Journal
ENERGY POLICY
Volume 84, Issue -, Pages 166-176Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2015.05.005
Keywords
Energy conservation; Emission reduction; Network DEA
Funding
- National Natural Science Funds of China [71222106, 71110107024]
- Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China [20133402110028]
- Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of P. R. China [201279]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [WK2040160008]
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Energy and environmental issues have recently aroused increasing interest in China and many approaches are used to evaluate energy and environmental performance. In this paper, a two-stage network DEA framework is applied to evaluate the efficiency of energy saving and emission reduction in China during the period of the eleventh five-year plan, from 2006 to 2010. In this study, economic activities are divided into production and treatment processes. This is different from previous research which generally focused on either environmental efficiency or energy efficiency, omitting the integration of energy and environmental measures. Today, energy saving and emission reduction are both parts of the basic state policy of China and are equally important. The empirical results in this study show that: (i) eastern China has the best energy saving and emission reduction efficiency, performing is better than western and central China. (ii) The efficiency of the production process in central China is better than that in western China while the western area performs better than the central area in term of treatment efficiency. (iii) Integrated efficiency of energy saving and emission reduction of China was relatively stable in the five years and the pollution treatment efficiency maintained a rising trend. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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