Mapping the Necessary Policy Instruments to Unlock the Potentials of Private Sector Investments in Energy Efficiency for Transportation

Nowadays in the process of formulating and implementing laws or regulations in our country, the existing problem is a lack of an effective mechanism. From incentive policies for building energy efficiency, we can choose economic levers and policy instruments, such as price, tax, financial subsidy, interest rate and so on. The article puts forward suggestion in principle and ensures the development road is applicable to ordinary people, suitable for the sustainable utilization of energy and the harmonious development of society.

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Belt and Suspenders and More: The Incremental Impact of Energy Efficiency Subsidies in the Presence of Existing Policy Instruments

10.3386/w20541 ◽

2014 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Sébastien Houde ◽

Joseph Aldy

Keyword(s):

Energy Efficiency ◽

Policy Instruments

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What Affects the Progress and Transformation of New Residential Building Energy Efficiency Promotion in China: Stakeholders’ Perceptions

Energies ◽

10.3390/en12061027 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (6) ◽

pp. 1027 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Yinan Li ◽

Neng Zhu ◽

Beibei Qin

Keyword(s):

Energy Efficiency ◽

Policy Design ◽

Residential Buildings ◽

Policy Instruments ◽

Residential Building ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Building Energy Efficiency ◽

Governance Arrangement ◽

Market Needs ◽

Research Assumptions

Nationwide energy efficiency (EE) promotion of new residential buildings is affected by multiple factors regarding policies, markets, technologies, capacities, and economics. The perceived influences of these factors by stakeholders are crucial to the effectiveness evaluation of current policies and the selection of policy instruments. However, they are normally assumed or taken for granted. The knowledge gap between stakeholders’ perceptions and research assumptions may lead to researchers’ recognition bias. Correspondingly, this paper aims to identify the significant factors, perceived by frontline stakeholders, influencing nationwide EE promotion of new residential buildings before 2020 and 2030. Factors were collected through literature review and their influence were evaluated via Analytical Hierarchy Process based on the data collected in the questionnaires distributed to 32 institutes. The theory of Nested Policy Design Framework and Policy Environment was used to structure the hierarchy and generate policy implications. Results indicate that (1) policy factors are of the greatest influence before 2020 and market perfection factors will have great influences from 2020 to 2030, indicating the transformation of governance arrangement to “market-based” and “network-based” from the current legal-based system; and (2) factors regarding market needs are of significant influence in both terms, revealing the way the transformation should be accomplished.

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Development of Production and Investment Measures for Energy Saving and Energy Efficiency in Rural Areas

Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism ◽

10.14505//jemt.11.5(45).22 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (5) ◽

pp. 1251

Author(s):

Kaparov Nurtaza MARATOVICH ◽

Zhibek OMARKHANOVA ◽

Rakhisheva Aida BEKARYSOVNA ◽

Saulebaevna Saule SAPARBAYEVA ◽

Zakirova Dilnara IKRAMKHANOVNA ◽

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Keyword(s):

Energy Efficiency ◽

Private Sector ◽

Energy Conservation ◽

Energy Saving ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Energy Intensity ◽

Electric Power Industry ◽

Environmental Crisis ◽

Energy Audit ◽

Additional Energy

The relevance of the research topic is that energy-saving is the key element of modern energy development in the country. In Kazakhstan, energy-saving, and improving the energy efficiency of agriculture is currently a priority task that will solve energy, environmental and economic problems. Without a solution to these problems, the country's development will inevitably hold back. The head of state in the field of energy conservation has set a goal to reduce the energy intensity of the gross domestic product by at least 25% by 2020, and annual energy-savings of 3.5% after 2020. Industry in rural areas consumes more than 70 % of all electricity. As part of the comprehensive plan, their energy audit was conducted 50/50 (50 % of the financing is the enterprises' funds, the remaining 50 % is the state budget). As a result of the energy audit, systematic measures were developed to reduce the energy intensity of the industry, including the electric power industry. Large unproductive losses of energy resources are in the private sector, in this connection, since 2019, the energy audit of JSC "Kazakhstan center for modernization and development of housing and communal services (housing and communal services)" is conducted on budget funds in the private sector. Energy conservation is one of the most important and strategic tasks of the country. Rapidly developing production requires additional energy costs. This is confirmed by the annual increase in energy tariffs. In turn, resources are not unlimited, and their irrational consumption will inevitably lead to not only economic but also to an environmental crisis.

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