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Award/Grant Name: An empirical general equilibrium analysis of the factors that govern the extent of energy rebound effects in the UK economy
Award/Grant Holder: Dr Karen Turner
Start Date: 01/10/2007 End Date: 30/09/2010
Award/Grant Description

Issues of energy supply are now taken to be both a worldwide problem and a problem for individual national and regional governments. A number of mechanisms are being employed to reduce energy use. An important one is increased energy efficiency. However, there are questions about whether increased energy efficiency actually reduces energy use, due to the notion of ‘rebound effects’. Rebound effects occur when improvements in energy efficiency actually stimulate the direct and indirect demand for energy in production and/or consumption because of the impact of the increased efficiency on the effective, or implicit, price of energy.

The objective of this project is to conduct empirical analyses of the extent and nature of economy-wide macroeconomic ‘rebound’ effects in the UK economy in response to microeconomic increases in energy efficiency. This will involve developing a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the UK economy. While the model is system-wide, the analysis will focus on key production sectors and consumption activities that are likely to be important in determining economy-wide rebound effects. It will also examine a wide range of policy scenarios, including detailed explorations of the impacts of costly energy efficiency changes and resistance to the adoption of new (energy-saving) technology.

Keywords: Energy demand; energy supply; computable general equilibrium analysis; rebound effects
Award/Grant Amount ESRC Grant Number Institution Discipline Award/Grant Type
£193,612.74 RES-061-25-0010 Economics First Grant
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  Title Type URL Author Published
Local energy supply and negative rebound effects Presentation / Lecture Turner, Karen 30/06/2010 14:42
Energy efficiency, rebound effects and the environmental Kuznets curve Presentation / Lecture Turner, Karen 30/06/2010 10:03
Energy efficiency and the rebound effect Presentation / Lecture Turner, Karen 31/03/2010 14:03
Supply constraints on rebound effects of increased energy efficiency : negative multiplier and disinvestment effects Other Publications / Reports Turner, Karen 17/03/2010 18:00
Energy efficiency and the rebound effect Other Publications / Reports Turner, Karen 12/01/2010 9:40
Energy efficiency improvements and rebound effects : some lessons from the Scottish case Other Publications / Reports Turner, Karen 12/01/2010 9:34
Energy rebound in the UK Newsletters Turner, Karen 17/12/2009 17:08
The rebound effect with energy production : a partial equilibrium analysis Discussion Papers Allan, Grant 17/12/2009 10:47
Rebound and disinvestment effects in refined oil consumption and supply resulting from an increase in energy efficiency in the Scottish commercial transport sector Journal Article Anson, Sam 29/10/2009 12:44
Negative rebound and disinvestment effects in response to an improvement in energy efficiency in the UK economy Journal Article Turner, Karen 29/10/2009 12:35

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