Subsidies may have reversed a trend of falling energy use among households three years ago, according to a study, whose experts also warned of increasing use in the commercial sector.
Energy intensity, or consumption per household, of residential users was 4 per cent higher in 2014 than in 2000, adjusted for an increase in the population, weather and economic growth.
Consumption per floor area by commercial users was 17 per cent higher.
The “energy efficiency index”...
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