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Energy Conservation Potential in the Housing and in the Industrial Sectors in France: What is the Real Potential

Panel: Panel 5: Energy Policy for a Sustainable Environment

Authors:
Didier Bossebouef, Ademe
Cécile Richards, Ademe

Abstract

Since the beginning of the 199Os, France has experienced a slow-down in its energy efficiency trend which is a cause of concern. Is there any more achievable energy efficiency potential? Are the barriers to energy efficiency more heavy, since energy prices remain low and since less direct incentives are provided to users? How many more opportunities to improve energy efficiency could be realised in order to face global warming issues?

To answer to these crucial issues, we refer to several studies aiming at assessing the energy conservation potential both in the industry and space heating in the housing sector for the year 2005 and 2015. Based on very desagregated approaches (180 technologies for the industry and and 11 measures for 782 categories for the housing sector), cost conservation curves have been built up from assessment of the speed of diffusion and cost of each technic. Results show that there is still a important potential for energy conservation of which the amount is in the same order of magnitude than of the achieved energy saving during the last 20 years. Results will be presented at a desagregated level illustrating the discrepancies amon fuels, sub-sectors or categories of households. For the industrial sector, an assessment of the CO_2 emissions evicted will be provided as well as the impact of the CO_2 tax on the level of the energy conservation potential.

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