Should Focus on Strict Energy Consumption and not Energy Intensity or Efficiency. Alternatively, some people believe that differentiating between intensity and efficiency is senseless. Now, recreation may be playing Nintendo instead. Obvious uses for such indicators are policy formulation, assessment, and justification. Therefore, Congress and the State houses are the most important users of the indicators.
Potential users are more widespread than just policy makers.
It is true that most users of such indicators are policy makers and their staff, but a huge academic community would also be interested in using the indicators. At the Center for Global Change, such data are used for analysis of energy tax proposals, for example. The indicators could be used by program offices where programs are designed, evaluated, and defended. Most workshop participants seemed to agree that EIA should not only consider the development of aggregated energy-efficiency indicators but disaggregated ones as well. It was noted by one participant that aggregate indicators of intensity are useful, but the underlying components are critical to interpretation.