Assessing the effects of technological progress on energy efficiency in the construction industry: A case of China

Zhu, Wenbin; Zhang, Zhihui; Li, Xiaodong; Feng, Wei; Li, Jifeng

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.117908

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“… Technological progress ( TP ) The natural logarithm of the number of patents authorized by provinces Drawn from Wang and Wang [ 52 ], Zhu et al. [ 53 ] and Li and Lin [ 54 ], who believed that TP could improve the energy efficiency. Energy price ( EP ) The ratio of total energy price to output price The change of EP will directly affect the cost and profit of energy use and indirectly influence the energy consumption behavior.…”

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“…The research on factors affecting energy efficiency mainly focus on technical progress [ [52] , [53] , [54] ], industrial structure [ 55 , 56 ], energy price [ 57 , 58 ], economic level [ 59 ], industrial agglomeration [ 60 , 61 ], degree of openness [ [62] , [63] , [64] ], urbanization level [ 26 , 65 ], human capital [ 3 ], policy mechanism [ 66 ] and so on. Wang et al.…”

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Revisiting China’s provincial energy efficiency and its influencing factors

Liu

Zhang

Tao

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Improving the energy efficiency is a fundamental way to ensure energy security and sustainable development, and is also the requirement of supply-side structural reform of China’s energy. This paper uses the DEA-BCC model to estimate China’s energy efficiency at the provincial level, analyzes its regional differences from 2006 to 2016, and applies a panel data model to analyze the influencing factors of energy efficiency. It selects labor, capital stock and total energy consumption as inputs and takes real GDP and comprehensive index of environmental pollution as desirable and undesirable outputs, respectively. The results show that (1) energy efficiency when undesirable output is included is generally lower than when undesirable output is excluded; (2) There is a considerable difference in energy efficiency among provinces, and China’s energy efficiency, by and large, shows a trend of declining. The energy efficiency of four major regions demonstrates obvious regional differences: coastal region>northeastern region> middle region >western region; (3) The economic development level, technological progress, energy price and urbanization level are positively associated with energy efficiency, while the proportion of secondary industry and the energy consumption structure dominated by coal and oil are negatively correlated with energy efficiency.

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Section: Empirical Results and Discussionmentioning

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Revisiting China’s provincial energy efficiency and its influencing factors

Liu

Zhang

Tao

et al. 2020

Energy

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“…The growing focus on energy and its en- The current two challenges of environmental degradation and energy scarcity (Jiang et al, 2018;Lin & Zhou, 2019;Shao et al, 2019;Zhu & Lin, 2020) are likely to continue as bottlenecks of sustainable development in China. Nevertheless, the move towards energy structure changes (Wang et al, 2016;Yang et al, 2018;, new policy formation for cities of different sizes (Deng et al, 2020c), progress in green economy improvement (Li & Lin, 2016;Pan et al, 2019), efficiency change in technological progress (Pan et al, 2019;Zhu et al, 2019;Zhou et al, 2020), and clean energy to gradually enter the social market focuses on the recent two FYPs, the longer-term transitions could be looked at from the earlier dates and to include a larger set of data on urban energy data and details of the FYPs from at least the 1970s onwards. These data could be looked at comparatively with other locales to better evaluate the institutional frameworks and provide action plans and policy development that is in line with not only the SDGs but the longer-term sustainable development for the energy sector, specifically for the urban energy sector.…”

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Towards Urban Energy Management: A Brief Review of China’s Recent Transition in Urban Energy Demand

Cheshmehzangi¹

2020

LCE

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It is widely accepted the lifeblood of urban economy and growth is energy. Urban transport, infrastructure, industry, and dwellings dominate energy consumption in the built environment. Nevertheless, energy efficiency in urban growth is a key factor that is widely questioned and little understood. As a result, this paper aims to question challenging matters of urban growth and energy by reviewing China's recent transition in urban energy demand. This study offers a better understanding of urban energy management and energy demands of rapidly urbanizing countries, by using China as a leading example. Since the 1980s, after the unprecedented rapid urbanization and growth in China, there are major goals to tackle the emerging matters of urban energy management and growing energy demands. These national-level challenges are imposing serious threats to how cities grow and are managed in the coming decade or so. In light of this, and the face of rapid urbanization and urban growth, this paper investigates China's current trends of urban energy management and energy demands. Finally, this paper explores current approaches to urban development in China and will offer an overview of China's requirement to tackle its current energy challenges. The findings of this study are highlighted as part of a brief review of China's recent five-year-plans and are then developed further in the light of what energy targets mean for cities and urban management.

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“…Golenko-Ginzburg et al [7] noted in their work that the provision of production includes various levels of delivery times taking into account needs. Authors of this paper suggest minimizing non-operational average system costs through process modeling of When assessing the impact of a technical process on energy efficiency in construction, Weina Zhu, Zhihui Zhang, Xiaodong Li, Wei Feng, Jifeng Li [8] have applied the Cobb-Douglas model of the production function, choosing three key factors of technological progress (efficiency of machinery and equipment, changing proportions of energy structures and investments in research and development). They offer recommendations for advancing energy efficiency in the construction industry.…”

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Model of optimization of materials and equipment for machinery fleet when servicing objects of reclamation systems

Apatenko

Sevryugina

2020

E3S Web Conf.

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Factors defining business adaptability to economic changes were identified. Creation of service clusters will provide the balance of interests for all agencies using technological machines and increase their performance. The result of the study is a solution of the optimization task aimed at determining the criteria of economic activities of a network of enterprises that service objects of amelioration with the use of various equipment. This solution enables regulating the level of materials and equipment taking into account the expected demand for repair stock and expected minimization of transportation costs for distributing stocks with estimate of the function of flow rates accounting. The system of distributing dead stocks of materials and equipment is proposed. The authors elaborated the economic-and-mathematical model for storage costs optimization when warehousing and selling unused materials and equipment. Results of testing the distribution scheme for dead stock of materials and equipment belonging to Stroytekhnika company, who is a supplier of consumables, fuel and lubricants, as well as spare parts for reclamation and road construction machinery.

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Assessing the effects of technological progress on energy efficiency in the construction industry: A case of China

Cited by 75 publications

References 67 publications

Revisiting China’s provincial energy efficiency and its influencing factors

Revisiting China’s provincial energy efficiency and its influencing factors

Towards Urban Energy Management: A Brief Review of China’s Recent Transition in Urban Energy Demand

Model of optimization of materials and equipment for machinery fleet when servicing objects of reclamation systems

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