TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluating the direct rebound effect of China's urban household energy demand
AU - Yang, Qian Ru
AU - Zhang, Kun
AU - Yuan, Xiao Xia
AU - Liang, Qiao Mei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of ICAE2018 - The 10th International Conference on Applied Energy.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Improving energy efficiency is the primary way to achieve the objective of energy policies. The size of rebound effect determines to what extent improvements on energy efficiency can achieve the intended goals. Therefore, measuring the rebound effect will play an important role in formulating a nation's energy policy. Based on the panel data of 29 provinces in China during 1996-2014, and using the price elasticity of energy demand as a proxy variable, this study applied the error correction model to measure the long-term and short-term direct rebound effect of urban household energy use in China. The difference in rebound effects among different regions was also analyzed. The results show that the direct rebound effect of urban household energy use in China is 45% in the long term and 20% in the short term. In this perspective, the past energy efficiency improvement policies are effective. As for different regions, the direct rebound effects of urban household energy use in Eastern, Central and Western regions are 46%, 26% and 89%in the long term, 35%, 17% and 78% in the short term respectively. Therefore, energy efficiency policies should be firstly implemented in the Central provinces that are with relatively small rebound effects.
AB - Improving energy efficiency is the primary way to achieve the objective of energy policies. The size of rebound effect determines to what extent improvements on energy efficiency can achieve the intended goals. Therefore, measuring the rebound effect will play an important role in formulating a nation's energy policy. Based on the panel data of 29 provinces in China during 1996-2014, and using the price elasticity of energy demand as a proxy variable, this study applied the error correction model to measure the long-term and short-term direct rebound effect of urban household energy use in China. The difference in rebound effects among different regions was also analyzed. The results show that the direct rebound effect of urban household energy use in China is 45% in the long term and 20% in the short term. In this perspective, the past energy efficiency improvement policies are effective. As for different regions, the direct rebound effects of urban household energy use in Eastern, Central and Western regions are 46%, 26% and 89%in the long term, 35%, 17% and 78% in the short term respectively. Therefore, energy efficiency policies should be firstly implemented in the Central provinces that are with relatively small rebound effects.
KW - China
KW - Direct rebound effect
KW - Energy efficiency
KW - Error correction model
KW - Urban households
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85063867552&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.egypro.2019.01.819
DO - 10.1016/j.egypro.2019.01.819
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85063867552
SN - 1876-6102
VL - 158
SP - 4135
EP - 4140
JO - Energy Procedia
JF - Energy Procedia
T2 - 10th International Conference on Applied Energy, ICAE 2018
Y2 - 22 August 2018 through 25 August 2018
ER -
