Rethinking the energy-efficiency gap: Producers, intermediaries, and innovation

Rethinking the energy-efficiency gap: Producers, intermediaries, and innovation / Carl Blumstein and Margaret Taylor. Berkeley : Energy Institute at Haas, May 2013, 12 p. (EI @ Haas WP-243) http://ei.haas.berkeley.edu/pdf/working_papers/WP243.pdf The economic justification for energy efficiency policy primarily focuses on market failures and barriers that prevent energy consumers from undertaking privately profitable investments in efficiency. These consumer-oriented market imperfections are..