Journal:Energy Policy
Key Words:Energy efficiency, CO2 emissions, Data envelopment analysis
Abstract:Global awareness on energy security and climate change has created much interest in assessing
economy-wide energy efficiency performance. A number of previous studies have contributed to
evaluate energy efficiency performance using different analytical techniques among which data
envelopment analysis (DEA) has recently received increasing attention. Most of DEA-related energy
efficiency studies do not consider undesirable outputs such as CO2 emissions in their modeling
framework, which may lead to biased energy efficiency values. Within a joint production framework of desirable and undesirable outputs, in this paper we construct both static and dynamic energy efficiency performance indexes for measuring industrial energy efficiency performance by using several environmental DEA models with CO2 emissions. The dynamic energy efficiency performance indexes have further been decomposed into two contributing components. We finally....
Indexed by:Journal paper
Discipline:Management Science
First-Level Discipline:Management Science and Engineering
Document Type:J
Volume:49
Page Number:164-172
Translation or Not:no
Date of Publication:2012-01-16
Included Journals:SSCI