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Energy Efficiency and Industrial Output: The Case of the Iron and Steel Industry

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  • Flues, Florens
  • Rübbelke, Dirk
  • Vögele, Stefan

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The iron and steel industry is one of the most carbon emitting and energy consuming sectors in Europe. At the same time this sector is of high economic importance for the European Union. Therefore, while public environmental and energy policies target this sector, there is political concern that it suffers too much from these policy measures. Various actors fear a policy-induced decline in steel production, and possibly an international reallocation of production plants. This study analyzes the role that input prices and public policies may play in attaining an environmentally more sustainable steel production and how this - in turn - affect total steel output. As we find out for examples of major European steel producing countries, a kind of rebound effect of energy-efficiency improvements in steel production on total steel output may arise.

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  • Flues, Florens & Rübbelke, Dirk & Vögele, Stefan, 2013. "Energy Efficiency and Industrial Output: The Case of the Iron and Steel Industry," Energy: Resources and Markets 162379, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:feemer:162379
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.162379
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    1. Desmond Lilao (PhD), 2025. "Evaluating the European Union’s Green Deal Role in Climate Change Mitigation and Sustainability Transitions (2030-2050)," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 9(5), pages 280-290, May.
    2. Wang, Peng & Li, Wen & Kara, Sami, 2017. "Cradle-to-cradle modeling of the future steel flow in China," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 117(PA), pages 45-57.

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    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
    • L61 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - Metals and Metal Products; Cement; Glass; Ceramics
    • Q43 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Energy and the Macroeconomy
    • Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General

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