ABSTRACT
The aim of this paper is to comment on general themes which run through a number of the papers in this report. Many of the concepts used in this area of study are still developing and the application of conventions is often not as self-consistent as it should be. The general position is that energy analysis is a macro-activity which underpins existing and proposed practices of energy accounting at the micro-level: the firm. Papers in Part II deal with particular applications of energy analysis and necessarily have to assume that the conventions used in these applications of energy analysis are generally accepted and self-consistent. Other papers deal with energy accounting in relation to the activities of individual firms and seek to establish conventions. This paper attempts to raise questions on both these areas and make recommendations for exploring these questions further.
