Energy Efficiency Project News

Whether replacing a light bulb or buying a car, investing in energy-efficient products can help people to reduce their carbon footprint while saving money. So why do consumers still opt for energy-inefficient goods? In a new paper in the December issue of...

Robert Stavins, HEEP Director, Todd Gerarden, HEEP Pre-Doctoral Fellow, and Richard Newell, former HEEP Pre-Doctoral Fellow, co-authored an article published in December 2017 in the Journal of Economic Literature, titled “Assessing the Energy-Efficiency...

HEEP Faculty Fellow, Joseph Aldy, and University of Maryland Professor, Sébastien Houde, co-authored the first HEEP Policy Brief, based on the Discussion Paper, “Belt and Suspenders and More: The Incremental Impact of Energy Efficiency Subsidies in the...

The Harvard Environmental Economics Program—together with the Duke University Energy Initiative—has released a paper titled “ Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Gap.” The “energy-efficiency gap” refers to the apparent phenomenon that energy-efficient...

Several HEEP affiliates participated in a panel on January 3, 2015, “Explaining the Energy Paradox,” at the annual meeting of the Allied Social Science Association (which includes the American Economic Association) in Boston. “Energy paradox” (and the...

The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements—closely affiliated with HEEP— co-hosted an official side-event on energy efficiency at the Twentieth Conference of the Parties (COP-20) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which...

This joint initiative between Duke and Harvard University will advance understanding of the "energy efficiency gap" and the diverse factors that affect the adoption of energy-efficient equipment and practices. It focuses on differences between predicted...

The Harvard Environmental Economics Program, along with the Duke University Energy Initiative, hosted a two-day workshop on October 24-25, 2013 at the Harvard Kennedy School titled, "Evaluating the Energy Efficiency Gap." The energy-efficiency gap refers...

HEEP and the Duke University Energy Initiative (DUEI) co-sponsored, with the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), a workshop on the energy-efficiency gap at ZEW's headquarters in Mannheim, Germany, on March 12-13, 2014. Eighteen economists, almost...

HEEP has built an online bibliography of research literature on the "energy-efficiency gap." The "library" is publicly available here: www.zotero.org/groups/energy_efficiency_gap The bibliography is one product of an ongoing HEEP research project to...