S Copiello - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
The literature dealing with building energy efficiency has long since debated about the possible occurrence of the so-called Jevons' paradox. In a nutshell, benefiting from energy …
150 years ago, Stanley Jevons introduced the concept of energy rebound: that anticipated energy efficiency savings may be “taken back” by behavioural responses. This is an …
The relationship between greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and economic growth has been intensively analysed. The literature criticizing Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) …
B Lin, Y Chen, G Zhang - Energy Policy, 2017 - Elsevier
As one of China's mainstay and six major energy-intensive industries, the nonferrous metals industry faces the intense contradiction between economic growth and energy & …
Energy resource depletion and environmental degradation have become big challenges for China's sustainable development. Energy efficiency improvement is usually regarded as an …
Y Hu, H Cheng - Nature Communications, 2017 - nature.com
China has invested heavily on alternative energy, but the effectiveness of such energy sources at substituting the dominant coal-fired generation remains unknown. Here we …
Capital–labour–energy Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) production functions and their estimated parameters now form a key part of energy–economy models which inform …
Understanding the energy demand of cities is a challenge especially in countries such as Brazil where the lack of building energy consumption benchmarks makes it hard to decide …
Abstract Energy Saving Performance Contracts (ESPCs) are a business model that aims to promote building energy efficiency through retrofitting with minimal or zero upfront costs for …