Implementation and Impacts of Intergovernmental Grant Programs on Energy Efficiency in the USA

Tang, Tian; Hill, Hunter

doi:10.1007/s40518-018-0097-5

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“…As households and commercial building upgrades and retrofits are concerned, several programs may act as a benchmark for future ventures. From the USA market alone, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) directed as much as $58 billion towards EE; programs under ARRA targeted, inter alia, insulation of low-income homes as well lighting/appliance upgrades with more energy-efficient solutions [31].…”

Section: Energy Efficiency Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Setting up Energy Efficiency Management in Companies: Preliminary Lessons Learned from the Petroleum Industry

Gawin

Marcinkowski

2020

Energies

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In the era of expensive energy carriers and care for the climate, companies are keen to take action towards bolstering energy efficiency. Businesses often lack data on actual energy consumption to date, are rarely equipped with adequate analytical tools, and do not have the know-how regarding the transition itself. Developing energy efficiency management (EEM) for a given enterprise requires many steps, which ultimately unleash analytical potential and seamlessly integrate the EEM framework with the business model of a given company. This study scrutinizes and formalizes a reference process of pilot EEM implementation that involves external business partners in a multi-facility organization. The process is tailored to the specificity of the company’s operations as well as its technical and management capabilities regarding energy efficiency. The proposed approach, phased in time and involving multiple stakeholders, should be especially useful for practitioners running EEM-related projects characterized by uncertain and changing requirements.

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Section: Energy Efficiency Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Setting up Energy Efficiency Management in Companies: Preliminary Lessons Learned from the Petroleum Industry

Gawin

Marcinkowski

2020

Energies

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“…With the exception of Togeby et al (2012) that aimed at supporting the design of new taxes and incentives but completely disregarded concepts of risk and robustness, all other policy-related pieces of the reviewed literature performed an ex-post analysis of EE measures (i.e. Banerjee and Solomon, 2003;Ribeiro, 2018;Tang and Hill, 2018;Thoyre, 2015;Vine et al, 2006).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy efficiency promotion in Greece in light of risk: Evaluating policies as portfolio assets

Forouli

Gkonis

Νίκας

et al. 2019

Energy

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The European Union has set specific targets for reducing energy consumption, shifting the main focus of European energy policy towards a firm commitment to enhancing energy efficiency.In light of the limited progress reported in Greece's energy efficiency action plan, the objective of this paper is to help redesign the near-term national policy framework. In this respect, a riskoriented optimisation model is developed to support the optimal budget allocation to energy efficiency measures, with a view to achieving the 2020 national targets. The transdisciplinary methodological framework initially builds on the Energy Efficiency Action Plans for Greece and involves stakeholder engagement, multiple-criteria decision making and portfolio analysis.The evaluation of the policy instruments is based on two criteria, namely energy savings and implementation risk, under a set of technical and financial constraints. Finally, the robustness of both the optimal policy portfolios and the individual policies composing these portfolios is assessed. The results indicate that, given the financial and technical constraints, the 2020 target cannot be achieved. By stochastically analysing the impact of external uncertainty, three policies emerge as the most robust, while portfolios achieving savings of more than 1,000 kTOE until 2020 are found highly vulnerable to underlying uncertainties.

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“…An emerging line of inquiry approaches this issue in its multi-level governance context, highlighting how urban sustainability is constructed and contested by multiple tiers of government and spheres of governance (Betsill & Bulkeley, 2006; Bulkeley & Betsill, 2005; Feiock et al, 2017). These studies have examined the effects of state mandates (Tang et al, 2010), intergovernmental grants (Lim & Bowen, 2018; Tang & Hill, 2018), and interlocal collaboration (Deslatte & Feiock, 2019; Hawkins et al, 2018; Yi et al, 2017a). For example, Homsy and Warner (2015) show that a conducive policy and political atmosphere from the state government encourages local sustainability innovation.…”

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Explaining Sustainability Innovation in City Governments: Innovation Mechanisms and Discretion Types in Multi-Level Governance

Zhang

Yang

2022

The American Review of Public Administration

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While existing studies have examined the separate effects of local governments’ internal conditions and external environment on local innovation, few have paid attention to their interactive effects. This study examines whether state-level rules regarding local discretion moderate the effects of city governments’ slack resources and learning, using local sustainability innovation as an example. We distinguish two types of discretion (fiscal and statutory) granted by state governments. Applying a difference-in-differences (DDD) approach with a longitudinal dataset of 238 U.S. cities, we find that fiscal discretion strengthens the positive effect of fiscal slack while statutory discretion enhances the positive effect of learning. The findings uncover the complex interactions between multilevel institutional arrangements and local innovation mechanisms.

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Implementation and Impacts of Intergovernmental Grant Programs on Energy Efficiency in the USA

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

Setting up Energy Efficiency Management in Companies: Preliminary Lessons Learned from the Petroleum Industry

Setting up Energy Efficiency Management in Companies: Preliminary Lessons Learned from the Petroleum Industry

Energy efficiency promotion in Greece in light of risk: Evaluating policies as portfolio assets

Explaining Sustainability Innovation in City Governments: Innovation Mechanisms and Discretion Types in Multi-Level Governance

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