CERE and USBE together with Övik Energi, Umeå Energi and Skellefteå Kraft are in the process of starting a new competence center that will focus on solving energy issues that could arise in a future sustainable energy landscape as well as facilitating for policy-makers how to best move us into a sustainable future. Join the online discussions on Tomorrows energy landscape – what it looks like and how do we get there? On January 26th at 13.00. (Click on headline to learn more)
With what feels like the everlasting pandemic, the watch list grows thin. Fear not. We bring you throwback films from 2019 when we could actually gather and listen to our young CERE researchers talk about waste, power, nudging and electricity markets. Let yourself be transported to a happier time. More specifically November 2019 when CERE celebrated 10 years.
It begins with a short film with photos from CERE's first 10 years followed by the morning session November 28, 2019 "Meet the young scientists of CERE"
News article from umu.se A new thesis from Umeå University studies how energy efficiency and environmental regulation affect the Swedish industrial sector.
Golnaz Amjadi has studied the impacts of energy efficiency improvements in Swedish manufacturing firms using a detailed firm-level datasets for the Swedish manufacturing industry consisting of 14 sectors spanning the period 1997–2008. Her research suggests that manufacturing firms have generally potential to improve energy efficiency, but paradoxically, improved energy efficiency can increase a firm’s energy use.
- Broadly speaking, the main source(s) of energy inefficiency are long run shortcomings mainly related to structural rigidities connected to technology and/or management issues. Manufacturing firms which improve their efficiency in the use of energy, may further respond to such improvement by increasing their energy use, this is called energy rebound effects. The reason is that energy efficiency improvement lowers the price of energy service and that may result in an increased energy consumption. An intuitive and widely used example of energy rebound effect is that if one upgrades to a more fuel-efficient car, then he/she might drive more kilometers since the price of fuel per kilometer for this person is lower after this upgrade. This does not mean that improved efficiency is harmful. Indeed, higher energy efficiency is welfare enhancing. I measured the size of energy rebound effect for manufacturing firms, and found that the size of this effect is generally substantial. However, rebound effect does not totally offset the energy and emission savings expected from efficiency gains. This result help to set realistic energy and climate targets and to design policy mandates that show an awareness of accounts for behavioral responses to energy efficiency improvements, Golnaz Amjadi continues.
News article from umu.se: A new thesis from the Industrial Doctoral School at Umeå University analyzes the effects of incentives aiming to create a more circular economy.
To create an economic system that is both cost-effective and environmentally sustainable, policy makers need to understand how households, companies, and states respond to incentives. In his thesis, Alejandro Egüez, have examined how different incentives affect three fundamental sectors for a more circular economy: energy efficiency, district heating, and waste management.
Friday November 20, 2020 10.00 am, in Triple Helix in the University Management Building. The defense will be held in English and will be broadcasted via Zoom. Meeting ID: 698 688 8914 Passcode: 403509
Faculty opponent Professor Patrik Söderholm, Luleå Technical University. Main supervisor Runar Brännlund, co-supervisor Thomas Broberg.
With what feels like the everlasting pandemic, the watch list grows thin. Fear not. We bring you throwback films from 2019 when we could actually gather and listen to our young CERE researchers talk about waste, power, nudging and electricity markets. Let yourself be transported to a happier time. More specifically November 2019 when CERE celebrated 10 years. 