Policymakers have warned that energy efficiency has dropped compared with last year as plummeting global oil prices, which led to lower energy prices in general, have discouraged consumers from saving energy.
The Energy Policy and Planning Office (Eppo) reported yesterday that the energy intensity (EI) ratio stood at 8.38 kilotonnes of oil equivalent per 1 billion baht of GDP in the first half of this year, slightly higher than the average of 8.21 ktoe reported for the whole of 2014.