Who is the Audience for Economy-Wide Energy-Efficiency Indicators?
Workshop participants suggested quite an array of users for the efficiency indicators including: • Policy Makers. Obvious uses for such indicators are policy formulation, assessment, and justification. Therefore, Congress and the State houses are the most important users of the indicators. • Academic Community. Potential users are more widespread than just policy makers. It is true that most users of such indicators are policy makers and their staff, but a huge academic community would also be interested in using the indicators. • Research Organizations. At the Center for Global Change, such data are used for analysis of energy tax proposals, for example. • Modelers. Energy-efficiency analysis and indicators could be used by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) internally to model and forecast energy usage. • Program Offices. The indicators could be used by program offices where programs are designed, evaluated, and defended.
