Energy Efficiency
Policymakers can encourage consumers to use energy more efficiently using local, state, or federal programs designed to incentivize or discourage certain patterns of energy use. RFF experts are examining these policies to help lawmakers better understand their effectiveness and close the existing energy efficiency gap.
Sizing Up the Energy-Efficiency Gap
Learn why more people aren't making energy-efficiency improvements.
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Press Release — Apr 1, 2020
Major New Study Charts Course to Net Zero Industrial Emissions
Interdisciplinary team assesses technology and policy strategies for industrial decarbonization
Journal Article — Mar 29, 2020
Technologies and Policies to Decarbonize Global Industry: Review and Assessment of Mitigation Drivers through 2070
Fully decarbonizing global industry is essential to achieving climate stabilization, and reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050–2070 is necessary to limit global warming to 2 °C. This paper assembles and evaluates technical and policy interventions, both on the supply side and on the demand side.
Issue Brief — Dec 18, 2019
Energy-as-a-Service: A Business Model for Expanding Deployment of Low-Carbon Technologies
An exploration of how the Energy-as-a-Service model has benefited consumers by promoting advanced technology and its potential for expanding the deployment of low-carbon technologies.
Journal Article — Mar 29, 2020
Technologies and Policies to Decarbonize Global Industry: Review and Assessment of Mitigation Drivers through 2070
Fully decarbonizing global industry is essential to achieving climate stabilization, and reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050–2070 is necessary to limit global warming to 2 °C. This paper assembles and evaluates technical and policy interventions, both on the supply side and on the demand side.
Issue Brief — Dec 18, 2019
Energy-as-a-Service: A Business Model for Expanding Deployment of Low-Carbon Technologies
An exploration of how the Energy-as-a-Service model has benefited consumers by promoting advanced technology and its potential for expanding the deployment of low-carbon technologies.
Working Paper — Nov 7, 2019
Can we make social information programs more effective? The role of identity and values
This paper examines the role of environmental values in social information programs.
Workshop/Seminar — Nov 4, 2014
Energy Efficiency in EPA's Clean Power Plan: Using Building Block #4 to Set and Meet Emissions Goals
November 4, 2014: This webinar, co-hosted by Resources for the Future and the Electric Power Research Institute, addressed aspects of the opportunities and challenges for energy efficiency under EPA’s Clean Power Plan.
Workshop/Seminar — Dec 12, 2013
Does Asymmetric Information in Residential Rental Markets Lead to an Energy Efficiency Gap?
Workshop/Seminar — May 9, 2013
Closing the "Energy-Efficiency Gap": An Empirical Analysis of Property Assessed Clean Energy
Press Release — Apr 1, 2020
Major New Study Charts Course to Net Zero Industrial Emissions
Interdisciplinary team assesses technology and policy strategies for industrial decarbonization
Media Highlight — Mar 27, 2017
Trump Wants to Cut Programs That Help Buildings Save Energy. This New Study Says They Work.
Media Highlight — May 4, 2016
U.S. Cities Taking Lead in Green Building
Resources Radio: Energy Inefficiency, with RFF's Joshua Blonz
Host Daniel Raimi and Joshua Blonz, a postdoctoral fellow at RFF, talk about his recent research on an energy efficiency program in California, the...
Congressional Testimony: Principles for Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform
An effective energy tax policy that serves the best interests of the American people should correct market failures, promote cost-effectiveness, an...
Testing for Energy Paradoxes in Competitive Industries
For years economists have debated why so many consumers appear to act irrationally when choosing not to buy energy efficient appliances, lights and...