Buildings and residential energy consumption (heating, cooling etc.)
In this lecture, we cover the second part of emissions in cities: residential emissions. They include emissions caused by heating, cooling, cooking and by all electrical appliances at home. Many policies are implemented at the state and local levels to reduce these emissions, but such policies are not easy to design.
This course will be presented by a guest speaker.
Info on the moodle page of the course (restricted to Science Po students).
Required reading
- Gillingham, Kenneth, David Rapson, et Gernot Wagner. « The Rebound Effect and Energy Efficiency Policy ». Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 10, nᵒ 1 (January 2016): 68‑88. The pdf is also available here.
- As an introduction to this paper, you can read these two very short texts : “Rebound effects” and “Jevons paradox and rebound effect”
- Housing’s energy efficiency: renovating public action (2024) a note by Gabrielle Fack and Louis-Gaëtan Giraudet for the French Council of Economic Analysis.
- The executive summary of the report “Accelerating Building Efficiency: Eight Actions for Urban Leaders” (2016) by the World Ressource Institute.
To know more
- Energy sufficiency and rebound effects. Concept paper by the European Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
- Why ‘rebound effects’ may cut energy savings in half (2021) on CarbonBrief
- The Building Efficiency Accelerator
- [In French] Analyse socio-économique de la rénovation énergétique des logements (2024) by Louis-Gaëtan Giraudet and Lucas Vivier, a note for the French Council of Economic Analysis which details the state of knowledge on the costs and benefits of energy renovation of housing, and the methods for quantifying the potential for profitable operations. It updates a previous report made by France Stratégie in 2022.
- How to set energy efficiency requirements for existing buildings (2019) by C40.