PESTEL analysis of the development of the waste-to-energy incineration industry in China

Song, Jinbo; Sun, Yan; Jin, Lulu

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2017.05.066

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“…As the most important risk factor in this study, the public opposition risk factor has high levels in both occurrence probability and severity. In recent years, anti‐incineration campaigns have occurred frequently in China, with a series of negative impacts on the incineration plants such as the cancelation, suspension, and even closing of these projects . The reasons should be analyzed by combining local residents' psychology, economics, society, etc First, as infrastructure, the benefits of WTE incineration plants are shared by society as a whole.…”

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“…In recent years, anti-incineration campaigns have occurred frequently in China, with a series of negative impacts on the incineration plants such as the cancelation, suspension, and even closing of these projects. 36 The reasons should be analyzed by combining local residents' psychology, economics, society, etc First, as infrastructure, the benefits of WTE incineration plants are shared by society as a whole. However, the disadvantages are mainly borne by local residents, causing strong psychological imbalances, who are against other nearby residents.…”

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Determining critical risk factors affecting public‐private partnership waste‐to‐energy incineration projects in China

Cui

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Liu

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Energy Science & Engineering

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As the most effective way to manage the surge in municipal solid waste (MSW) and global energy issues, waste‐to‐energy (WTE) incineration plants have been actively promoted by the Chinese government, and the public‐private partnership (PPP) procurement model is widely used to improve management efficiency. However, risk events have occurred frequently in this industry due to a lack of practice experience and to poor risk management. To investigate the potential risk factors in PPP WTE incineration projects in China, this paper aims to identify critical risk factors by assessing their severity and occurrence probability. Opinions of industry experts were collected via an empirical questionnaire survey. The respondents were invited to rate a total of 18 risk factors that impact the success of PPP WTE projects as gleaned from previous research. The overall results ranked risk factors based on risk impact and showed that public opposition, government decision making, defective legal and regulatory systems, environmental pollution, lack of supporting infrastructure, and government credit are the top six risk factors affecting the sustainable development of PPP WTE incineration projects. In addition, the causes and consequences of each critical risk factor are comprehensively analyzed. Lastly, practical and managerial implications are analyzed in terms of their management of these critical risks. The originality of this research lies in thoroughly identifying potential implicit risk factors according to the current social background using an empirical questionnaire survey based on case study findings. The results of this study are expected to improve risk management and facilitate the sustainable development of the PPP WTE incineration industry in China.

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Determining critical risk factors affecting public‐private partnership waste‐to‐energy incineration projects in China

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Liu

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Energy Science & Engineering

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“…The methodology could be successfully used in different fields: for the development of industry [41], for studying government challenges [42], and for integrated Strategy Framework development [43]. The result of the PESTEL analysis is often used to identify threats and weaknesses as input for a SWOT analysis.…”

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Situation Analysis of Policies for Electric Mobility Development: Experience from Five European Regions

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The decarbonization of the mobility and energy sector is one of the major necessary trends for achieving targets set for the European Union (EU) in the 2020 and 2030 climate and energy frameworks. Two key technologies which offer great potential for climate change mitigation are electric vehicles (EVs) and renewable energies (REs). Thus, there is the need for innovative and stable policies in order to favor these technologies. The purpose of the study is to identify and compare features of policies for the integration of EVs, REs, and information and communication technology (ICT). This study uses an integrated Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT), and Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental and Legal (PESTEL) qualitative methodology in order to show different policies and initiatives, related to e-mobility, RE and ICT, collected from five European regions. This research provides discernments to the EVs and RE challenges, such as the lack of capacity to deal with high energy demands or limited EV-charging infrastructure. On the contrary, a high percentage of REs share, raising climate change awareness, and decreasing EV prices which are great opportunities for the whole EU. Such insights encourage policymakers and other groups of interest to improve their RE and mobility policies, which could lead to effective sustainable mobility systems in urban areas.Sustainability 2020, 12, 2935 2 of 21 vehicles (EVs) and renewable energies (REs). Therefore, it is important to co-develop a framework of experiences and policies where energy and mobility will work together and not act as different entities. For this reason, the INTERREG EUROPE EV ENERGY (Electric Vehicles for City Renewable Energy Supply) project consortium was created. The partners from five European regions (Italy, Lithuania, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands) have identified a need for a common framework and repository of interrelated and analyzed policies and initiatives to lay the basis for systematic interregional dissemination. The majority of the partners have gained experience in analyzing opportunities and developing actions and policies. This research provides insight into the EV and RE challenges and opportunities within the European Region project partners.Registrations of new electric cars in 2017 reached over 1 million sales worldwide; as a result, the global stock exceeded 3 million electric cars in 2017 [4]. That notwithstanding, EVs will be even more advantageous if electricity is generated by RE sources [5,6]. The implementation growth of support schemes for RE technology and decreasing costs of RE systems made a positive impact in the consumption of RE [7]. The share of RE in gross final energy consumption reached 18.9% in 2018 (from 8.5% in 2004). Moreover, the transport sector increased the share of RE to 8.3% in 2018RE to 8.3% in , compared to 3.1% in 2007. Smart charging applications could also boost the share of RE used to charge the EVs; in particular, wind and solar energy is becoming an importan...

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“…Fossil-fuel electric power generation was found to be the main cause of air pollution in the past century [50]. The general and widespread treatment of those hazardous particles in current China is landfilling [51]. As those wastes require a long term to be degraded, the land which is occupied by landfill is far from being used for other purposes.…”

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Towards a sustainable distributed energy system in China: decision-making for strategies and policy implications

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Background: The conflict between the Chinese fossil fuel-based economy and worsening environmental conditions requires further research to be carried out. Due to their clean, highly-efficient and flexible properties, distributed energy systems (DESs) have become a global research focus in the field of energy conservation. China, as the largest coal-fired energy user and highest power consumer in the world, has to conduct further research and apply the DESs to resolve the conflict. This study aims to provide a comprehensive review of DES development in China as well as improvement suggestions for the development of DESs by use of scientific analysis. Methods: The analysis of strengths-weaknesses-opportunities threats (SWOT) was adapted for the analysis of improvement strategies. The directions for how to improve the application of these strategies were selected by the prioritization method of analytic hierarchy processes (AHP) and evaluated by the best-worst method (BWM). The suggestions were provided according to the ranks figured out by AHP and BWM. Five enablers were selected from the respective economic, environmental, technological and social aspects for participating in this analysis. Results: Resulting from the SWOT analysis, capital investment, technology development and regulation completeness are three aspects of strategies summarized as SO strategies, ST strategies, WO strategies and WT strategies. The research perspectives of DESs that are suggested for investment, technology development and regulation completeness are illustrated by AHP and BWM. The results show that the reduction of solid particle emissions, the improvement of generation reliability, the improvement of the production rate, the reduction of production costs, the improvement of on-site safety, the fulfilment of electricity demand, the reduction of noxious gas emissions as well as the improvement of energy efficiency need to be carried out for the sake of environmental protection and quality of DES generation in China.Conclusions: There are high potentials for China to further develop and apply DES approaches. The direction of current development might be set to solve three problematic aspects, which are capital investment, technology development and regulation completeness.

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PESTEL analysis of the development of the waste-to-energy incineration industry in China

Cited by 188 publications

References 20 publications

Determining critical risk factors affecting public‐private partnership waste‐to‐energy incineration projects in China

Determining critical risk factors affecting public‐private partnership waste‐to‐energy incineration projects in China

Situation Analysis of Policies for Electric Mobility Development: Experience from Five European Regions

Towards a sustainable distributed energy system in China: decision-making for strategies and policy implications

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