scholarly journals China’s Energy Consumption Rebound Effect Analysis Based on the Perspective of Technological Progress

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maolin Liao ◽  
Yingjie Wang
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Rebound Effect ◽  
Energy Structure ◽  
Coal Consumption ◽  
Effect Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Structure Adjustment ◽  
Global Concern

Energy issues are the focus of global concern, and estimations of the energy rebound effect are very important for energy policy. Existing research has proved the existence of the energy rebound effect. This paper, based on the estimation of China’s capital stock in 1952, establishes three elements of the neoclassical production function to calculate the contribution rate of technological progress on economic growth. It then calculates China’s energy rebound effect over the past 20 years from the perspective of technological progress. The research results show that though China’s energy intensity has been declining from 1994 to 2017, the energy rebound effect each year is obviously different, with an average level of 54.4%. Technological progress leads to the improvement of energy efficiency, which reduces energy consumption, but the rebound effect makes energy savings less effective than expected. This paper proved the Granger causality between energy structure adjustment and the rebound effect. And the increase of coal consumption will enhance the rebound effect. So, upgrading the structure of energy consumption is considered helpful to reduce the energy rebound effect, which can promote energy conservation and emission reduction.

scholarly journals The Energy Rebound Effect for Construction Industry: Empirical Evidence from the China

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang Du ◽  
Yi Li ◽  
Libiao Bai
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Rebound Effect ◽  
Embodied Energy ◽  
Estimation Model ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Improve Energy Efficiency

As the largest energy consumer and carbon emitter, China has made substantial efforts to improve energy efficiency for decrease energy consumption, while the energy rebound effect determines its effectiveness. The embodied energy consumption of construction projects accounted for nearly one-sixth of the total economy's energy consumption in China. This paper is based on the logical relationship among capital input, technological progress, economic growth, and energy consumption, adapting an alternative estimation model to estimate the energy rebound effect for the construction industry in China for the first time. Empirical results in our paper reveal that the energy rebound effect for the construction industry in China is about 59.5% for the period of 1990–2014. The results indicate that the energy rebound effect does exist in China’s construction industry and it presented a fluctuating declining trend. This implies that half of the energy savings by technological progress is achieved. In addition, China’s government should implement proper energy pricing reforms and energy taxes to promote the sustainable development of China’s construction industry.

scholarly journals Does change of industrial structure affect energy consumption structure: A study based on the perspective of energy grade calculation

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 579-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Hong ◽  
Peng Can ◽  
Yang Xiaona ◽  
Li Ruixue
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Calculation Method ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Energy Structure ◽  
Consumption Structure ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Impact

In this article, the grades of different kinds of energy sources are distinguished. Thus, we put forward an equivalent electric calculation method, which is compliant with the calculation of various energy resources that have different grades. Based on this aspect, we empirically analyzed the influence of industrial structure changing on energy consumption structure by analyzing panel data in 30 provinces of China from 2003 to 2013. Results showed that the calculated results of equivalent electric calculation method were more accurate because it considered the difference in grades between various energy sources. Industrial structure changing had a significant impact on energy consumption structure. The upgrading and rationalization of the industrial structure had a significant promotion on energy structure cleaning. In addition, technological progress was conducive to the clean development of energy structure, the decrease in energy price boosted energy structure cleaning, and the impact of economic level on energy consumption structure was not significant.

Analysis of Hunan Province Industry’s Carbon Emission Based on the Energy Consumption Structure

2014 ◽  
Vol 641-642 ◽  
pp. 1078-1081
Author(s):  
Lin Wu ◽  
Han Li
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Hunan Province ◽  
Carbon Intensity ◽  
Energy Structure ◽  
Coal Consumption ◽  
Consumption Structure ◽  
Industrial Energy ◽  
Industrial Energy Consumption

Energy consumption carbon emission factor method was used to analyze the carbon emission evolution of industrial energy consumption in Hunan Province with collected data on industrial energy consumption in 2000-2012. Results had shown that Hunan province industry’s carbon emission keep increasing in 2000-2012. There is a highly correlation between the total coal consumption and carbon emission of industrial energy carbon emission. Industrial energy consumption structure plays a decisive role in carbon emission. Industrial economic growth at the expense of high energy consumption in 2000-2005 has changed. Industrial carbon intensity has a fluctuated downward trend from 2005 to 2012. From the perspective of carbon emission per industrial output and industrial energy consumption structure, there is a large potential for carbon emission control in Hunan industrial energy consumption. Therefore, the main way to control carbon emission of industrial energy consumption in Hunan Province is to optimize the energy structure, reasonable adjustment of industry structure, improve energy technical level, proper control the growth of energy consumption.

Shanghai's CO2 Emissions and Policy Implication for Low Carbon Construction

2013 ◽  
Vol 869-870 ◽  
pp. 893-897
Author(s):  
Lin Hui Zeng ◽  
Guang Ming Li ◽  
Ju Wen Huang ◽  
Hao Chen Zhu ◽  
Jing Cheng Xu
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Energy Structure ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Carbon Mitigation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Energy Efficiency Improvement ◽  
Structure Adjustment ◽  
Industrial Structure Adjustment ◽  
The City

Cities are the main contributors of anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions. Comprehensive countermeasures are needed in cities to mitigate GHGs emissions. The aim of this paper is to study the results that Shanghai achieved in carbon mitigation by comprehensive green measures. It demonstrated that Shanghai has made significant progress in carbon emission reduction through technological innovation, industrial structure adjustment, and energy efficiency improvement in recent years. The results showed that Shanghais energy related CO2 intensity reduced to 1.14 t/104 yuan in 2010, owing to adjustments in energy structure and industry structure. It also showed that Shanghai had made abundant reduction in carbon emissions in the past few years. 9.2 million tons of CO2 reductions were obtained in industry, transportation, and building in the city level. Among them, reductions in industrial sector and transportation were the major contributors. Further efforts should be taken to realize a low carbon future.

An Empirical Research on the Relationship between Environmental Quality and Energy Consumption in China

2014 ◽  
Vol 1073-1076 ◽  
pp. 2562-2566
Author(s):  
Yu Zhen Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Energy Structure ◽  
Coal Consumption ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
Stationary Test ◽  
Countermeasures And Suggestions ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between environmental quality and energy consumption has become more and more important. This paper firstly develops the index for China’s comprehensive environmental quality evaluation, and employs spss17.0 to conduct factorial analysis and comprehensive analysis on the condition of China’s comprehensive environmental quality between 1995 and 2012. By using Eviews6.0 to build a regression model for China’s environmental quality and energy consumption and exercising stationary test and Granger causality test, this paper also affirms the co-integration relationship between environmental quality and energy consumption in China. Among all energy sources, coal consumption has the closest relationship with environmental quality, and oil and natural gas consumptions are in the 2nd and 3rd place. In the last part, this paper proposes countermeasures and suggestions like optimizing industrial structure, adjusting energy structure and improving technologies in energy utilization.

scholarly journals How Did the Changes in Industrial and Energy Structure Influence Energy Consumption in Shandong, China?

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Sheng-Wen Tseng ◽  
◽  
Yen-Yu Chen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Conservation ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Energy Structure ◽  
Coal Consumption ◽  
Continuous Increase ◽  
Density Reduction ◽  
New Energy ◽  
Regional Product

The Gross Regional Product (GRP) of Shandong ranks third in China, but its energy and coal consumption rank first. However, in the past studies, no effort was made to analyze the influence of Shandong energy conservation and emission reduction policies on energy consumption changes. To make up for this gap, the revised divisia index and the energy consumption structure methods were used in this study to analyze the driving force of changes in energy consumption in Shandong from 2005 to 2016. The results of this research show that: Firstly, the control of energy-intensive industries and strong energy conservation policies had become the main driving forces for energy density reduction. Secondly, the energy structure optimization policies only increased the proportion of hydro, nuclear and new energy production to replace a proportion of oil, but could not effectively reduce the consumption and proportion of coal. The continuous increase in coal consumption offset the energy conservation effect by key industries during the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period. It is clear that a reduction in the amount of coal used and an increase in the proportion of hydro, nuclear and new energy (especially in the industrial sector) is at the core of the energy problems in Shandong. Policy recommendations are proposed that are based on the findings of this study.

Study on the Models of Relationship between the Rebound Effect and Energy Efficiency

2013 ◽  
Vol 325-326 ◽  
pp. 1450-1453
Author(s):  
Ping Ping Liu
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Rebound Effect ◽  
Improve Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Product ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Reduction Of Energy Consumption ◽  
Direct Rebound Effect

t is generally recognized that technological progress will help individual energy product or service to improve energy efficiency. And to the whole of energy economic efficiency, the role of technological progress may not always promote the reduction of energy consumption. As rebound effect exists, it may further increase the demand for energy. With the continuous advancement of technology, increasing energy efficiency and rapid growth in energy consumption in our country, the need to further enhance the in-depth study on relationship between the rebound effect and energy efficiency. Currently, study abroad is more abundant in this area and our countrys study has lagged behind in this area. Therefore, the thesis, on the basis of international research, mainly from three aspects which are relationship between direct rebound effect and energy efficiency, indirect rebound effect and energy efficiency, the economy-wide rebound effect and energy efficiency, studies on the models of relationship between the rebound effect and energy efficiency in China. Through what we have mentioned above, we expect to offer useful references.

scholarly journals Income, Coal Consumption, And The Environmental Kuznets Curve In Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nhan Dang Tran ◽  
Naresh Chandra Sahu
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Environmental Kuznets Curve ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Energy Structure ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Coal Consumption ◽  
Renewable Energy Consumption ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
The One

Abstract While coal leads energy structure in a rapid growth economy like Vietnam, there exist efforts to increase the use of renewable energy and at the same time to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This paper aims to investigate whether there is an inverted U environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) relation between income and coal consumption from 1984 to 2019 using the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) framework. We find that the income elasticities of coal consumption are larger than unity and increase monotonically with income. It thus reveals that the income-coal consumption relationship resembles an upward-sloping curve instead of an inverted U-shaped curve. We also find that coal consumption reduces with the one percent increase in the share of renewable energy consumption by less than it increases with the one percent decrease in the share of renewable energy consumption. Despite this, it indicates that the substitution of renewable energy for coal seems more substantial with policy improvements. Moreover, we find that the quantity of coal consumed grows with positive oil price shocks. It suggests that rising oil prices play an undesirable role in reducing coal consumption and associated emissions. Finally, the study provides policy implications for interventions to achieve committed emission targets.

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