【基調講演】Session 6 家庭用エネルギー消費と省エネルギー

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Final energy consumption for residential sector in Japan had increased until around the year 2000. Household energy consumption has been decreasing at an accelerated rate for recent 15 years. This is likely due to not only reduction of household size, but energy efficiency improvement of housing and appliance ande behavior change of residents. According to recent published government statistics, CO₂ emissions of households whose houses were built in and after 2011 were 15% less than the average. The statistics also show energy efficient behavior reduced CO₂ emission. Behavioral aspects of energy coemission will be relatively important in the future.