Wednesday 18 February 2015

Otmane El Rhazi : Energy efficiency improvements have largely offset effect of more, larger homes

Otmane El Rhazi from Today in Energy.



The growth in residential energy use has slowed to below the rate of household growth, meaning that per-household energy consumption has decreased. Analysis of EIA's Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) conducted since 1980 shows how improvements in energy efficiency reduced energy intensity enough to offset more than 70% of the growth in both the number of households and the size of dwellings.

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