This paper uses a macroeconomic approach to develop a long-run electricity demand model to analyze the main factors affecting electricity demand in the Peopleís Republic of China (PRC). As expected, the relationship among variables is more stable and significant after the PRCís economic...

The consecutive rises in the consumption of energy to attain economic growth have accelerated the extraction of natural resources, which have substantiated investments in green technology to pivot sustained economic growth. Therefore, the roles of natural resources (NRs) and renewable energy...

The massive consumption of non-clean energy has brought serious environmental challenges, and how to improve the energy consumption structure has become an important issue for the Chinese government. By incorporating both signaling and regulatory pressure mechanisms into a theoretical framework,...

Expanding distributed energy supply can not only make up for the energy shortage, but also help reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Existing studies often ignore the differences in the spatial distribution of distributed energy. To fill this gap, this article uses the geographically weighted...

In the context of carbon neutrality, guiding consumers’ lifestyles toward the direction of low energy consumption and low pollution is one of the biggest challenges for policymakers. Peer effects can produce social multipliers, which is of great significance to policy formulation and...