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Economics
Felipe Freitas da Rocha, Edmar Luiz Fagundes de Almeida
Summary: The article explores the rebound effect and backfire generated by energy efficiency improvements, expanding on Wei's (2010) model. It highlights the importance of energy supply and multiple energy services in influencing the rebound effect, as well as the potential for backfire from neutral technical changes.
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Energy & Fuels
Hao Liu, Yixin Ren, Ning Wang
Summary: Economic growth relies on growth in energy consumption, which has led to carbon emissions. The study found rebound effects in energy intensity at both industry and enterprise levels, with a significant difference due to variations in energy consumption statistics. Therefore, it is suggested that coal consumption as raw material should not be defined as energy consumption at the enterprise level, and recommendations for energy efficiency improvements are provided based on practical evidence.
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Thermodynamics
Zhen Yuan, Jie Xu, Bing Li, Tingting Yao
Summary: As issues surrounding the environment and energy security continue to worsen, China has been increasing investment in technological research and industrial development to control energy consumption. This study assessed the relationship between heterogeneous technological progress rates and energy productivity in China's industrial sector from 2001 to 2017. It also analyzed the energy rebound effect using elasticity analysis. The findings show that there is a significant energy rebound effect in China's industrial sector, which varies regionally across the eastern, central, and western regions. Additionally, there is an increasing variation over time in the energy rebound effect, indicating an imbalanced developmental pattern in China's industrial development. The study provides possible explanations and policy recommendations related to energy market reforms and environmental regulations.
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Development Studies
Fakhri J. Hasanov, Zeeshan Khan, Muzzammil Hussain, Muhammad Tufail
Summary: This study develops a theoretical framework to quantify the impacts of technological progress, renewable energy consumption, and international trade on carbon emissions. The framework is applied to BRICS countries' data, considering panel data integration, co-integration, cross-country interdependence, and heterogeneity. The study reveals that technological progress and renewable energy consumption contribute to reduced CO2 emissions, while GDP and import size increase pollution. Policy recommendations include fostering technological enhancements and transitioning toward sustainable energy.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2021)
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Thermodynamics
Chuanwang Sun, Zhilong Chen, Zhiru Guo, Huixin Wu
Summary: China's rapid economic development has resulted in excessive energy consumption and the emergence of energy rebound effect. This paper examines the energy rebound effect in various industries in China and finds that the indirect rebound effect is higher than the direct rebound effect in most sectors. The study also reveals a correlation between energy efficiency, industry forward linkage degree, and the energy rebound effect.
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Environmental Sciences
Gan Liu, Yating Xie, Sanyu Wan
Summary: This paper considers the saving and rebound effect of technological progress from the perspective of regime switching, and empirically analyzes energy consumption changes in Zhejiang Province from 1990 to 2019 using the MSIH-VAR model. The results show that technological progress restricts the growth of energy consumption and exhibits different attributes in two regimes. Technological progress in regime 1 positively promotes the increase of energy consumption, while in regime 2 decreases energy consumption. The saving effect has stage or lag under different regimes.
POLISH JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
(2023)
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Thermodynamics
Hua-Rong Peng, Yue-Jun Zhang, Jing-Yue Liu
Summary: This study examines the impact of digital development on electricity consumption in Chinese cities and evaluates the energy rebound effect triggered by digital development. The results show that digital development leads to an increase in electricity consumption in Chinese cities and has varying effects in different regions. The study highlights the importance of attention to the digital rebound effect and low-carbon digital development.
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Thermodynamics
Zhijie Jia, Boqiang Lin
Summary: This paper innovatively divides the emission mitigation effect of technological progress into different types and simulates the effects of technological progress in the power sector using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model. The results show that there is a trade-off between emission reduction, economic growth, and social welfare due to the rebound effect. Price regulation in the power sector can reduce the rebound effect as well as economic growth and social welfare. The study also finds that technological progress can affect economic indicators through commodity and factor markets.
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Energy & Fuels
Jose M. Cansino, Manuel Ordonez, Manuela Prieto
Summary: This study uses Structural Decomposition Analysis to investigate the rebound effect, finding the total rebound effect caused by energy efficiency improvements in Spain from 2000 to 2014, as well as the direct, indirect, and economy-wide rebound effects. The results show that the rebound effect varies among different sectors and economic scopes.
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Economics
Erdal Aydin, Dirk Brounen, Ahmet Erguen
Summary: Households adopt solar panels mainly to reduce electricity bills, but the near zero marginal cost of solar power may lead to rebound effects that alter households' demand curve and distort the net effects of solar PV investments. Our analysis of high frequency data on household electricity consumption and production reveals a robust solar PV rebound effect of 7.7%, which is consistent across different sample and model specifications. We also observe that households shift their consumption to periods of higher solar electricity production. The solar PV rebound effect varies with time and production level, with larger rebound effects during seasons with higher solar irradiance.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Hua-Rong Peng, Yue-Jun Zhang, Jing-Yue Liu
Summary: This study examines the impact of digital development on electricity consumption in Chinese cities and finds that it has a positive influence, particularly in eastern, high-income, and high-tertiary industry share regions. However, digital development also triggers a rebound effect in electricity consumption, especially in the early stages. The results emphasize the importance of addressing the digital rebound effect and promoting low-carbon digital development.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
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Thermodynamics
Junbing Huang, Shiqi Xiang, Panling Wu, Xiang Chen
Summary: The study found that technological progress alone cannot effectively reduce energy consumption. However, after decomposing technological progress into efficiency and technical change, only the direct spillover effect of efficiency change is significant in reducing energy consumption, particularly the direct effect of pure efficiency change.
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Economics
Tomas Balezentis, Mindaugas Butkus, Dalia Streimikiene, Zhiyang Shen
Summary: This paper proposes an econometric approach for estimating the rebound effect based on the ODEX index and analyzes the rebound effect in EU member states from 2000 to 2015, showing substantial spatial variations in the results.
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Economics
Qiang Du, Xiao Han, Yi Li, Zhe Li, Bo Xia, Xiqian Guo
Summary: This study measures the direct rebound effect of residential buildings in urban and rural China using the LA-AIDS model, finding that the anticipated energy savings are not fully achieved, especially in rural areas where a significant back-fire effect exists. The study suggests the need for more targeted policies to address energy efficiency in residential buildings, such as education programs for urban residents and clean energy projects for rural residents.
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Environmental Sciences
Huihui Xia, Lei Ding, Shuwang Yang
Summary: The study found that economic effects are the main reason for haze pollution, while technological progress plays a key role in controlling haze pollution. The secondary industry is the main driving force for emission reduction, with spatial distribution differences. China's rebound effect of haze pollution shows high-level fluctuations, but regional differences are gradually converging due to the convergence of technological development stages.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)