Electricity price and industrial green productivity: Does the “low-electricity price trap” exist?

Ai, Hongshan; Xiong, Shiya; Li, Ke; Jia, Pinrong

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2020.118239

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“…In addition, the conclusions of recent studies have provided evidence for the rationality of differential electricity pricing (DEP), under which policy firms are compelled to accelerate equipment upgrades, and energyintensive industries are stimulated to make technological improvement (Yang et al, 2021;Zheng et al, 2021). This is consistent with the findings of positive relationship between a raise of electricity price and a boost in industrial competitiveness or total factor productivity (TFP) (Mordue, 2017;Elliott et al, 2019;Ai et al, 2020). Moreover, the electricity price is found to have a long influence on renewable energy (RE) innovation (Lin and Chen, 2019).…”

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The Impact of Electricity Price on Power-Generation Structure: Evidence From China

Jing

2021

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Being affected by a variety of factors, power-generation structure plays an essential role in a high-quality and sustainable development. The focus of this paper is to evaluate the influence of electricity price on it. First, we provide a microeconomic framework to understand the impact mechanism. We discuss two effects through which price level can affect power generation, and then the power-generation structure. After that, an empirical test is conducted using provincial panel data, and the results of it are robust. We also test the above-mentioned mechanism empirically. There are two main conclusions. First, the electricity price has a positive effect on the share of thermal power in electricity generation. Second, the mechanism test shows that an increase of electricity price can not only improve efficiency of power plants but also propel firms to invest in more renewable energy plants.

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The Impact of Electricity Price on Power-Generation Structure: Evidence From China

Jing

2021

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…The rising electricity price in the country brings great challenge to the consumers, especially the large industrial consumers. However, Ai et al [13] urged that increasing electricity price has good side in that it could force the enterprises to carry out technological innovation, and improve efficiency of energy utilization.…”

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A Critical Review on the Development and Utilization of Energy Systems in Uganda

Bongomin¹,

Nziu²

2022

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We live in the world that is completely entangled on energy and thus, Humankind can no longer do without it, power. With electricity being the main form of energy today, this has increased the complexity of our life today. In Uganda, electricity generation is mainly through hydropower which put the country in the bottleneck of over dependence on one source of energy. Yet, there are many energy systems out there that country can diversify its electricity generation. Therefore, the need to understand, the level of development and utilization of various energy systems has been the underlying question for this present study. Comprehensive literature survey was conducted from the electronic databases including ScienceDirect, Wiley, Sage, Scopus, Taylor & Francis, and Google Scholar. The publications in form of reports, conference papers, working papers, discussion papers, journal articles, book sections and textbooks were considered in this study. In total, 11 energy systems including human and animal energy, solid biomass (firewood), hydropower, wind, geothermal, solar, nuclear, peat, coal, petroleum, and non-solid biomass (methanol, hydrogen, ethanol, biodiesel, and biogas) are described. The current and the future development and utilization of these energy systems has been described. The challenges with their development and utilization were elaborated and the solution the challenges were presented. The hydropower with River Nile being the main river for large hydropower plant construction is the dominance energy system in Uganda. Nuclear energy will be the salvation for the country’s electric energy supply in the near future. Therefore, Uganda needs to bet big on nuclear energy.

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“…The possible non-linear relationship between different types of environmental regulations and GTFP is tested theoretically and empirically. Taking into account the heterogeneity existing in different regions, this provides a scientific basis for choosing environmental regulatory policy tools that are compatible with regional economic development [ 6 – 8 ].…”

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The impact of environmental regulation on green total factor productivity: An empirical analysis

Han

Wang

2021

PLoS ONE

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The transformation of China’s economy from extensive growth to high-quality development is essentially an increase in green total factor productivity (GTFP). China currently has a range of environmental regulation tools, and the question of whether environmental regulation can promote improvement in China’s GTFP requires theoretical and empirical analysis. This article first divides environmental regulation into three types: administrative, market-based and information-based. It then builds an empirical model of the effect of environmental regulation on GTFP. Slacks based measure-data envelope analysis (SBM-DEA) and the Malmquist index are used to measure the GTFP of 30 provinces in China from 2005 to 2018, and a measurement model of the impact of environmental regulation on GTFP is established. The results show that: (1) there are significant differences in GTFP in eastern, central and western China; (2) there is a non-linear relationship between environmental regulations and GTFP.

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Electricity price and industrial green productivity: Does the “low-electricity price trap” exist?

Cited by 38 publications

References 22 publications

The Impact of Electricity Price on Power-Generation Structure: Evidence From China

The Impact of Electricity Price on Power-Generation Structure: Evidence From China

A Critical Review on the Development and Utilization of Energy Systems in Uganda

The impact of environmental regulation on green total factor productivity: An empirical analysis

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