Model Effectiviteit Instrumenten-Energiebesparing Industrie (MEI-Energie)
2001
Within the context of the Kyoto Protocol insight into industrial energy
savings and the influence of policy instruments is desirable, both for
the past and the future. By virtue of its legal central policy analysis
function, the RIVM is currently developing an energy-saving model for
industrial firms, called MEI-Energy (Model for Effectiveness of Policy
Instruments for the Energy-Saving in Industry). The outline of this
model was based on the results of an RIVM exploratory study on three
existing energy-saving computer models, determinants of energy use and
empirical data. This report discusses the structure of the research
model. The model structure is discussed here. The model describes the
investment behaviour of firms within an industrial sector towards
energy-saving techniques. Industrial firms are spurred on to invest in
such techniques by several factors, based on the following four
categories: technical energy-saving measures (e.g. complexity,
investment costs); the industrial sector (e.g. innovation efforts,
willingness to invest); social surroundings (e.g. social pressure,
activity of environmental interest groups); policy instruments and
policy environment (e.g. levies, subsidies, voluntary agreements,
enforcement). Guided strongly by these factors, firms decide whether
they will or will not implement an energy-saving technique. A diffusion
curve can be constructed per technique on the basis of two types of
decision-making: (1) an economic-rational decision based on quantitative
criteria such as energy prices, depreciation terms of techniques,
investment costs etc.; (2) a 'softer' decision-making process in which
such factors as attitude of the sector towards the environment and the
pressure exerted by policy instruments play an important role (the
so-called 'driving forces'). The model calculates the diffusion curve
per technique per sector. The diffusion curves of all techniques are
aggregated to compute the total energy saving of a sector. Since policy
instruments are central to the model, the Centre of Clean Technology and
Environmental Policy (University of Twente) has been asked to review the
model. The results of the review and translated comments on the model
are included here.
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