Usually means: Increased consumption offsets efficiency gains.
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  2. rebound effect: Wiktionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rebound effect)

noun:  (medicine) The emergence or reemergence of symptoms, often with greater severity, when a medicine prescribed to suppress the original symptoms is reduced or discontinued.
noun:  (conservation) Synonym of takeback (“reduction in energy savings from new technologies due to increased levels of demand”)

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