What is energy efficiency?

Patterson, Murray

doi:10.1016/0301-4215(96)00017-1

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“…For instance, Patterson [26] states that energy efficiency generally refers to using less energy to produce the same amount of services or useful output. In the industrial sector, energy efficiency is thus typically measured by the amount of energy required to produce a ton of product.…”

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Economic development and energy consumption in the GCC: an international sectoral analysis

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The relationship between economic development and energy consumption has important policy and geopolitical implications intersecting with future energy demand, economic growth and climate change. All countries in the GCC share a common goal to transition to economies less reliant on oil and gas. As part of this transition diversification and energy efficiency strategies have become major strategic priorities. If successful, such policies are likely to significantly change the relationship between domestic energy consumption and GDP. To inform discussion on this topic, this paper assesses the relationship between energy consumption at a sector level and GDP in the GCC relative to a reference group of OECD countries. While there is variation within each grouping and across sectors, the clear result is that energy consumption and economic growth are strongly linked to all sectors in the GCC. This is in contrast to the OECD group where energy and GDP have decoupled. These results highlight both the scope for further improvement in energy efficiency and the need for deeper integration of energy-intensive industry and higher value-added activities and services. We suggest a greater focus on energy productivity-or how maximum value can be obtained from energy consumption-can help guide industrial policy and increase the profile of energy efficiency efforts across the GCC.

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Economic development and energy consumption in the GCC: an international sectoral analysis

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“…Patterson (1996) broadly defined energy as (23) Energy ef f iciency = Useful output of a process Energy input of a process .…”

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A Smart Grid-Based Home Energy Aware System

2017

Sensors and Materials

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In this study, we propose the use of a home energy aware system (HEAS) and an intuitive user interface to help household occupants to be aware of the states of different types of power generation and unconsciously improve their electrical use behavior, and thereby achieve the goal of reducing mains electricity consumption. Because of the application of a smart grid and a smart meter infrastructure, smart homes can use various energy management approaches, such as alternative energy, energy storage, and mains electricity. This system employs the National Instruments data acquisition (NI DAQ) energy data retrieval system and LabVIEW software as core programming technologies, providing four power usage reminders: alternative energy use reminder, stored energy power use reminder, insufficient stored energy warning, and mains electricity use reminder.

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“…Energy efficiency had been on agenda of most governments in the developed countries around the world, especially for public policy and energy sustainability issues (Patterson 1996). The increases in energy efficiency would promote industrial competitiveness, energy security, and environmental surroundings.…”

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Quantitative Approach to Select Energy Benchmarking Parameters for Drinking Water Utilities

Chanpiwat

Sinha

2014

Pipelines 2014

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Energy efficiency is currently a hot topic on all regional, national, and global stages. Accurate measurements on how energy is being used over a period of time can improve performance of the drinking water utility substantially and reduce energy consumption. Nevertheless, the drinking water industry does not have a specific benchmarking practice to evaluate its energy performance of the system. Therefore, there are no standards to compare energy use between water utilities that have a variety of system characteristics. The goal of this research is to develop quantitative approach to select energy benchmarking parameters of the water system, so the drinking water utilities can use those parameters to improve their energy efficiency. In addition to a typical benchmarking of drinking water utilities, the energy benchmarking can specifically compare energy efficiency of a utility with other utilities nationwide.The research developed a regression model based on the statistical representation of the energy use and descriptive characteristics of the drinking water utilities data throughout the U.S.Methodologies to eliminate singularity and multicollinearity from collinear survey dataset are discussed. The all possible regressions were chosen as parameters selection methodology to identify a subset of most significant parameters, i.e. system characteristics, that can mathematically correspond to energy use across different utilities. As a result, the energy benchmarking would be able to calculate the predicted total energy use of the system from given system characteristics.iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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What is energy efficiency?

Cited by 926 publications

References 21 publications

Economic development and energy consumption in the GCC: an international sectoral analysis

Economic development and energy consumption in the GCC: an international sectoral analysis

A Smart Grid-Based Home Energy Aware System

Quantitative Approach to Select Energy Benchmarking Parameters for Drinking Water Utilities

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