Full Title: California Energy Efficiency: Lessons for the Rest of the World, or Not?
Author(s): Arik Levinson
Publisher(s): Georgetown Economics Department and NBER
Publication Date: July 1, 2013
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Description (excerpt):
Since the 1970s California’s residential electricity consumption per capita has stopped increasing, while other states’ electricity use continued to grow steadily. Similar patterns can be seen in non-electric energy, industry, and transportation. What accounts for California’s apparent energy savings? Some credit the strict energy efficiency standards for buildings and appliances enacted by California in the mid-1970s.