A retrospective investigation of energy efficiency standards: policies may have accelerated long term declines in appliance costs

We perform a retrospective investigation of multi-decade trends in price and life-cycle cost (LCC) for home appliances in periods with and without energy efficiency (EE) standards and labeling polices. In contrast to the classical picture of the impact of efficiency standards, the introduction and u...

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Main Authors: R D Van Buskirk, C L S Kantner, B F Gerke, S Chu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2014-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/11/114010