Assessing drivers of energy consumption and progress toward energy targets in Italy

Trotta, Gianluca

doi:10.1080/15567249.2020.1778817

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“…Furthermore, the indirect influence of energy consumption targets on sales performance through the contingent energy management practices supports Śmiech and Papież's (2014, p. 118) determination that “energy policy targets influence linkages between energy consumption and economic growth”. Ultimately, energy consumption targets set at national and regional levels need to be cascaded to industrial sectors and households for realisation through national energy efficiency action plans [in the case of the EU] (Monti and Romera, 2020; Trotta, 2020) or similar programmes. For the food sector, agriculture, logistics, catering and manufacturing activities have intensified and exponentially increased global energy consumption in terms of Mtoe [1] (Ma et al.…”

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“…They can take a leaf from Taiwan's book where energy users are required to conduct an energy audit, set energy consumption targets and report their annual energy savings via an online energy declaration system (Hong et al, 2010). Such initiatives are especially relevant to Turkey and its ambitions to join the EU which requires member states to set up a national energy efficiency action plan (Monti and Romera, 2020;Trotta, 2020).…”

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“…Globally, there has been a long-standing international commitment to reduce energy consumption (Trotta, 2020), even prior to the Kyoto protocol of 1997 that extended the United Nations' 1992 climate change agenda (Yao et al, 2019). In recent times, momentum from the Paris Agreement of 2015 has further advanced public interest and research into energy management practices (Dong et al, 2018;Singh et al, 2019).…”

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The correlates of energy management practices and sales performance of small family food firms in Turkey

Onjewu

Puntaier

Hussain

2021

BFJ

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PurposeWhile pursuing energy management, firms simultaneously strive to boost sales as a path towards economic performance. Also, the literature suggests that family firms exhibit greater environmental commitment than their non-family counterparts. To examine these contentions, this review espouses contingency theory to interrogate the correlations of (1) energy consumption targets, (2) energy efficiency enhancing measures, (3) energy consumption monitoring and (4) the domestic sales performance of small family firms in Turkey's food sector.Design/methodology/approachData were sourced from the World Bank Enterprise Survey. A sample of 137 family firms in food production, processing and retail was analysed using non-linear structural equation modelling. Path coefficients were determined to estimate the extent to which energy management practices predict domestic sales.FindingsThe path analysis revealed that although energy consumption targets do not directly increase sales performance, they stimulate firms' energy efficiency enhancement measures and energy consumption monitoring to produce this effect by 21%.Research limitations/implicationsThe contingency lens espoused leaves room to capture further antecedents in small family food firms' technical, managerial, ownership, operational and architectural configuration that may also interact with or predict the propensity for energy management.Practical implicationsFor practitioners, the inherent findings demonstrate that there are firm-specific material benefits arising from adopting energy management practices. And, although small firms such as family food businesses may have low energy intensities, they can improve their sales performance by setting energy targets, installing energy efficiency enhancing measures and embarking on energy consumption monitoring.Social implicationsPublic stakeholders in Turkey such as the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, the General Directorate of Energy Affairs and affiliate institutions can reflect on these findings to develop a coherent national energy management policy for small firms. Such initiatives are especially relevant to Turkey and its ambitions to join the EU which requires member states to set up a national energy efficiency action plan.Originality/valueThis inquiry is one of the first to examine energy management in the food sector at the family firm level through the contingency lens. Theoretically, the results draw attention and shed new light on disparate energy management practices and their discrete yet substantial contribution to sales performance.

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The correlates of energy management practices and sales performance of small family food firms in Turkey

Onjewu

Puntaier

Hussain

2021

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“…On the other hand, further structural change may also counterbalance the previous contribution of structural change. For example, during the period 2006-2015 in Italy, Trotta (2020) show that energy savings enabled by reduced energy consumption in the traditional industrial, transport, and agricultural sectors are partially offset (rebound effect) by energy intensity increases in the freight transport, services, and residential sectors.…”

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Socio-Economic Productive Capacities and Energy Efficiency: Global Evidence by Income Level and Resource Dependence

Demiral¹,

Demiral

2021

Preprint

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This study tests the effects of productive capacities in socio-economic factors (human capital, transport, information-communication technology, institutions, private sector, and structural change) on energy efficiency in a sample of 125 countries. Energy efficiency is assessed by energy productivity (gross domestic product per unit of total primary energy supply) and energy intensity (total primary energy supply per capita). The world sample is divided into four income groups and an income-heterogeneous control group of non-renewable resource-dependent economies. The study utilizes cross-sectionally dependent and stationary panel data over the period 2000-2018. The analysis of variance shows that higher income groups monotonically have higher productive capacities and energy intensity. The regression results from appropriate fixed-effects and random-effects modeling reveal varied driver and barrier influences of the socio-economic factors on energy efficiency improvements (higher energy productivity and lower energy intensity). In some cases, predictors scale up both energy productivity and energy intensity indicating the issue of the rebound effect. Higher human capital capacity stimulates energy efficiency except for middle-income groups. Higher transport capacity reduces energy productivity, except for upper-middle-income economies, and tends to increase energy intensity for low-income and middle-income groups. The deployment of information-communication technologies is positively associated with energy productivity, except for low-income economies. Energy productivity performance of resource-dependent economies is improved by higher productive capacities in institutions and private sectors but impaired by structural change, whereas structural change drives energy efficiency in low-income economies. Additionally, the growth of gross national income per capita worsens energy efficiency for resource-dependent economies. Bidirectional feedback causalities are established between energy efficiency and its predictors in most cases. The heterogeneous findings are discussed for providing research and policy implications.

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Sustainable construction through energy management practices: an integrated hierarchal framework of drivers in the construction sector

Iqbal

Ahmad

et al. 2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Reducing energy usage and promoting energy management practices remain hot issues in the construction sector. Construction firms are not interested to adopt energy conservation and management practices in their projects. Despite the successful integration of energy management practices in developed nations, their adaptability in developing countries, especially in Pakistan, is at a slow pace. Therefore, drivers to energy management practices need to be realized for its adoption. Based on this, the current study intends to evaluate the drivers of energy management practices adopted in the construction sector of Pakistan by using a four-stage methodology. Fuzzy Delphi method (FDM), interpretive structural modeling (ISM), and Matrice d'Impacts Croises Multiplication Appliques a un Classement (MICMAC) analysis were integrated with prioritizing essential drivers. Increased tax imposition on construction companies for energy usage and pollution contribution, promotion of investment subsidies for energy efficiency technologies, and increased enforcement of government rules and regulations regarding on-site energy management practices arose as significant drivers to adoption of energy management practices in the construction sector of Pakistan. These results will be helpful for policymakers to develop effective policies for integrating energy management practices in the construction sector. This study contributes significantly by developing a novel model of drivers affecting EMP adoption in the Pakistani construction sector. Further research might be expanded to other developing countries to validate current results.

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Assessing drivers of energy consumption and progress toward energy targets in Italy

Cited by 23 publications

References 37 publications

The correlates of energy management practices and sales performance of small family food firms in Turkey

The correlates of energy management practices and sales performance of small family food firms in Turkey

Socio-Economic Productive Capacities and Energy Efficiency: Global Evidence by Income Level and Resource Dependence

Sustainable construction through energy management practices: an integrated hierarchal framework of drivers in the construction sector

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