Manufacturing energy use in eight OECD countries : trends through 1988.. LBL.

Laurence Berkeley Laboratory. Energy and Environment Division.
Howarth, Richard B. Schipper, Lee.

1991

CIENA
2146

This paper reviews the evolution of manufacturing energy use in eight industrialized nations: West Germany, Denmark, France, Japan, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Manufacturing energy use fell in these nations by 16 percent between 1973 and 1988 while manufacturing value added increased by 41 percent. Reduced energy intensities in six industry groups- paper pulp; chemicals; stone, clay glass; iron steel; nonferrous metals; and other manufacturing--were the primary source of this apparent decoupling of energy use and output. Between 1973 and 1988, intensity reductions would have driven down sectoral energy use by 32 percent if the level and composition of output had remained constant. Structural change, or shifts in the product mis, would have reduced energy use by 11 percent if the total level of output and the energy intensities of each industry group had remained constant..

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PAISES DESARROLLADOS; INDUSTRIA MANUFACTURERA; USO DE LA ENERGIA; CONSUMO DE ENERGIA; SECTOR INDUSTRIAL; DATOS ESTADISTICOS; PRECIOS DE LA ENERGIA; SECTOR ENERGIA;