Sentences with phrase «so improvements in energy efficiency»
The Khazzoom - Brookes Postulate: As energy efficiency improves, people can afford more energy - intensive solutions, so improvements in energy efficiency can actually lead to more consumption, not less.
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So if we can convert that energy, it could give us very good improvement in fuel efficiency.»
The panel also tried to study tax credits for home energy efficiency improvements, but these programs «resisted analysis» because they are so complicated, which is a running theme in the report.
Japan, for example, has already made considerable investments into energy efficiency improvements, so its marginal abatement cost is higher than in countries that have not done so.
«Policies driving energy efficiency improvements have more than offset the cost of energy policies and have resulted in lower energy bills on average for UK households, as independent reports have found, so it would be wrong to suggest they are increasing people's bills.»
With a carbon price, some fossil fuels would continue to be extracted because it would still be cost - effective to do so: the market would decide efficiently which energy sources to use, where energy can be saved through energy efficiency improvements, and which fossil fuels to leave in the ground.