Is Embodied Energy a Better Starting Point for Solving Energy Security Issues?—Based on an Overview of Embodied Energy-Related Research

Chen, Jinghan; Zhou, Wen; Yang, H. J.

doi:10.3390/su11164260

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“…It is the production and transportation consumed when products and services are transferred from one region to another and the direct and indirect energy consumed by the entire link of the flow of products and services between industries or departments [16,[31][32][33][34][35]. It has the characteristics of comprehensiveness, flowability, separability, and scalability [23]. Its most outstanding value is that it can effectively reflect the actual energy dependence between countries, connecting energy and economical energy with the environment [16,36,37].…”

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“…Embodied energy analysis can integrate historical and offsite formation and thus provide a more systematic perspective of energy use [20]. Moreover, because of its ability to track energy consumption in the economic system, it has become a hot topic in research related to determining the impact of the economy on the environment [21][22][23][24][25][26][27]. By using trade and input-output data between countries, calculating the embodied energy flow between countries can clarify the actual energy dependence between countries [16,19].…”

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“Grouping” or “Ride One’s Coattails”?—How Developing Countries along the Belt and Road Satisfy Themselves

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China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will inevitably affect global energy cooperation. Along the Belt and Road, there are many developing countries. To understand the energy cooperation and development of these countries comprehensively is of great significance to guide their development and evaluate the impact of the BRI on the world energy and economic pattern. However, there is insufficient attention on those countries. Based on embodied energy analysis, a method which can track direct and indirect energy consumption in the economic system, effectively linking energy with the economy and environment, this paper proposes an evolution model of the embodied energy flow of the countries. Then, it simulates the evolution of the embodied energy flow under different cooperation strategies. The results show that if cooperation between countries positively affects their cooperation with other countries, adopting a mixed strategy is an advisable choice. On the contrary, cooperation with “powerful” countries in the network will be more conducive to the embodied energy flow. This article provides a new perspective and foundation for further discussion on the economy, trade, and energy cooperation along the Belt and Road.

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“…However, a key performance index for our indigenous building materials, the EE must be ascertained as an indispensable common denominator for the stimulation. It has become necessary because embodied energy can be used in more fields (identify the linkage effects of policies) and it can provide a new perspective for the study of energy-related issues [57]. Thus, it enables us to analyze energy-related issues from the perspective of the whole supply chain and the whole energy flow network, instead of based on single energy supply or a single stage of energy consumption [58][59].…”

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Issues and perspectives of capacity development in embodied energy indices for building materials sourced in Nigeria: A review

Nwanya¹,

Ononiwu²

2021

Nig. J. Tech.

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Embodied energy (EE) property of building material is a great determinant of the performance of a building. The dearth of information on EE of locally sourced building materials (LSBMs) constitutes a challenge to affordable housing in Nigeria. In this paper, a review of the previous literature, unfilled gaps in those works, and future directions in embodied energy research for LSBMs is presented to evolve a Nigerian perspective. A constructive non-meta analytic methodology was adopted for the paper. This was followed by classification and comparison of snapshot literature in the embodied energy of building materials. Insightful sources of information for the study were drawn from a vast body of knowledge both documented literature and some interviews with knowledgeable personnel in the area of a built environment. From the survey, energy management opportunities were revealed, which would not have been apparent from a specific building case study alone. There are distinctions in the literature with this currentpaper for a Nigerian case study: none have addressed the embodied energy coefficient of materials. Also, the status of embodied energy studies, for these materials, is at a low profile and the few investigations carried out focused on life cycle operating energy of buildings. These research gaps evidently imply abundant research opportunities that await exploitation in the building industry. This paper adds to an existing body of knowledge on the use of EE index to promote and optimize the selection of LSBMs as alternative to imported building materials. We hope engineers, estate developers and architects would find it useful for making an informed decision in the design of resilient buildings using indigenous materials. Keywords: building material, embodied energy, system boundary, capacity, building information modelling, Nigeria.

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“…"Complex network analysis" is also commonly used in embodied energy research (An et al, 2015;Chen and Chen, 2015;Yang et al, 2015;Sun et al, 2016;Chen et al, 2018;Liu et al, 2019;Tang et al, 2019). Chen conducted a comprehensive analysis of the abundance of literature related to embodied energy and concluded that embodied energy can provide a well-integrated perspective on energy consumption and demand, and as embodied energy has been used in academics, issues related to China have been holding a high level of attention (Chen et al, 2019).…”

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Embodied Energy in Export Flows Along Global Value Chain: A Case Study of China’s Export Trade

Zhang

Bai²,

Ning³

2021

Front. Energy Res.

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Energy issues are closely related to the development of human society and economy. Embodied energy is the total direct and indirect energy consumption required for the production of goods and services. In the context of the intensifying development of economic globalization and prosperity of international trade, embodied energy is considered as a better indicator to comprehensively reflect the nature of a country’s energy use than the direct energy use. The development of trade in value added (TiVA) accounting and global value chain theory has brought new ideas to embodied energy research. This study applies TiVA accounting to the study of embodied energy and establishes a complete framework to decompose the sources, destinations, and transfer routes of embodied energy in a country’s exports, and comprehensively depicts the embodied energy flows in China’s exports at the country and sector levels as an instance. The results show that China exports large amounts of embodied domestic energy use, and export is an important factor for the rapid growth of China’s energy and emissions. At the country level, the United States and EU28 are traditional major importers of China, and developing countries, such as Brazil, India, and Indonesia, are emerging markets. China’s embodied energy flows to different importers vary in terms of trade patterns, flow routes, and the embodied domestic energy intensities. At the sector level, the light industry and the services create more benefits, whereas manufacturing, such as chemicals and metal products, consumes more energy, and there is a mismatch between the main sectors that create economic benefits from exports and the main sectors that consume energy for exports. These results indicate that embodied energy of China’s exports has a great impact on global energy consumption and carbon emission, and the optimizing of China’s export embodied energy structure is conducive to global energy conservation and emission reduction. This article strongly suggests the importance of the global value chain decomposition framework in embodied energy research.

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Is Embodied Energy a Better Starting Point for Solving Energy Security Issues?—Based on an Overview of Embodied Energy-Related Research

Cited by 12 publications

References 81 publications

“Grouping” or “Ride One’s Coattails”?—How Developing Countries along the Belt and Road Satisfy Themselves

“Grouping” or “Ride One’s Coattails”?—How Developing Countries along the Belt and Road Satisfy Themselves

Issues and perspectives of capacity development in embodied energy indices for building materials sourced in Nigeria: A review

Embodied Energy in Export Flows Along Global Value Chain: A Case Study of China’s Export Trade

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