TY - JOUR
T1 - Impacts of heat metering and efficiency retrofit policy on residential energy consumption in China
AU - Filippini, Massimo
AU - Zhang, Lin
PY - 2019/4
Y1 - 2019/4
N2 - China’s 11th Five-Year Plan introduced various policy instruments to address carbon mitigation; however, the ex-post-policy impacts need to be investigated in a scientific and systematic way to guide future policy design. In this paper, we estimate the impacts of the heat metering and energy efficiency retrofitting policy (HMEER) on residential energy consumption in Chinese provinces using a difference-in-differences approach. Our results suggest that the HMEER policy reduces energy consumption in the treated regions by 10% per year on average, with an annual reduction in CO2 of approximately 50 Mt. We conclude that the HMEER policy contributes to household energy conservation.
AB - China’s 11th Five-Year Plan introduced various policy instruments to address carbon mitigation; however, the ex-post-policy impacts need to be investigated in a scientific and systematic way to guide future policy design. In this paper, we estimate the impacts of the heat metering and energy efficiency retrofitting policy (HMEER) on residential energy consumption in Chinese provinces using a difference-in-differences approach. Our results suggest that the HMEER policy reduces energy consumption in the treated regions by 10% per year on average, with an annual reduction in CO2 of approximately 50 Mt. We conclude that the HMEER policy contributes to household energy conservation.
KW - Chinese residential sector
KW - Difference-in-differences
KW - Energy consumption
KW - Heat metering and energy efficiency retrofit
KW - Policy evaluation
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U2 - 10.1007/s10018-018-0227-8
DO - 10.1007/s10018-018-0227-8
M3 - RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal
SN - 1432-847X
VL - 21
SP - 203
EP - 216
JO - Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
JF - Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
IS - 2
ER -
