Engineering · Energy & Power Engineering
A topic within Energy & Power Engineering, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Engineering.
2 works
Amory B. Lovins & Rocky Mountain Institute
Argues that efficiency and renewables can displace US fossil fuel use by 2050 at lower total cost than business as usual, because the analysis compares whole-system cost rather than pricing energy sources against each other one at a time.
Hannah Choi Granade et al. (McKinsey & Company)
Maps energy efficiency improvements across the whole US economy by engineering cost per unit of energy saved, and argues most of the cheapest efficiency gains go unrealised because of who pays versus who benefits, not a lack of technology.