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Effectiveness of Energy Efficiency Certificates as Drivers for Industrial Energy Efficiency Projects

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  • Giacomo Di Foggia

    (Department of Business Administration Finance, Management and Law, University of Milano-Bicocca Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8. Milan, Italy)

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The efficiency of policies in steering the implementation of energy efficiency (EE) projects has multiple implications including economic opportunity such as reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, security of supply, technological development opportunity for industry. One of the key new instruments foreseen to support EE improvements is the EE certificate (EEC). Focusing on the industrial business case, the purpose of this paper is two-fold. First the energy performance contact is analyzed and discussed, second this paper shows how EECs concur in supporting the viability of the investment. Specifically, results suggest including this instrument the payback time reduction would be around 20% below the baseline hypothesis

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  • Giacomo Di Foggia, 2016. "Effectiveness of Energy Efficiency Certificates as Drivers for Industrial Energy Efficiency Projects," International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Econjournals, vol. 6(2), pages 273-280.
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    Keywords

    Energy Efficiency Certificates; Energy Efficiency; Energy Policy; Payback Time; Energy Performance Contract;
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    JEL classification:

    • H3 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents
    • L52 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Industrial Policy; Sectoral Planning Methods
    • Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy

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