“…This technique has recently been applied in works that analyse the evolution of energy consumption and energy efficiency in different countries, such as: Australia (Sandu and Petchey, 2009);China (Ma and Stern, 2008;Liao et al, 2007 andZhao et al, 2010); Greece (Hatzigeorgiou et al, 2011); Holland (Mulder and Groot, 2013); Lithuania (Balezentis et al, 2011); South Africa (InglesiLotz and Pouris, 2012); Turkey (Ediger and Huvaz, 2006); and the OECD (Mulder and Groot, 2012). However, this same technique has been used for the analysis of the energy consumption and efficiency of some specific economic sectors, as in the following works: the industrial sector (Cahill and Gallachóir, 2010;Salta et al, 2009;Bhattacharyya and Ussanarassamee, 2005); the transport sector (Zhang et al, 2011;Sorrell et al, 2009); the residential sector (Rogan et al, 2012); the services sector (Mairet and Decellas, 2009); the electricity sector (Inglesi-Lotz and Blignaut, 2011); and, the domestic sector (Hojjati and Wade, 2012).…”