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The Light and the Heat: Productivity Co-benefits of Energy-saving Technology / Achyuta Adhvaryu, Namrata Kala, Anant Nyshadham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adhvaryu, Achyuta.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w24314.
- NBER working paper series no. w24314
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Light and the Heat
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2018.
- Summary:
- Measurement of the full costs and benefits of energy-saving technologies is often difficult, confounding adoption decisions. We study consequences of the adoption of energy-efficient LED lighting in garment factories around Bangalore, India. We combine daily production line-level data with weather data and estimate a negative, nonlinear productivity-temperature gradient. We find that LED lighting, which emits less heat than conventional bulbs, decreases the temperature on factory floors, and thus raises productivity, particularly on hot days. Using the firm's costing data, we estimate the pay-back period for LED adoption is nearly one-sixth the length after accounting for productivity co-benefits.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- February 2018.
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