Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2024.101582
Magda I. El-Afifi , Bishoy E. Sedhom , Abdelfattah A. Eladl , Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban
The combination of energy hubs with advanced information and communication technology has resulted in the creation of an intelligent system referred to as a smart energy hub (SEH). The implementation of the SEH has facilitated the enhancement of the entire energy distribution system by enabling a two-way exchange of energy and information between utility providers and consumers. This has resulted in a system that is secure, efficient, and dependable. The significance and visibility of big data in the SEH are evident as a result of the growing accumulation of data quantities. A wide range of equipment and software work together to collect and use energy data. This includes tools used by both energy providers and customers, like smart meters, software for billing, and various monitoring and control systems. Additionally, sensors, computers, and communication networks play a crucial role in collecting and transmitting this data across the energy grid. Hence, big data plays a crucial role in the development of an enhanced SEH. This paper presents an introduction to the notion of SEH and its associated concepts, as well as the function of big data in the context of SEH. It also discusses the obstacles that big data encounters in the SEH domain and explores the potential opportunities that big data offers for SEH.
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With China's agricultural sector being a major contributor to both the national economy and energy consumption, the rebound effect—the phenomenon where energy efficiency improvements lead to increased energy use—poses significant challenges to sustainable energy use. The motivation for this study stems from the need to understand the extent of this rebound impact and its underlying drivers, particularly in the context of China's agricultural modernization efforts. This study examines the rebound effect of energy consumption in China's agricultural productivity and the factors influencing it over the period from 1990 to 2023. Using a Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) model, this research analyzes the relationship between energy consumption, agricultural productivity, and several influencing factors, including technological innovation, rural-urban migration, and financial development. The results reveal that (1) energy efficiency improvements have led to a significant rebound effect in China's agricultural sector, limiting potential energy savings, (2) technological advancements have mitigated the rebound effect to some extent, but the effect remains substantial, (3) rural-urban migration has contributed to labor shortages, increasing mechanization and energy demand, and (4) financial development has positively influenced both agricultural productivity and energy use, exacerbating the rebound effect. The study suggests that policymakers should focus on developing stricter energy efficiency standards and promoting technological innovations that reduce energy intensity in agriculture, while also addressing labor migration challenges to curb the rebound impact and achieve more sustainable agricultural growth.
{"title":"An analysis of the rebound impact of energy consumption and the factors that influence it in China's agricultural productivity","authors":"Yanyan Yin , Fatima Gulzar , Zokir Mamadiyarov , Assilova Aizhan , Ravi Shankar Yadav , Chang Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.esr.2024.101585","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esr.2024.101585","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With China's agricultural sector being a major contributor to both the national economy and energy consumption, the rebound effect—the phenomenon where energy efficiency improvements lead to increased energy use—poses significant challenges to sustainable energy use. The motivation for this study stems from the need to understand the extent of this rebound impact and its underlying drivers, particularly in the context of China's agricultural modernization efforts. This study examines the rebound effect of energy consumption in China's agricultural productivity and the factors influencing it over the period from 1990 to 2023. Using a Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) model, this research analyzes the relationship between energy consumption, agricultural productivity, and several influencing factors, including technological innovation, rural-urban migration, and financial development. The results reveal that (1) energy efficiency improvements have led to a significant rebound effect in China's agricultural sector, limiting potential energy savings, (2) technological advancements have mitigated the rebound effect to some extent, but the effect remains substantial, (3) rural-urban migration has contributed to labor shortages, increasing mechanization and energy demand, and (4) financial development has positively influenced both agricultural productivity and energy use, exacerbating the rebound effect. The study suggests that policymakers should focus on developing stricter energy efficiency standards and promoting technological innovations that reduce energy intensity in agriculture, while also addressing labor migration challenges to curb the rebound impact and achieve more sustainable agricultural growth.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11546,"journal":{"name":"Energy Strategy Reviews","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101585"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142593856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2024.101569
Katharina Esterl , Carlos Andrés Epia Realpe , Ulf Philipp Müller
The ongoing transformation towards a sector-coupled energy system based on renewable generation leads to more complex grid-based energy system models. It is a crucial task to reduce the models’ complexities in order to keep optimisation problems tractable while at the same time generating appropriate results. This work adds a Dijkstra’s algorithm to a commonly used k-means Clustering method to reduce the spatial complexity of a German transmission and sub-transmission grid model. The novel approach leads to more accurate results while reaching faster calculation times. In particular, it successfully avoids false inter-zonal meshing. Consequently, the more accurate modelling of inter-cluster connections results in up to 41% higher grid expansion needs and significantly changed spatial allocations of network and storage expansion. Where geographical or political borders (e.g. the former inner-German border) have led to scarcely interconnected grid topologies (especially on the sub-transmission grid level), the impact is particularly high. The presented work follows open-source and open-data principles.
{"title":"Avoiding false inter-zonal meshing in the clustering of a large-scale German power grid","authors":"Katharina Esterl , Carlos Andrés Epia Realpe , Ulf Philipp Müller","doi":"10.1016/j.esr.2024.101569","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esr.2024.101569","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The ongoing transformation towards a sector-coupled energy system based on renewable generation leads to more complex grid-based energy system models. It is a crucial task to reduce the models’ complexities in order to keep optimisation problems tractable while at the same time generating appropriate results. This work adds a <em>Dijkstra’s algorithm</em> to a commonly used <em>k-means Clustering</em> method to reduce the spatial complexity of a German transmission and sub-transmission grid model. The novel approach leads to more accurate results while reaching faster calculation times. In particular, it successfully avoids false inter-zonal meshing. Consequently, the more accurate modelling of inter-cluster connections results in up to 41% higher grid expansion needs and significantly changed spatial allocations of network and storage expansion. Where geographical or political borders (e.g. the former inner-German border) have led to scarcely interconnected grid topologies (especially on the sub-transmission grid level), the impact is particularly high. The presented work follows open-source and open-data principles.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11546,"journal":{"name":"Energy Strategy Reviews","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101569"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142655395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2024.101587
Muhammad Khalid Anser , Sajid Ali , Muhammad Umair , Rubab Javid , Sanjar Mirzaliev
The growing interdependence between environmental resources, financial development, technological advancements, and energy consumption poses significant challenges for sustainable growth in emerging economies. This study investigates these dynamics in the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) from 1990 to 2023 using the GMM panel VAR framework, with the aim of understanding how these factors interact and shape economic outcomes. The analysis shows that environmental rents positively impact financial growth, countering the traditional "resource curse" belief. Technological innovation is negatively linked to both economic growth and environmental sustainability, while energy consumption is positively correlated with economic growth and exhibits a weak correlation with the environment. Furthermore, primary energy consumption is strongly connected to resource utilization and financial growth, although technological advancements negatively affect this relationship. Causality tests reveal mutual influences between energy consumption and technological innovation, alongside unidirectional effects of natural resources on financial and technological growth. Policy implications underscore the need for BRICS nations to balance resource management and technological progress to foster sustainable economic and environmental development.
{"title":"Energy consumption, technological innovation, and economic growth in BRICS: A GMM panel VAR framework analysis","authors":"Muhammad Khalid Anser , Sajid Ali , Muhammad Umair , Rubab Javid , Sanjar Mirzaliev","doi":"10.1016/j.esr.2024.101587","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esr.2024.101587","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The growing interdependence between environmental resources, financial development, technological advancements, and energy consumption poses significant challenges for sustainable growth in emerging economies. This study investigates these dynamics in the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) from 1990 to 2023 using the GMM panel VAR framework, with the aim of understanding how these factors interact and shape economic outcomes. The analysis shows that environmental rents positively impact financial growth, countering the traditional \"resource curse\" belief. Technological innovation is negatively linked to both economic growth and environmental sustainability, while energy consumption is positively correlated with economic growth and exhibits a weak correlation with the environment. Furthermore, primary energy consumption is strongly connected to resource utilization and financial growth, although technological advancements negatively affect this relationship. Causality tests reveal mutual influences between energy consumption and technological innovation, alongside unidirectional effects of natural resources on financial and technological growth. Policy implications underscore the need for BRICS nations to balance resource management and technological progress to foster sustainable economic and environmental development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11546,"journal":{"name":"Energy Strategy Reviews","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101587"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142655485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2024.101576
Guangwei Zhang, Muhammad Yousaf Raza, Li Dong-sheng
The study detects and analyzes the driving factors underlying the CO2 emission variations in the transport sector of Bangladesh, including the carbon coefficient, fossil fuel ratio, energy use per unit turnover, turnover per unit of transport value-added, and value-added of transport from 2003 to 2021. The objective is to analyze the transportation (i.e., land, water and air) factor's effects under the logarithmic mean Divisia index, Tapio index, CO2 mitigation potential methods, and their decouplings. The results show that: (i) value-added was the main CO2 driving factor, while CO2 coefficient, fuel substitution, energy use, and turnover value mitigated CO2 emissions. (ii) Land and water transport seemed to be the main CO2 producers and meaningfully contributed to the economy. (iii) Only two decoupling states─weak decoupling and strong decoupling appeared, in which economic growth was the significant turn towards the best state. (iv) Sub-transportation presented significant and strong decouplings in the maximum intervals. (iv) The carbon mitigation rate was observed at 0.26 % during the period in which the economic structural factor was the main factor contributing to declining CO2 emissions. Finally, the study proposes frameworks that will support policymakers in estimating energy and technological policies for climate and economic sustainability.
{"title":"Carbon footprint valuation of Bangladesh transportation under environmental regulations","authors":"Guangwei Zhang, Muhammad Yousaf Raza, Li Dong-sheng","doi":"10.1016/j.esr.2024.101576","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esr.2024.101576","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The study detects and analyzes the driving factors underlying the CO<sub>2</sub> emission variations in the transport sector of Bangladesh, including the carbon coefficient, fossil fuel ratio, energy use per unit turnover, turnover per unit of transport value-added, and value-added of transport from 2003 to 2021. The objective is to analyze the transportation (i.e., land, water and air) factor's effects under the logarithmic mean Divisia index, Tapio index, CO<sub>2</sub> mitigation potential methods, and their decouplings. The results show that: (i) value-added was the main CO<sub>2</sub> driving factor, while CO<sub>2</sub> coefficient, fuel substitution, energy use, and turnover value mitigated CO<sub>2</sub> emissions. (ii) Land and water transport seemed to be the main CO<sub>2</sub> producers and meaningfully contributed to the economy. (iii) Only two decoupling states─weak decoupling and strong decoupling appeared, in which economic growth was the significant turn towards the best state. (iv) Sub-transportation presented significant and strong decouplings in the maximum intervals. (iv) The carbon mitigation rate was observed at 0.26 % during the period in which the economic structural factor was the main factor contributing to declining CO<sub>2</sub> emissions. Finally, the study proposes frameworks that will support policymakers in estimating energy and technological policies for climate and economic sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11546,"journal":{"name":"Energy Strategy Reviews","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101576"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142593855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2024.101602
Um-e-Habiba , Ijaz Ahmed , Mohammed Alqahtani , Muhammad Asif , Muhammad Khalid
Technology is essential in creating sustainable cities. Home automation is a branch of Internet of Things (IoT)-based automation, enhancing our lifestyle by automating everyday tasks. People are currently incorporating this concept to create intelligent cities. Smart home (SH) automation has employed a variety of methods and procedures. In order to optimize the system’s performance, it is crucial to gain a thorough understanding of it. This study investigates into the ways that the implementation of SH automation can aid in the development of sustainable cities by examining various approaches. This study examines into the ways in which technology can tackle the technical hurdles of handling large volumes of data and improving a city’s overall efficiency. Furthermore, the review explores innovative technological concepts that have the potential to enhance the intelligence of cities. These findings offer valuable insights for policymakers, legislators, academic scholars, and technologists in shaping future research directions and enhancing these technologies for the betterment of humanity and the development of sustainability.
{"title":"The role of energy management technologies for cyber resilient smart homes in sustainable urban development","authors":"Um-e-Habiba , Ijaz Ahmed , Mohammed Alqahtani , Muhammad Asif , Muhammad Khalid","doi":"10.1016/j.esr.2024.101602","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esr.2024.101602","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Technology is essential in creating sustainable cities. Home automation is a branch of Internet of Things (IoT)-based automation, enhancing our lifestyle by automating everyday tasks. People are currently incorporating this concept to create intelligent cities. Smart home (SH) automation has employed a variety of methods and procedures. In order to optimize the system’s performance, it is crucial to gain a thorough understanding of it. This study investigates into the ways that the implementation of SH automation can aid in the development of sustainable cities by examining various approaches. This study examines into the ways in which technology can tackle the technical hurdles of handling large volumes of data and improving a city’s overall efficiency. Furthermore, the review explores innovative technological concepts that have the potential to enhance the intelligence of cities. These findings offer valuable insights for policymakers, legislators, academic scholars, and technologists in shaping future research directions and enhancing these technologies for the betterment of humanity and the development of sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11546,"journal":{"name":"Energy Strategy Reviews","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101602"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143104930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2024.101572
Shijiao Zhao , Xinwen Zhang , Muhammad Kamran
Researching the long-term effects of technology on ecological sustainability and economic growth is a hot topic. Recently published studies clarify the complex interplay between financial elements, climate technology, green energy, and other technical advances exacerbating China's dire environmental situation. This extensive study highlights the complex nature of these elements by shedding light on their direct and indirect effects on the environment. It uses the A.R.D.L model and covers the years 1992–2024. The research shows that financial inclusion influences environmental degradation in two ways: directly and indirectly. This is because it is linked to green energy. The study confirms what many have suspected, directly and indirectly, is that green energy contributes to environmental degradation through its interactions with climate technologies. The study found that climate technology in China might unintentionally harm environmental quality, even though the developers have good intentions, revealing that economic expansion initially worsens environmental deterioration before leveling off or even decreasing. Having plans that encourage sustainable development without compromising ecological protections is crucial, as shown by the outcomes. In addition to demonstrating the strong correlation between technological advancement and environmental consequences, the study's Granger causality test uncovered a virtuous cycle wherein monetary gains lead to ecological degradation.
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Although gender inequality has been examined and debated as one of the most prominent challenges within the scientific community, relatively little attention has been paid to gender differences with regard to authorship. The aim of this paper is to identify whether gender differences exist with respect to the impact factors of the journals in which male and female authors publish their research. Existing studies use machine-assisted tools to determine author gender. Given the limitations of this type of approach to data collection and coding, we opted for a manual approach that ensured both the inclusion of a high number of journals and greater precision in determining author gender. This paper focuses on authors who published articles on a concrete area of research (energy) in a specific region (Central and Eastern Europe) over a 14-year period (2004–2017). Our study identified a gender bias within energy-related research: male authors (or male-dominated teams) publish more often and on average in journals with higher impact factors than female authors.
{"title":"Gender and authorship in energy studies: Is there an impact?","authors":"Péter Vakhal , Kateryna Yakovenko , Matúš Mišík , Veronika Oravcová , Raffaele Mattera","doi":"10.1016/j.esr.2024.101581","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esr.2024.101581","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although gender inequality has been examined and debated as one of the most prominent challenges within the scientific community, relatively little attention has been paid to gender differences with regard to authorship. The aim of this paper is to identify whether gender differences exist with respect to the impact factors of the journals in which male and female authors publish their research. Existing studies use machine-assisted tools to determine author gender. Given the limitations of this type of approach to data collection and coding, we opted for a manual approach that ensured both the inclusion of a high number of journals and greater precision in determining author gender. This paper focuses on authors who published articles on a concrete area of research (energy) in a specific region (Central and Eastern Europe) over a 14-year period (2004–2017). Our study identified a gender bias within energy-related research: male authors (or male-dominated teams) publish more often and on average in journals with higher impact factors than female authors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11546,"journal":{"name":"Energy Strategy Reviews","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101581"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142655400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2024.101589
Benjamin Lux , Miriam Frömel , Gustav Resch , Florian Hasengst , Frank Sensfuß
Today, most hydrogen production is based on natural gas and occurs locally at the demand sites. However, according to many studies, hydrogen generation will shift to greenhouse gas (GHG)-neutral sources and supply, substantially increasing demands to meet ambitious climate protection targets in the European Union. Therefore, the model-based analysis in this paper addresses where hydrogen will come from in a GHG-neutral target system. A scenario study examines different expansion paths of renewable energy generation technologies and variations in European cooperation regarding energy trading. The model results show that a domestic European hydrogen supply strategy is cost-efficient. This result is robust even with higher self-sufficiency shares of individual countries. However, delayed or restricted expansions of renewable electricity generation technologies lead to increased hydrogen demands for power generation and increased pipeline-bound hydrogen imports in winter from the Middle East and North Africa in the model results. Furthermore, scenarios with higher photovoltaic shares exhibit increased demand for hydrogen storage for seasonal energy supply and demand balancing and increased hydrogen demands for power generation. A cost-efficient hydrogen supply strategy should, therefore, particularly focus on the expansion of onshore wind energy and hydrogen supply technologies in Europe and strengthen European cooperation for energy supply infrastructures.
{"title":"Effects of different renewable electricity diffusion paths and restricted european cooperation on Europe's hydrogen supply","authors":"Benjamin Lux , Miriam Frömel , Gustav Resch , Florian Hasengst , Frank Sensfuß","doi":"10.1016/j.esr.2024.101589","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esr.2024.101589","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Today, most hydrogen production is based on natural gas and occurs locally at the demand sites. However, according to many studies, hydrogen generation will shift to greenhouse gas (GHG)-neutral sources and supply, substantially increasing demands to meet ambitious climate protection targets in the European Union. Therefore, the model-based analysis in this paper addresses where hydrogen will come from in a GHG-neutral target system. A scenario study examines different expansion paths of renewable energy generation technologies and variations in European cooperation regarding energy trading. The model results show that a domestic European hydrogen supply strategy is cost-efficient. This result is robust even with higher self-sufficiency shares of individual countries. However, delayed or restricted expansions of renewable electricity generation technologies lead to increased hydrogen demands for power generation and increased pipeline-bound hydrogen imports in winter from the Middle East and North Africa in the model results. Furthermore, scenarios with higher photovoltaic shares exhibit increased demand for hydrogen storage for seasonal energy supply and demand balancing and increased hydrogen demands for power generation. A cost-efficient hydrogen supply strategy should, therefore, particularly focus on the expansion of onshore wind energy and hydrogen supply technologies in Europe and strengthen European cooperation for energy supply infrastructures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11546,"journal":{"name":"Energy Strategy Reviews","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101589"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142655398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2024.101593
Peng Zhang , Yuye Xiao , Shah zaib , Nasir khan
In 2022, emitting 4.8 billion metric tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2), the United States ranked as the global second-biggest polluter. In order to address this, the US has set a specific target of reducing net carbon dioxide emissions by 50–52 % from the peak of 2006 by 2030. For this reason, identifying the most important elements that will help achieve the SDGs is of the utmost importance. This study looked at how the relationships between green energy transitions (ET), ecological innovation (EI), economic policy uncertainty (EPU), energy consumption (EU), economic growth (EG), and sectoral CO₂ emissions changed from 1982 to 2022. It used advanced Quantile-on-Quantile Regression (QQR) and Quantiles Granger Causality test (QGC). The result highlights a positive correlation between overall sectoral CO2 quantiles and ET quantiles. In the lowest to upper quantiles, EI and sectoral CO2 are slightly positive; however, in the 0.2–0.95 quantiles, the rising slope values demonstrate that EPU affects SCO2. In a similar vein, sectoral CO2 and energy consumption exhibited mixed results across quantiles, while the QQR slope values for sectoral CO2 and economic growth exhibited mixed results throughout quantiles as well. It is crucial to make investments in ET and ecological innovation in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals-7 by 2030. This will reduce EPU and ensure that all sectors have access to energy.
{"title":"The impact of economic policy uncertainty, renewable energy adoption, and eco-innovation on sectoral CO₂ emissions in the United States","authors":"Peng Zhang , Yuye Xiao , Shah zaib , Nasir khan","doi":"10.1016/j.esr.2024.101593","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esr.2024.101593","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In 2022, emitting 4.8 billion metric tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2), the United States ranked as the global second-biggest polluter. In order to address this, the US has set a specific target of reducing net carbon dioxide emissions by 50–52 % from the peak of 2006 by 2030. For this reason, identifying the most important elements that will help achieve the SDGs is of the utmost importance. This study looked at how the relationships between green energy transitions (ET), ecological innovation (EI), economic policy uncertainty (EPU), energy consumption (EU), economic growth (EG), and sectoral CO₂ emissions changed from 1982 to 2022. It used advanced Quantile-on-Quantile Regression (QQR) and Quantiles Granger Causality test (QGC). The result highlights a positive correlation between overall sectoral CO2 quantiles and ET quantiles. In the lowest to upper quantiles, EI and sectoral CO2 are slightly positive; however, in the 0.2–0.95 quantiles, the rising slope values demonstrate that EPU affects SCO2. In a similar vein, sectoral CO2 and energy consumption exhibited mixed results across quantiles, while the QQR slope values for sectoral CO2 and economic growth exhibited mixed results throughout quantiles as well. It is crucial to make investments in ET and ecological innovation in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals-7 by 2030. This will reduce EPU and ensure that all sectors have access to energy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11546,"journal":{"name":"Energy Strategy Reviews","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101593"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142655399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}