Estimating the efficiency in overall energy consumption : evidence from Slovenian household-level data

Dolšak, Janez (author), Hrovatin, Nevenka (author), Zorić, Jelena (author)

This study measures the efficiency of energy consumption in the residential sector in Slovenia. It extends the existing research on the estimation of electricity consumption efficiency by considering the consumption efficiency of multiple energy sources used in households. The detailed disaggregated data from two cross-sectional surveys conducted in the years 2010 and 2014, resulting in a sample of 6,882 Slovenian households, is used in the estimation. The study includes energy services in a stochastic frontier framework through a sub-vector Shephard energy input distance function. Several household characteristics are considered in the estimation of energy consumption to control for household heterogeneity. The results reveal that Slovenian households have substantial potential for energy savings, which can be achieved through the replacement of inefficient energy-using capital stock and changed behavioural patterns. Specifically, we found the average inefficiency of energy consumption in Slovenian households to be 25.1% in 2010 and 23.3% in 2014, indicating a slight improvement in residential energy efficiency in the observed period, which is also in line with the EU energy-efficiency targets.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Slovenia, energetics, households, residential sector, energy efficiency, stochastic frontier analysis, energy use, subvector Shephard input distance function
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 15.08.2022
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: 13 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 114, art. 106241
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-139602
• UDC: 620.9
• ISSN on article: 0140-9883
• DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106241
• COBISS.SI-ID: 118963715
• Publication date in RUL: 05.09.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Energy economics
• Shortened title: Energy econ.
• Publisher: Elsevier
• ISSN: 0140-9883
• COBISS.SI-ID: 10397703

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: Slovenija, energetika, gospodinjstva

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Funding programme: Raziskovalni program
• Project number: P5-0117
• Name: Trajnostna konkurenčnost slovenskega gospodarstva v evropskem in globalnem okviru