An Econometric Analysis of Building Energy Consumption in China

Author

Cheng, Min ; Shi, Xiajun

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage., Shanghai Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2009

fDate

20-22 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

In recent years, China´s rapid urbanization has caused a tremendous rise of the building energy consumption (BEC), which accounts for a large share of total energy consumption. It´s well known that economic growth and energy consumption are closely related. In this paper, we present an empirical analysis of BEC and its impact factors in the term of econometrics, from the data in 1980-2007. The results show that as an important indicator of economic structure and living standards, BEC is and will encounter continuous increase in China. More effort should be put in energy savings and slowing down the growth of BEC.

Keywords

building; energy consumption; power system economics; China; building energy consumption; econometric analysis; economic growth; energy savings; time 1980 year to 2007 year; Buildings; Econometrics; Economic indicators; Energy conservation; Energy consumption; Energy management; Environmental economics; Heating; Power generation economics; Standards development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management and Service Science, 2009. MASS '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4638-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4639-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSS.2009.5301054

Filename

5301054