Measurement and decomposition of energy-saving and emissions reduction performance in Chinese cities》.pdfVIP

Applied Energy 151 (2015) 85–92 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Applied Energy journal homepage: www.elsevi /locat e/apenergy Measurement and decomposition of energy-saving and emissions reduction performance in Chinese cities Qunwei Wang a,b,c, Bin Su b, Jiasen Sun a,⇑, Peng Zhou c, Dequn Zhou c a School of Business Soochow Think Tank, Soochow University, No. 50 Donghuan Road, Suzhou 215021, China b Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore, No. 29 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, 119620, Singapore c Research Centre for Soft Energy Science, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, No. 29 Jiangjun Avenue, Nanjing 211106, China h i g h l i g h t s We propose an energy-saving and emission reduction (ESER) performance index. Inefficient management and technology gap are the two main sources of ESER performance lose. The relationship between ESER performance and economic development is U-shaped. The heterogeneities of production technologies related to ESER are universal in Chinese cities. We propose four combinable strategies for improving ESER performance. a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Taking into account the heterogeneity of production technologies across Chinese cities, we adopted a Received 21 November 2014 meta-frontier function and a non-radial directional distance function to construct an index that compre- Received in revised form 18 March 2015 hensively evaluates the performance achieved by coupling energy-saving and emissions reduction. We Accepted 9 April 2015