Energy Efficiency: assessment of main indicators thanks to benchmarking.

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Supervisors

Agrell, Per Joakim

Faculty

Louvain School of Management

Degree label

Master [120] en Ingénieur de gestion

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to propose a new vision of energy efficiency thanks to a comparison of a set of current indicators and a new model developed thanks to benchmarking implemented in the R program. This analysis is done thanks to a sample of 17 countries chosen for their relevance and their interest to energy policy development. The paper starts with a global vision of the situation of energy efficiency and the actual and potential development in this area. The current indicators choose in the different databases are presented and developed thanks to tables and graphs. These current indicators are compared together to try to find relation between them but it appears that it’s complicate to have an indicator more pertinent than the others. The pertinence appears when they are observed as a whole. On this observation, a new model is created that will taken into account a more consequent number of factors. In this case the number will be four. The development of this new model is done for two different situations, in the two situations, the inputs are the total primary supply and the CO2 emissions but in the first case the outputs are economical oriented with the value added of services and industry. In the second case, these outputs are more individual oriented thanks to the average of living area and the number of passenger transported per km thanks to a vehicle. The development of these situations and the comparison of this model with the current energy efficiency indicators show that there are really two countries that are above the others in terms of energy efficiency, Sweden and Denmark and it seems to not linked to the policy making about this subject.