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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Environ. Sci.
Sec. Environmental Economics and Management
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2024.1499235
This article is part of the Research Topic Climate Risk and Green and Low-Carbon Transformation: Economic Impact and Policy Response View all 4 articles

Local Government Intervention and Energy Utilization Efficiency: Evidence from China's NEDC Policy

Provisionally accepted
Saijun Wu Saijun Wu 1Tianhong Jiang Tianhong Jiang 2*Min Hong Min Hong 1
  • 1 Hunan Institute of Technology, Hengyang, China
  • 2 Wenzhou Institute of Technology, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

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    Improving energy utilization efficiency is an essential way to save energy and reduce emissions. This article collects data from 3164 samples in China and uses the SBM-DEA method to calculate energy utilization efficiency. Then, we construct the DID model based on China's New-Energy-Demonstration-City (NEDC) policy to test the impacts of local government intervention on energy utilization efficiency (EUE). The following conclusions can be drawn.Firstly, the NEDC policy can still significantly improve EUE. Secondly, heterogeneity analysis shows that the NEDC policy is beneficial for enhancing urban EUE, whether for traditional industrial bases or non-traditional industrial bases. The impact on non-traditional industrial bases is greater. The NEDC policy can significantly promote EUE in the eastern cities and high economic development areas. In contrast, its impact on EUE in the central and western cities or low economic development areas is insignificant. Finally, mechanism analysis shows that NEDC policy can promote energy utilization efficiency through industrial structure adjustment and green innovation.

    Keywords: The NEDC Policy, Energy utilization efficiency, Industrial structure adjustment, Local government intervention, green innovation

    Received: 20 Sep 2024; Accepted: 25 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Wu, Jiang and Hong. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Tianhong Jiang, Wenzhou Institute of Technology, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

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