ACCOUNTING AND END-USE MODELS

Accounting and end-use models were developed in industrialized countries in the early seventies. Since then they have become rather popular and are now widely used all over the world. These models are directly derived from the so-called technico-economic analysis of energy demand. Based on the concepts of applied system analysis, this approach aims at identifying all economic, social, technical and political factors which are related to energy demand and also at understanding how these factors explain changes in energy demand in the medium and long term. Focusing on the long term, this methodology is above all, a prospective approach which enables an analysis of all possible energy demand patterns in the long range instead of trying to predict just one in particular. © 1990.