploying smart electricity meters in millions of households worldwide
to collect fine-grained electricity consumption data. We present an approach to automatically …

This paper empirically investigates factors driving the adoption of energy-efficiency
measures by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Our analyses are based on cross …

Industrial energy-efficiency programs (IEEPs) are defined as one of the most popular
government policies that aim to reduce energy consumption in industrial energy-intensive …

China initiated its first energy rights trading (ERT) pilot in 2016 and had plans to assess the
policy's replicability in 2020. However, there is limited literature available that examines its …

Energy efficiency policies play a key role in the transformation to a 'green energy economy'.
In this paper, we take stock of the impacts of the existing energy efficiency policy instruments …