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Energy Policy Simulator - United States
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Allow energy efficiency improvements to cause labor productivity improvements #75

Open jrissman opened 4 years ago

jrissman commented 4 years ago

There has been some literature linking energy efficiency measures to non-energy cost savings, particularly improvements in labor productivity. Skip Laitner suggested this 2003 paper on which he was a co-author: Productivity benefits of industrial energy efficiency measures. Consider whether to cause policy-driven EE improvements to in turn cause labor productivity improvements.

(Note that the EPS already models the change in equipment capital cost caused by energy efficiency.)

Suggested by Skip Laitner on 7/14/2020