Business cycle and economic-wide energy intensity: The implications for energy conservation policy in Algeria

Adom, Philip Kofi

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2015.05.051

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“…This is an indication of how inefficient energy is used in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Consequently, carbon dioxide emissions from energy sources are growing in the region (see Adom ( 2015 ); Adom and Amuakwa-Mensah ( 2016 )). Given that the population in the region is expected to exceed 1.75 billion by 2040 and economic growth is expected to be robust in the future, there is likely to be a sustained increase in energy use in the future.…”

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Quality of institution and the FEG (forest, energy intensity, and globalization) -environment relationships in sub-Saharan Africa

Amuakwa–Mensah

Adom

2017

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The current share of sub-Saharan Africa in global carbon dioxide emissions is negligible compared to major contributors like Asia, Americas, and Europe. This trend is, however, likely to change given that both economic growth and rate of urbanization in the region are projected to be robust in the future. The current study contributes to the literature by examining both the direct and the indirect impacts of quality of institution on the environment. Specifically, we investigate whether the institutional setting in the region provides some sort of a complementary role in the environment-FEG relationships. We use the panel two-step system generalized method of moments (GMM) technique to deal with the simultaneity problem. Data consists of 43 sub-Saharan African countries. The result shows that energy inefficiency compromises environmental standards. However, the quality of the institutional setting helps moderate this negative consequences; countries with good institutions show greater prospects than countries with poor institutions. On the other hand, globalization of the region and increased forest size generate positive environmental outcomes in the region. Their impacts are, however, independent of the quality of institution. Afforestation programs, promotion of other clean energy types, and investment in energy efficiency, basic city infrastructure, and regulatory and institutional structures, are desirable policies to pursue to safeguard the environment.

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Quality of institution and the FEG (forest, energy intensity, and globalization) -environment relationships in sub-Saharan Africa

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Adom

2017

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“…The high energy consumption in China has led to increasing emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) and worsening energy shortages to meet domestic demand of the energy in China [24][25][26][27][28]. The fluctuations of China's energy intensity have attracted the attention of many scholars, but fewer studies consider the data quality of official input-output tables [29][30][31][32][33][34]. In China, many earlier studies investigated energy intensity and related economic determinants among the country's regions and provinces [34][35][36][37][38][39].…”

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“…This draws attention to a significant matter: which macroeconomic and microeconomic conditions encourage representatives to be energy aware? In Africa, many studies [31][32][33] analyzed the problem of energy intensity determinants based on different econometric approaches in South Africa, Nigeria, and Algeria respectively. These studies provide a solid background into the productivity of voluntary and involuntary energy tradition regulations, the privilege of ministry-conventional energy support minimizing regulation, the function of technology in energy tradition, and the function of utilization ability on the influence of gross fixed capital formation on energy intensity.…”

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“…On the other hand, the negative influence of the technological movement of energy intensity would generate from the disturbance of the energy rebound effect. However, numerous studies [33,34,36,40,47] analyzed the problem of energy intensity determinants, relying on the oriented least square and related random and fixed effect models. Another study [32] applied Autoregressive Distributed Lag models such as augmented mean group and mean group estimation using three different channels (one, two and three) to estimate the determinants of energy intensity problems.…”

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Bioenergy Intensity and Its Determinants in European Continental Countries: Evidence Using GMM Estimation

Alsaleh

Abdul‐Rahim

2019

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This study contributes to the existing literature by examining bioenergy intensity and its related factors in European continental countries (ECC). Through its focus on European continental (EC), this study extends the existing literature, which mainly covers nationwide studies. The current paper aims to investigate the variables of bioenergy intensity in the ECC during the term 2005–2013, construct its economic variables, and evaluate the volume and significance level of the impact of each variable on bioenergy intensity. To successfully achieve this analysis, a generalised method of moments estimator (GMM) was designed for ECC. The estimated models show that available bioenergy for final consumption has a positive impact on bioenergy intensity in ECC. The largest influence on bioenergy intensity was evaluated for the annual growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), followed by the investment and referral that the scale and construction of this economic variable should be taken into consideration and applied as a precious bioenergy regulation and policy instruments for developing bioenergy intensity and efficiency.

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“…Nevertheless, Raza and Shahbaz [78] investigated the energy-growth-trade nexus in Pakistan and stated that energy conservation policies will reduce trade performance, leading to a decline in economic growth in Pakistan. Adom [79] argued that, as long as industrial expansion in the country moves in tandem with investment in technological innovation, long-term sustainable growth and energy conservation targets are jointly feasible in Algeria. Ji and Chen [80] evaluated the energy saving effect of China's urbanization based on provincial panel data.…”

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Modeling Interprovincial Cooperative Energy Saving in China: An Electricity Utilization Perspective

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Abstract:As the world faces great challenges from climate change and environmental pollution, China urgently requires energy saving, emission reduction, and carbon reduction programmes. However, the non-cooperative energy saving model (NCESM), the simple regulation mode that is China's main model for energy saving, is not beneficial for optimization of energy and resource distribution, and cannot effectively motivate energy saving at the provincial level. Therefore, we propose an interprovincial cooperative energy saving model (CESM) from the perspective of electricity utilization, with the object of maximizing the benefits from electricity utilization of the cooperation union based on achieving the energy saving goals of the union as a whole. The CESM consists of two parts: (1) an optimization model that calculates the optimal quantities of electricity consumption for each participating province to meet the joint energy saving goal; and (2) a model that distributes the economic benefits of the cooperation among the provinces in the cooperation based on the Shapley value method. We applied the CESM to the case of an interprovincial union of Shanghai, Sichuan, Shanxi, and Gansu in China. The results, based on the data from 2001-2014, show that cooperation can significantly increase the benefits of electricity utilization for each province in the union. The total benefits of the union from utilization of electricity increased 38.38%, or 353.98 billion CNY, while the benefits to Shanghai, Sichuan, Shanxi, and Gansu were 200.28, 58.37, 57.11, and 38.22 billion CNY respectively greater under the CESM than the NCESM. The implementation of the CESM provides the provincial governments not only a flexible and incentive way to achieve short-term goals, but also a feasible and effective path to realize long-term energy saving strategies. To test the impact of different parameter values on the results of the CESM, a sensitivity analysis was conducted. Some policy recommendations are made at the central government level and the provincial government level to promote the implementation of the CESM.

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Business cycle and economic-wide energy intensity: The implications for energy conservation policy in Algeria

Cited by 28 publications

References 36 publications

Quality of institution and the FEG (forest, energy intensity, and globalization) -environment relationships in sub-Saharan Africa

Quality of institution and the FEG (forest, energy intensity, and globalization) -environment relationships in sub-Saharan Africa

Bioenergy Intensity and Its Determinants in European Continental Countries: Evidence Using GMM Estimation

Modeling Interprovincial Cooperative Energy Saving in China: An Electricity Utilization Perspective

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