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Monday, June 29, 2009
Are Developing Economies Getting Serious About Energy Efficiency?
By Spencer Swartz
A few developments Monday suggest some of the world’s most inefficient energy users are starting to tighten up how they use their energy resources, with important implications for keeping a brake on crude prices down the road.
The International Energy Agency said non-OECD oil demand – which includes China, the world’s second biggest consumer after the U.S. - is expected to be about 1 million barrels a day lower by 2013 compared with its previous projection due to rising efficiency efforts such as improved vehicle gas-mileage standards.
China, India and other emerging markets have accounted for most of the increase in world oil consumption this decade.
The Chinese government then seemed to only confirm the IEA’s point about non-OECD efficiency efforts by announcing consumer gasoline and diesel price increases in its quest to nudge people to cut wasteful consumption. The price increases are the latest the Chinese government has implemented over the past year.
Then, in a similar vein, the International Renewable Energy Agency said the United Arab Emirates – one of the world’s biggest oil producers - will be the headquarters for the intergovernmental group. The UAE can now get moving on pushing IRENA’s remit of advocating renewable energy use in industrialized and developing nations. IRENA was established in January.
The Middle East and the UAE, in particular, are the world’s most inefficient energy users in terms of per capita oil usage. The U.S. remains the biggest petroleum consumer but is among the most efficient users on a per capita basis, according to the IEA. (Big Oil has already gotten pretty serious about its own energy efficiency.)
What all this points to is that emerging markets are waking up to the fact that using energy more wisely puts money in consumer wallets, can help smooth out trade deficits and is better for the planet in terms of reducing carbon emissions.
Of course, improved efficiency sometimes just leads to greater consumption — an idea known as Jevons Paradox – which won’t help the situation at all.
With crude futures prices back on the rise Monday – up $2 at almost $72 a barrel in New York – consumers have plenty of incentive to get more out of their petrol, a point highlighted in the IEA’s report Monday.
In its medium term 2008-14 report on oil industry trends, the IEA revised down its world oil demand forecast for 2013 by a hefty 3.35 million barrels a day, or 3.7%, from its previous estimate in December. Most of that revision came from the U.S. and other industrialized nations where market-based energy pricing has encouraged wide-spread conservation.
A few developments Monday suggest some of the world’s most inefficient energy users are starting to tighten up how they use their energy resources, with important implications for keeping a brake on crude prices down the road.
The International Energy Agency said non-OECD oil demand – which includes China, the world’s second biggest consumer after the U.S. - is expected to be about 1 million barrels a day lower by 2013 compared with its previous projection due to rising efficiency efforts such as improved vehicle gas-mileage standards.
China, India and other emerging markets have accounted for most of the increase in world oil consumption this decade.
The Chinese government then seemed to only confirm the IEA’s point about non-OECD efficiency efforts by announcing consumer gasoline and diesel price increases in its quest to nudge people to cut wasteful consumption. The price increases are the latest the Chinese government has implemented over the past year.
Then, in a similar vein, the International Renewable Energy Agency said the United Arab Emirates – one of the world’s biggest oil producers - will be the headquarters for the intergovernmental group. The UAE can now get moving on pushing IRENA’s remit of advocating renewable energy use in industrialized and developing nations. IRENA was established in January.
The Middle East and the UAE, in particular, are the world’s most inefficient energy users in terms of per capita oil usage. The U.S. remains the biggest petroleum consumer but is among the most efficient users on a per capita basis, according to the IEA. (Big Oil has already gotten pretty serious about its own energy efficiency.)
What all this points to is that emerging markets are waking up to the fact that using energy more wisely puts money in consumer wallets, can help smooth out trade deficits and is better for the planet in terms of reducing carbon emissions.
Of course, improved efficiency sometimes just leads to greater consumption — an idea known as Jevons Paradox – which won’t help the situation at all.
With crude futures prices back on the rise Monday – up $2 at almost $72 a barrel in New York – consumers have plenty of incentive to get more out of their petrol, a point highlighted in the IEA’s report Monday.
In its medium term 2008-14 report on oil industry trends, the IEA revised down its world oil demand forecast for 2013 by a hefty 3.35 million barrels a day, or 3.7%, from its previous estimate in December. Most of that revision came from the U.S. and other industrialized nations where market-based energy pricing has encouraged wide-spread conservation.
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