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Title

Energy services analysis : an alternative approach for identifying opportunities to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases / Keith Crane ... [et al.].

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Crane, Keith, 1953-
• Rand Environment, Energy, and Economic Development (Program)
• United States. Department of Energy. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

Description

xx, 61 p.; 28 cm.

Summary

This technical report uses energy service analysis (ESA) to identify and evaluate new means to reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. Most analyses in this area focus on making existing processes more efficient. This report uses ESA to examine possibilities for instead changing how a service is delivered. The report introduces ESA, explains how it differs from conventional approaches and how this type of analysis can be conducted, uses an ESA framework to analyze how changes in the provision of two services — news delivery and personal mobility — might result in reductions in GHG emissions, suggests other areas in which ESA could be applied, and ends with some thoughts on using ESA more broadly. The authors find that technical improvements in any specific sector may not generate per capita reductions in energy use or GHG emissions as large as reductions possible through changing the means by which people achieve the ends currently provided in those sectors (e.g., news, social interaction). However, reductions are constrained by how well the alternative (e.g., e-readers, vehicle sharing) substitutes for the existing means of providing the service.

Subject

• Energy auditing
• Energy conservation
• Greenhouse gas mitigation

Note

• "Environment, energy, and economic development -- a RAND infrastructure, safety, and environment program"--t.p.
• "Sponsored by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy of the U.S. Department of Energy"--t.p.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Energy Services Analysis -- Communications: Electronic Delivery of Daily Written News -- Personal Transportation: Sharing, Rather Than Owning, Vehicles -- Applying Energy Services Analysis to Other Contexts {u2013} Conclusion {u2013} Appendix: Energy Consumption Associated with E-Readers.

ISBN

• 9780833060365 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0833060368 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012010449

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library