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  "id": "RS20981",
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      "id": 100799,
      "date": "2001-07-30",
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      "title": "Energy Efficiency and the Rebound Effect: Does Increasing Efficiency Decrease Demand?",
      "summary": "Intuitively it seems obvious to most observers that increasing energy efficiency will ultimately\nreduce\ndemand for an energy resource such as electricity. Paradoxically, economic theory suggests that this\ndecrease in demand and subsequent decrease in cost of using the resource could cause a rebound in\ndemand. A commonly cited example is an increase in the efficiency of home air conditioning which\nmay reduce the resident's monetary incentive to conserve. The resident may opt to change the\nthermostat setting to keep the amount he pays constant, but living at a more comfortable temperature. \nWhen actually measured this \"Rebound Effect\" is generally acknowledged to lower predicted\nreductions in electricity demand by 10%-40% depending on the device that is made more efficient. \nThis report will be updated as events warrant.",
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  "topics": [
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