Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name:  Richard B. Howarth 
Author-Name:  Lee Schipper
Title:  Manufacturing Energy Use in Eight OECD Countries: Trends through 1988
Classification-JEL: F0
Pages:  15-40
Volume:  Volume 12
Issue:  Number 4
Year:  1991
Abstract:  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% between 1973 and 1988 while manufacturing valueadded increased by 41%. Reduced energy intensities in six industry groups --paper and pulp; chemicals; stone, clay and glass; iron and 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% if the level and composition of output had remained constant. Structural change, or shifts in the product mi, would have reduced energy use by 11% if the total level of output and the energy intensities of each industry group had remained constant.
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