Energy Conservation Trends Understanding the Factors That Affect Conservation Gains in the US Economy.

摘要

This report presents the results of an updated analysis of energy-conservation trends conducted by the Department of Energy (DOE). The purpose of the analysis was to document and explain the conservation gains that have been achieved and to estimate the effect of lower energy prices on additional gains that are likely to occur. The results provided the basis for evaluating conservation's past and future role in an energy policy context. The results presented in this report cover the period from 1972 to 1986 retrospectively, the recent experience from 1986 to 1989, and the future through 1995. Changes in energy-use and -efficiency patterns are examined for the US economy as a whole, for each end-use sector -- residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation -- and in comparison to trends in other industrialized countries.