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Energy use in households, including private transport, accounts for about 30% of primary energy use in industrialised countries.
They would essentially turn papermaking into a biochemical business, cutting primary energy use by 40%.
As IEA's Energy Technology Perspectives 2016 highlighted, the world's urban areas accounted for about 64% of global primary energy use and produced 70% of the planet's CO2 emissions in 2013.
If Russia improved its energy efficiency to the levels of comparable OECD countries, it could reduce its primary energy use by almost one-third, an amount similar to the consumption of the United Kingdom.
They should develop an energy alliance with Algeria, talk more to the OPEC oil cartel and start talks with Central Asian producers, says the commission.Furthermore, given the dangers of global warming, the commission says the EU should aim to reduce primary energy use by 2020 to 30% below 1990 levels.
That might partly explain why the passive-building standard is only now getting off the ground in the United States — despite years of data suggesting that America's drafty building methods account for as much as 40 percent of its primary energy use, 70 percent of its electricity consumption and nearly 40 percent of its carbon-dioxide emissions.
Indoor environmental control has resulted in high primary energy use.
This includes the evaluation of the building fabric quality, the total primary energy use, the non-renewable primary energy use and the percentage of renewable primary energy contribution.
Primary energy use per capita is unchanged in the U.S. from 1973.
Thus, both primary energy use and carbon footprint are tightly linked to climate change.
