but it is also important to consider what other benefits may have resulted from the measure it may be that additional energy consumption can be explained as a consequence of achieving those other benefits while some multiple benefits can be seen as a result of energy savings and should be counted in addition to energy savings achieved others can occur independently of energy savings and could provide a different measure of success of energy efficiency programmes to be considered where energy savings are low policymakers should consider any such tradeoff between reduced energy savings and socioeconomic welfare gains arising from particular energy efficiency measure and how the balance should be struck between energy savings and other benefits in designing energy efficiency policy