Invisible energy policies: A new agenda for energy demand reduction

Royston, Sarah; Selby, Jan; Shove, Elizabeth

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2018.08.052

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“…Figure 1 represents the initiatives taken by SREDA to implement energy efficient technologies at the industries. Energy related issues are acquainted mainly by national policy papers [33,34]. Electrical energy generation has been the key feature at the energy policies of Bangladesh.…”

Section: Energy Efficiency Programs In Bangladeshmentioning

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Empirical Investigation of Barriers and Driving Forces for Efficient Energy Management Practices in Non-Energy-Intensive Manufacturing Industries of Bangladesh

Hasan¹,

Hossain²,

Tuhin

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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Improved energy efficiency is being considered as one of the significant challenges to mitigating climate change all over the world. While developed countries have already adopted energy management and auditing practices to improve energy efficiency, the developing countries lag far behind. There are a limited number of studies which have been conducted in the context of developing countries, which mostly revolve around highly energy-intensive sectors. This study looks into the existence and importance of the challenges to and motivating forces for the adoption of energy management practices in Bangladesh, a developing country, focusing on the non-energy-intensive manufacturing industries. Conducted as a multiple case study, the results indicate the existence of several barriers towards adopting and implementing the management of energy practices in the non-energy-intensive industries of Bangladesh, where among them, “other preferences for capital venture” and “inadequate capital expenditure” are the most dominant. This study also identified a number of driving forces that can accelerate the acceptance of energy efficiency practices, such as the demands from the owner, loans, subsidies, and a lowered cost–benefit ratio. Findings of this study could assist the concerned stakeholders to develop beneficial policies and a proper regulatory framework for the non-energy-intensive industries of developing countries like Bangladesh.

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Section: Energy Efficiency Programs In Bangladeshmentioning

confidence: 99%

Empirical Investigation of Barriers and Driving Forces for Efficient Energy Management Practices in Non-Energy-Intensive Manufacturing Industries of Bangladesh

Hasan¹,

Hossain²,

Tuhin

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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“…Royston et al. () continue in this vein, sensitive to the energy implications of policies set at all institutional scales, from the local to the state, albeit without explicitly admitting a clear role for community self‐governance (for the latter see Denegri‐Knott et al., ; Yates, ).…”

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Policy, polycentrism, and practice: Governance imaginaries in sustainability transitions

Smith

2019

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Funding informationMasaryk University, Postdoc@MUNI (Grant / Award Number: CZ.02.2.69/0.0/ 0.0/16_027/ 0008360).This paper foregrounds the under-theorised figure of the policy maker in the environmental social sciences. To do so, it focuses on the case of "social practice theory" (SPT), a school of thought which has gained prominence in human geography and further afield in recent years. The paper outlines the context of environmental policy literatures and identifies a tension in many treatments of the topic by practice-oriented scholars: while it focuses on emergent social change, the traditional policy imaginary which has circulated in this literature often portrays benign, top-down policy makers who, given adequate information, are amenable to conducting the right policy "intervention." A "governance on the inside" approach is proposed as an alternative imaginary, drawing from prominent work on polycentric governance and community economies in geographical and economic scholarship, as well as more recent work in SPT itself. Opportunities for a geographical mapping of policy difference and reflexive engagement are highlighted, hinting at rich future possibilities.diverse economies, governance, participation, policy, polycentrism, social practice theory 1 | INTRODUCTION This paper examines the performative implications of scholarly imaginaries around policynamely, who is conceived as a policy maker and how policy-driven social change is deemed to occurexploring how current perspectives in this area can obscure, promote, or hold back exploration of environmental governance alternatives. It constitutes a provocation to think seriously about policy relevance and policy makers, given the sometimes under-specified usage of such terms among researchers searching for policy "impact." Social Practice Theory (SPT), which examines how the rise of particular configurations of practices result in (un)sustainable societies, provides a case study for how social scientists conceive of policy and environmental interventions. The relevance of SPT stems from both its recent prominence and expansion in the social sciences, andmore importantlythe critical stance of SPT scholarship towards hegemonic concepts in environmental policy-making. While immediate generalisation from SPT to the wider environmental transitions literature and beyond is not appropriate, there are certainly lessons to be gleaned from it.The paper proceeds as follows. Section 2 outlines the context for environmental policy amid a narrowing of policy questions in a neoliberal milieu. In this section, a useful (albeit imperfect) distinction emerges between "policy" and "government," on the one hand, and "governance," on the other. Rather than repeat the theoretical foundations of SPT at length (see instead Everts et al., 2011), section 3 more closely examines paradigmatic treatments of policy in SPT scholarship. A tension is noted, whereby, contrary to the focus of SPT on emergent social change, the predominant circulating imaginary ---

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“…As economies develop, households gain the ability to consume more energy services, and in turn reconfigure national energy demand patterns (Reddy 1991, Wolfram et al 2012, Royston et al 2018. Domestic energy use already accounts for a quarter of global final energy demand and a significant portion of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Johansson et al 2012, Abrahamse andShwom 2018).…”

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Energy demand transitions and climate mitigation in low-income urban households in India

Khosla

Sircar

Bhardwaj

2019

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Growing household energy demand, particularly in developing countries starting from a low base of consumption, is an important driver of current and future greenhouse gas emissions. Yet, our understanding of transitioning residential energy demand in developing country contexts is limited. This paper discusses changing energy service demands in urban low-income households in India, an emerging economy where the largest future growth in energy demand globally is projected to occur, and where 12 million new low-income homes for the urban poor are to be built by the government between 2015 and 2022. Based on mixed quantitative and qualitative methods comprising of surveys, interviews and focus group discussions, we analyze two inter-related questions: how does the demand for energy services change as the ability of low-income households to consume increases; and how do energy related behaviors influence household electricity consumption? We analyze the data collected to rank households according to their ability to consume and to identify the types of, and progression in, energy services acquired. The appliances and associated services pursued are lights, fans, televisions, and refrigerators, with varied energy efficiencies. Analogously, we quantify the influence of behavior in determining electricity consumption, and show that the inclusion of socio-demographic and behavioral factors explain a significant proportion (51%) of the variance in household electricity consumption, along with the role of material factors such as building physical characteristics and appliance stocks. We complement the statistical analysis with qualitative fieldwork and discuss changing energy related behaviors as the ability of households to consume increases. We conclude with recommendations for climate actions that are compatible with development in the growing lowincome housing stock.

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Invisible energy policies: A new agenda for energy demand reduction

Cited by 88 publications

References 67 publications

Empirical Investigation of Barriers and Driving Forces for Efficient Energy Management Practices in Non-Energy-Intensive Manufacturing Industries of Bangladesh

Empirical Investigation of Barriers and Driving Forces for Efficient Energy Management Practices in Non-Energy-Intensive Manufacturing Industries of Bangladesh

Policy, polycentrism, and practice: Governance imaginaries in sustainability transitions

Energy demand transitions and climate mitigation in low-income urban households in India

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