Journal:Computational Economics
Key Words:Energy congestion · Data envelopment analysis · Energy efficiency · China
Abstract:Measuring the magnitude of energy congestion provides useful information for determining the optimal level of energy input with reference to other inputs. This paper clarifies the concept of energy congestion and adapts a slacks-basedDEAmethod
to examine the energy congestion effect in Chinese industrial sectors over time. Our empirical results show that Chinese industrial sectors showed an increasing trend in energy congestion. The size of energy congestion effect varied across different provinces and regions. The central area had a significantly higher amount of energy congestion than that in west area, while the east area registered for the lowest energy
congestion inefficiency. On average, 32 % of the energy consumption in Chinese industry was excessively used. A multiple regression analysis within a panel data analysis framework shows that the total energy consumption and industrial value
added per capita have a positive while total-factor energy efficiency has a negative effect..
Indexed by:Journal paper
Discipline:Management Science
First-Level Discipline:Management Science and Engineering
Volume:46
Issue:3
Page Number:479-494
Translation or Not:no
Date of Publication:2015-12-16
Included Journals:SSCI