Reviewing successful and/or innovative policies to drive an energy efficiency strategy: case study for France

摘要

Information available worldwide about energy efficiency policiesand programmes has become abundant. A major problemfor practitioners is how to use this large amount of material forimproving their domestic practices. This paper presents the resultsof a study by Enerdata on behalf of the French Agency forEnergy Efficiency and Environment (ADEME), whose objectiveswere to build a catalogue of innovative energy efficiencymeasures and to highlight their potential and the degree towhich they could be implemented in the French context. Thestudy covered all sectors except the services (covered in a separatestudy). A grading system, based on the ADEME priorities,was used to compare and rank 47 measures selected out of 108,so that the practitioners can easily identify their strengths andweaknesses. In parallel, qualitative analysis was also done. Thehighest-ranking measures were detected in the industry andtransport; the reason was that these sectors required lower publicsupport than other sectors such as the residential sector. Thestudy has been used by ADEME to identify foreign best practicesand thus to strengthen its policy benchmarking.