Is residential energy consumption a key driver of final energy consumption changes in Andalucia?

Abstract

The economic expansion period during 2000-2008 was accompanied by an important increase of energy consumption in Andalusia. The desire of decoupling between both of them, has led us to carry out a structural decomposition analysis (SDA) based on the Andalusia input-output tables. Additionally, this decomposition has been supplemented by a Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) analysis of the energy consumption changes during a longer period 2000-2013. Therefore, the novelty of this paper is found in the following aspects: i) the structural decomposition of the final energy consumption changes is applied on the largest disaggregation of sectors made until now for the Andalusian economy (73 productive sectors) during the period 2000-2008; ii) the LMDI analysis provide results for a longer period (2000-2013) and allows us to compare the two decomposition approaches; iii) both decompositions analyse the residential and productive energy consumption changes, iv) the analysis provides a better understanding of the energy sources that are behind the driving forces; and v) based on the above results, some energy policy recommendations are provided.