Journal
ENERGY ECONOMICS
Volume 115, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106346
Keywords
Digital transformation; Electricity consumption; Broadband China pilot policy; Electricity-saving effect; Difference-in-differences (DID) model; China
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Funding
- National Social Science Foun-dation of China
- National Natural Science Founda-tion of China
- Zhejiang Provincial Natural ScienceFoundation of China
- [17BJL074]
- [72004204]
- [LY22G030004]
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This paper investigates the impact of digital transformation on electricity consumption based on the Broadband China pilot policy in China. The results show that digital transformation significantly reduces electricity consumption and intensity through technological optimization and industrial upgrading, especially in cities with large populations and economic sizes. Additionally, the impact of digital transformation on reducing electricity consumption is more significant in the industrial sector than in the household sector.
Taking the Broadband China pilot policy as a quasi-natural experiment, this paper establishes a Difference-in -Differences (DID) model to investigate the impact of digital transformation on electricity consumption based on the panel data of 278 cities in China from 2006 to 2017. The results show that digital transformation significantly reduces electricity consumption and intensity, and this electricity-saving effect is achieved through technological optimization and industrial upgrading brought about by digital transformation. The electricity -saving effect of digital transformation is particularly prominent in cities with large populations and large eco-nomic sizes. In addition, we also find that digital transformation has a more significant impact on reducing electricity consumption in the industrial sector than in the household sector. Our findings provide empirical evidence for reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions through digital technology applications.
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