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TRANSPOSE Working Paper No7: Stromsparen in Privathaushalten -
aktuelle europäische Ansätze und ihre umweltpolitische Reichweite
Hildegard Pamme - 2010, 22 pages (Abstract: DE EN) (Download Paper)
Abstract
The electricity consumption of private households has increased continuously in Europe. New initiatives are trying to reverse this trend. Are they able to do so? This article examines two current European directives, the Directive 2006/32/EC on Energy End-Use Efficiency and Energy Services and the Ecodesign Directive 2005/32/EC. On what kind of measures do they focus? How can these measures be assessed within the lines of the European energy efficiency and climate policy? The challenges of energy efficiency and climate policies are intensely discussed in Europe. Thereby, Energy Efficiency Policies play a decisive role. The analysis of measures in both directives comes to contradictory findings: The optional target of the Directive on Energy End-Use Efficiency and Energy Services is only able to cause impulses in member states, which have, so far, pursued no independent strategies. From an environmental perspective, the minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) on stand-by losses, circulators and domestic lighting products are true trend-setters. MEPS on domestic cold appliances and televisions can be considered as less ambitious. For the future, the concrete effects of implementing the Directives within the individual member states must be examined in more detail. For this, the conceptual frame of this article - the policy-oriented analysis of administration - can be very helpful.
