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8: Conclusions and Recommendations
8: Conclusions and Recommendations
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energy system and the major actors within it that, we believe, have been given insufficient consideration in energy policy analyses. We believe that fuller consideration of those characteristics will lead to broader and more enlightened policy debates and more effective energy policy.
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In an uncertain environment, conflicting interests and changing political positions generate a and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted. Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution.
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The behavior of individuals and organizations is influenced by example, especially the example of their peers and and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted. Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution.
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A central objective of any government effort regarding energy information must be to design policy and programs to allow skeptics to resolve their doubts. It is therefore important to make information for energy consumers available from personal observation, informal social networks, and other highly trusted sources.
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. Rather than developing detailed plans, therefore, it often makes and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted.
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We propose that government may need to assure the public that and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted. Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution.
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. Hence, a more vigorous effort for residential energy efficiency, rather than an and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted.
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More experience making local energy management work is needed before major responsibility for energy adaptability can be delegated to local institutions. To increase the adaptability of the national energy system by emphasizing local control requires the development of new relationships between the federal and local levels.
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We have refrained from being more specific more often because while we have confidence in the principles outlined here, we do not yet know what will and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted. Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution.
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If the program looks promising, it can then -- or simultaneously -- be tested in other small field trials on different populations, to see if the program works equally well under diverse conditions. With the knowledge gained from these trials, decisions can be made about how or whether to proceed to more extensive trials or to actual policy implementation.
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Statistical techniques often allow more to be learned from several small trials than from a single, larger trial. and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted.
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It also suggests different and often new roles for local institutions and for the scientific community. The federal government has had several roles in energy policy: it has been a source of money, it has conducted technological research, it has attempted direct control of activities through regulation, it has collected and distributed information, and, more recently, it has backed away from many of these activities.
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Such policy issues seem almost ubiquitous in the 1980s, but the relation of the general concepts discussed here to nonenergy issues is the subject for other investigations. RECOMMENDATIONS Our analysis of some major issues in energy policy has produced some new ways of thinking about the problems that have broad policy implications.
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4. Energy information and building retrofit programs, such as the Residential Conservation Service, should continue to stress consumer protectionfeatures.
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Federal or private agencies should develop simple, understandable indicesof energy efficiency, comparable to miles-per-gallon, for appliances, furnaces, and building shells. Because of the history of increasing energyinvisibility (see Chapter 3)
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Labeling, rating, and certification programs should be supported toensure that indices of energy efficiency come into common use. and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted.
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Success stories from the leading organizations in a field should be especially convincing. and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted.
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Such organizations, once they establish their credibility by and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted. Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution.
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By means of such mechanisms as exercises and emergency planningefforts, the federal government should use its energy and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted. Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution.
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The federal government, private foundations, or other interested parties should sponsor research to evaluate the success or failure of existing local energy activities. Such research is necessary to judge the potential of localenergy activities to make the national energy system more flexible and resilient and to address the problems caused for energy policy by the diversity of local conditions, the widespread mistrust of energy information and institutions, and the expressed need of people for increased control over their destinies.
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These mechanisms are needed to facilitate the spread of mechanisms include holding conferences, making research expertise travel and communication among local energy officials, among
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