The impact of environmental regulation on fossil energy consumption in China: Direct and indirect effects

Zhou, Xiaoxiao; Feng, Chao

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.10.152

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“…This means when the intensity of environmental regulations is high, CO 2 emissions increase at the initial stage as the intensity of environmental regulations increases, but decrease after reaching its peak. Strict environmental regulation policies have led the IS companies to increase the demand for high-carbon energy before policy implementation, and energy-owners on the supply side have accelerated energy extraction, resulting in increased CO 2 emissions in the short term [57]. However, strict environmental regulations have made high-energy and high-pollution IS companies bear high production costs, suppress their development, encourage large enterprises to switch to cleaner production models, and promote the technology innovation of the IS industry to reduce CO 2 emissions [58].…”

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An Inverted-U Impact of Environmental Regulations on Carbon Emissions in China’s Iron and Steel Industry: Mechanisms of Synergy and Innovation Effects

Fan

Zhou

2020

Sustainability

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Based on a panel data of China’s iron and steel (IS) industry from 2000 to 2014, this paper explores the impact of environmental regulations on CO2 emissions in the industry. The results show that there is a clear inverted-U relationship between environmental regulations and CO2 emissions in the IS industry. Additionally, there are regional heterogeneity and regulatory intensity on the impact of environmental regulations on CO2 emissions. The results in the eastern region are consistent with the whole sample results, while the upward trend in the central region and the downward trend in the western region together lay the basis for the inverted-U shape of the whole sample. High environmental regulations affect CO2 emissions in an inverted-U shape, while low environmental regulations present a U shape. The mechanisms of environmental regulations affecting CO2 emissions are synergy effect and technological innovation effect. Finally, this paper proposes some policy recommendations according to the above findings.

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Section: Heterogeneity Analysis: Sub-samplementioning

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An Inverted-U Impact of Environmental Regulations on Carbon Emissions in China’s Iron and Steel Industry: Mechanisms of Synergy and Innovation Effects

Fan

Zhou

2020

Sustainability

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“…This can force officials to implement higher environmental standards to win more elections [58], so local government officials seeking economic development to the detriment of the environment can be curbed. However, in China, provincial governments with no constraint from the bottom inevitably race to the bottom in environmental regulation [59], which means that officials usually maintain economic growth during their tenure by easing environmental regulations.…”

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Centralization or Decentralization of Environmental Governance—Evidence from China

Luo

Li³

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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From the perspective of environmental federalism, we extracted the environmental intention words from the work reports of China’s central and provincial governments through data mining, and used the instrumental variable method to conduct empirical experiments concerning the dispute between centralization and decentralization of environmental governance in the Chinese context. The results suggest that a negative correlation exists between the intention of the central government’s environmental governance and the provincial environmental quality, whereas a positive correlation exists between the intention of the provincial government and the provincial environmental quality. Our interpretation is that environmental centralization, coupled with its political, economic, and cultural factors, has converted provincial governments into supporters of environmental pollution, and that the central government’s ongoing environmental protection inspection campaign has forced the provincial government to be somewhat effective. We propose establishing Chinese-style cooperative federalism in environmental authority and not only centralizing or decentralizing in one direction. New transition mechanisms for the central government’s authority should be implemented, such as the environmental protection inspection groups mechanism and the ecological gross domestic product based political tournament.

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“…PV and wind turbine (WT) have been considered the most promising renewable energy options for off-grid areas or islands to fulfill the energy demand [14][15][16]. Even stand-alone wind and solar…”

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Optimal Configuration with Capacity Analysis of a Hybrid Renewable Energy and Storage System for an Island Application

Tsai

Beza

et al. 2019

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The Philippines consists of 7100 islands, many of which still use fossil fuel diesel generators as the main source of electricity. This supply can be complemented by the use of renewable energy sources. This study uses a Philippine offshore island to optimize the capacity configuration of a hybrid energy system (HES). A thorough investigation was performed to understand the operating status of existing diesel generator sets, load power consumption, and collect the statistics of meteorological data and economic data. Using the Hybrid Optimization Models for Energy Resources (HOMER) software we simulate and analyze the techno-economics of different power supply systems containing stand-alone diesel systems, photovoltaic (PV)-diesel HES, wind-diesel HES, PV-wind-diesel HES, PV-diesel-storage HES, wind-diesel-storage HES, PV-wind-diesel-storage HES. In addition to the lowest cost of energy (COE), capital cost, fuel saving and occupied area, the study also uses entropy weight and the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method to evaluate the optimal capacity configuration. The proposed method can also be applied to design hybrid renewable energy systems for other off-grid areas.Energies 2020, 13, 8 2 of 28 energy may fulfill the low load requirements, while these systems need a significant energy storage for higher loads, resulting in high COE [17][18][19]. The other option to alleviate this problem is autonomous hybrid renewable energy systems (HRES) which combine two or more energy resources, to fulfill higher energy requirements of off-grid areas and resolve the inherent problem of single renewable energy (RE) resource [1,[20][21][22][23][24]. Furthermore, hybridization of energy sources increases the reliability of the system as the shortcomings of any component are compensated for by the selection of other but appropriate components and their sizing is essential during design of such systems [25][26][27]. Some of the hybrid energy systems with different storage technologies and performance measure criteria found in literatures are presented in Table 1 [ 12,28,29].

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The impact of environmental regulation on fossil energy consumption in China: Direct and indirect effects

Cited by 140 publications

References 48 publications

An Inverted-U Impact of Environmental Regulations on Carbon Emissions in China’s Iron and Steel Industry: Mechanisms of Synergy and Innovation Effects

An Inverted-U Impact of Environmental Regulations on Carbon Emissions in China’s Iron and Steel Industry: Mechanisms of Synergy and Innovation Effects

Centralization or Decentralization of Environmental Governance—Evidence from China

Optimal Configuration with Capacity Analysis of a Hybrid Renewable Energy and Storage System for an Island Application

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