Structural Evolution of Household Energy Consumption: A China Study

Wang, Qingsong; Liu, Ping; Yuan, Xueliang; Cheng, Xingxing; Ma, Rujian; Mu, Ruimin; Zuo, Jian

doi:10.3390/su7043919

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“…Ecological crises, such as smog and severe water pollution, occur more frequently. China has become one of the world's most polluted countries that have severe impacts on the ecological system [1][2][3]. It is not sustainable to maintain a rapid economy growth on the cost of environment and excessive consumption of natural resources.…”

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Assessment of the Sustainable Development Capacity with the Entropy Weight Coefficient Method

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Sustainable development is widely accepted in the world. How to reflect the sustainable development capacity of a region is an important issue for enacting policies and plans. An index system for capacity assessment is established by employing the Entropy Weight Coefficient method. The results indicate that the sustainable development capacity of Shandong Province is improving in terms of its economy subsystem, resource subsystem, and society subsystem whilst degrading in its environment subsystem. Shandong Province has shown the general trend towards sustainable development. However, the sustainable development capacity can be constrained by the resources such as energy, land, water, as well as environmental protection. These issues are induced by the economy development model, the security of energy supply, the level of new energy development, the end-of-pipe control of pollution, and the level of science and technology commercialization. Efforts are required to accelerate the development of the tertiary industry, the commercialization of high technology, the development of new energy and renewable energy, and the structure OPEN ACCESS Sustainability 2015, 7 13543 optimization of energy mix. Long-term measures need to be established for the ecosystem and environment protection.

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“…The energy consumption per unit of GDP decreased by 5% on a year-on-year basis, and its non-fossil energy consumption reached 13.3%, increased by 1.3%. Wang et al believed that as a result of urbanization, the transformation of the energy consumption structure was inevitable [57,58]. The energy structure should be continuously optimized by reducing consumption intensity and developing new renewable energy [59].…”

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An Early Warning System for Oil Security in China

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Abstract:The oil system security in a country or region will affect its sustainable development ability. China's oil security has risen to the national strategic level. It is urgent to construct an early warning indicator system to reflect the oil security level accurately, as well as to diagnose and assess the oil system status effectively and put forward the corresponding proposals for ensuring oil security. An early warning indicator system of China's oil system covering 23 sub-indicators from three aspects, i.e., resource security, market security and consumption security, was constructed using the SPSS (Statistical Product and Service Solutions) factor analysis method. It shows that China's oil system safety level has been seriously threatened and is generally declining. However, due to the strong introduction of energy policies and increasing energy utilization technology in recent years, the increasing proportion of new energy, renewable energy and oil substitutes eases the energy security threats. In response to complex oil security issues, the Chinese government needs to strengthen macroeconomic regulation and control at the policy level continuously, increase efforts to explore resource reserves, upgrade energy conservation and emission reduction technologies, develop new alternatives for oil products, and reduce the dependence on international oil imports.

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“…As a result, the proportion of tertiary industry can be continuously increased so that the industrial structure can be improved. According to Wang et al [47], with the rapid urbanization in China and the rapid development of tertiary industry, the structure of living energy consumption will change and the consumption of living energy will grow rapidly. Therefore, in order to mitigate the energy rebound effect, China government should pay more attention to the living energy consumption issues derived from tertiary industry.…”

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Exploring the Direct Rebound Effect of Energy Consumption: A Case Study

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Technological innovation plays a crucial role for improving energy efficiency. But the excessive energy consumption has presented a significant challenge at the same time, which indicates that the direct energy rebound effect exists in China. Cobb-Douglas production function and Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index decomposition model are employed to analyze the rebound effect of energy consumption of all three main industries sector in China. The results show that total technological effect curve and total substitution effect curve fluctuated more significantly than total structure effect curve from 1991 to 2014.The first two curves were the most critical factors for the energy consumption intensity. Stabilizing energy prices, developing new and renewable energy and implementing policies related to energy conservation and emission reduction are effective measures to reduce energy consumption intensity. More attention should be paid to the growing demand for living energy consumption derived from the rapid development of the tertiary industry. The direct rebound effect of energy consumption in China showed an overall descending trend. This shows that technological effect has well prevented the growth of energy consumption. Direct energy rebound effect can be controlled effectively by means of formulating and implementing the corresponding energy related policies.

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Structural Evolution of Household Energy Consumption: A China Study

Cited by 16 publications

References 42 publications

Assessment of the Sustainable Development Capacity with the Entropy Weight Coefficient Method

Assessment of the Sustainable Development Capacity with the Entropy Weight Coefficient Method

An Early Warning System for Oil Security in China

Exploring the Direct Rebound Effect of Energy Consumption: A Case Study

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