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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111303
	Embracing uncertainty in building energy efficiency policy: A case study of a building energy standard
	Goulden S.; Erell E.; Pearlmutter D.; Garb Y.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0301-4215
卷号	139
英文摘要	Quantified goals for reducing energy consumption in buildings play a significant role in national and international energy policy. Calculations of potential energy savings from different interventions may be unreliable due to various types of uncertainty, resulting in a performance gap between predictions and actual energy consumption. Yet building energy policy continues to rely heavily on apparently robust calculations of energy savings, raising the question of why and how the policy process tolerates uncertainty and inaccuracy when quantification is its central logic. We describe a case study of the development of a new mandatory building energy standard, in which there is a lack of consensus on the energy it would save. We found that when this uncertainty was brought to light, the policy process raised other, unquantified logics in favour of energy efficiency measures. Using literature on calculation and expertise, we discuss how quantification is used in policy-making and how uncertainties are repressed, enabling the energy performance gap to persist. We conclude that broader awareness of the modes in which quantitative and other logics are used in energy policy, and a reframing of the types of energy savings to be made, may serve policy-making better than an illusion of calculative certainty. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Energy efficiency; Energy standards; Quantification; Sustainable construction; Uncertainty
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Buildings; Decision making; Energy policy; Energy utilization; Potential energy; Building energy policies; Building energy standards; Efficiency measure; Energy standards; Quantification; Reducing energy consumption; Sustainable construction; Uncertainty; Energy efficiency; energy efficiency; energy policy; energy use; policy making; sustainability; uncertainty analysis
来源期刊	Energy policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/124800
作者单位	Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben Gurion, Israel; Department of Environmental Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel; Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel; Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Goulden S.,Erell E.,Pearlmutter D.,et al. Embracing uncertainty in building energy efficiency policy: A case study of a building energy standard[J],2020,139.
APA	Goulden S.,Erell E.,Pearlmutter D.,&Garb Y..(2020).Embracing uncertainty in building energy efficiency policy: A case study of a building energy standard.Energy policy,139.
MLA	Goulden S.,et al."Embracing uncertainty in building energy efficiency policy: A case study of a building energy standard".Energy policy 139(2020).