The Primary Energy Use and Emissions of Housing Sector: The Changing Path of Taiwan

Abstract

This paper analyses the changing path of primary energy use and emissions in Taiwan housing sector during 1982-2009. A key finding of the paper is that electricity was the major source of changing both in primary energy use and emission of the housing sector. During the study period, the annual logarithmic growth rate of the primary energy induced by electricity use in Taiwan housing sector was 6.45%. While the annual logarithmic growth rate of emissions from electricity used in housing sector was 7.82%. In which, about four-fifths of the growth rate came from electricity use, one-fifth came from emissions factor of electricity. Keywords-primary energy use, greenhouse gases emissions, global warming potential, housing sector