Is efficient sufficient?

eceee report

• Is efficient sufficient? The case for shifting our emphasis in energy specifications to progressive efficiency and sufficiency (pdf), 22 March 2010

Background reading

eceee Summer Study papers

• Jørgen S. Nørgard: Efficient technology in an inefficient economy, eceee 1995 Summer Study proceedings
• L. Wijshoff & Sophie Attali: Energy+ cold appliances beyond the A label, thanks to pan-European procurement, eceee 2003 Summer Study proceedings
• Hal Wilhite & Jørgen S. Nørgard: A case for self-deception in energy policy, eceee 2003 Summer Study proceedings

ACEEE Summer Study papers

• Mithra Moezzi: The Predicament of Efficiency (pdf), ACEEE 1998 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
• Jeffrey Harris et al: Don’t Supersize Me! Toward a Policy of Consumption-Based Energy Efficiency, ACEEE 2006 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
• Chris Granda et al: Tackling Efficiency Paradoxes. Possible Responses to Today’s Landscape of “Energy-Efficient” 10,000 sq. ft. Houses and 60-inch Televisions, ACEEE 2008 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
• Reuben Deumling: Thinking Outside the Refrigerator: Shutting Down Power Plants with NAECA? ACEEE 2004 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings

Energy Efficiency

• Jeffrey Harris et al: Towards a sustainable energy balance: progressive efficiency and the return of energy conservation, Energy Efficiency 2008 (available for eceee members from Energy Efficiency, online version, Issue No. 3, August 2008)

Other links & documents

• Jack Barkenbus: Putting Energy Efficiency into a Sustainability Context: The Example of Refrigerators (pdf), Environment, October 2006
• Linda Baker: Great big green monster mansions, salon.com, 7 July 2004
• Martin Holladay: Raising the Bar for Energy Star Homes, 29 April 2009