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Energy Efficiency

The fourth energy transition sub-pillar, energy efficiency, reduces total energy demand through smarter behaviors and advanced technologies without lowering living standards. It optimizes energy use in residential, commercial, and industrial sectors to cut waste, improve performance, and lower emissions. Key actions include efficient appliances, better insulation, optimized industrial processes, and energy-saving habits, which reduce fossil fuel reliance and complement renewables by lowering overall demand. Policies should promote technologies like LED lighting, efficient HVAC, and smart energy systems, while updated building codes ensure efficient design. Incentives such as rebates, tax credits, and public education further encourage widespread adoption.

Solutions Pathways for Energy Efficiency

Built Environment
Transportation Efficiency
Transmission & Storage
Industries & Services
Built Environment

Built Environment

Built environment encompasses any constructed structure or system, including whole cities, residential homes, commercial buildings, government facilities, roads, bridges, and factories, designed with a focus on minimizing energy needs, material usage, and associated emissions.

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Transportation Efficiency

Transportation Efficiency

Transportation efficiency involves strategies designed to reduce dependence on energy-inefficient modes of travel, such as automobiles and airplanes. These strategies include investments in public rail systems, buses, bicycles, and personal electric vehicles (PEVs), as well as policies that promote remote work, lightweight vehicle manufacturing, and other energy-saving measures that support sustainable transportation practices.

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Transmission & Storage

Transmission & Storage

Transmission and storage measures refer to techniques that minimize energy loss during power transmission from production to consumption points, encompassing the deployment of smart grids, smart meters, demand response systems, integrated grid storage solutions, utility-scale batteries, and load-shedding techniques.

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Industries & Services

Industries & Services

Industries and services encompass technological innovations, new systems, and upgrades that reduce the energy intensity and direct emissions from manufacturing chemicals, metals, electrical goods, textiles, materials, and cement.

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