Techno-economic analysis of residential building heating strategies for cost-effective upgrades in European cities.

The energy crisis in Europe requires cost-effective evaluations of residential heating strategies to reduce costs and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. This research studied different heating systems in China and Europe. Based on heating energy surveys, simulation models were developed and further expanded for European cities.

Decarbonizing residential buildings in the developing world: Historical cases from China.

China's large residential building stocks lead to the serious effect of operational carbon lock-in, which becomes a major challenge in hitting the carbon peak by 2030. This work is the first to develop the Generalized Divisia Index Method with a matrix of 8 × 14 to identify fourteen factors and analyze the provincial carbon change (especially the decarbonization progress) in residential building operations from 2000 to 2018. It shows that: (1) The operational carbon emissions released by residential buildings increased during 2000-2018, with an average rate of 4.

Carbon Kuznets curve in China's building operations: Retrospective and prospective trajectories.

China has pledged to achieve peak carbon emissions by 2030 and to be carbon neutral by the mid-century, and buildings will be the "last mile" sector in the transition to carbon neutrality. To help buildings hit the carbon peak goal, we investigate the different emission scales of carbon emission changes of residential and commercial building operations across 30 provinces in China through the carbon Kuznets curve (CKC) model. We observe that (1) more than three-quarters of the samples can be fitted by the CKC model.

A hybrid multi-objective optimizer-based model for daily electricity demand prediction considering COVID-19.

Electricity consumption has been affected due to worldwide lockdown policies against COVID-19. Many countries have pointed out that electricity supply security during the epidemic is critical to ensuring people's livelihood. Accurate prediction of electricity demand would act a more important role in ensuring energy security for all the countries.

Decoupling or delusion? Mapping carbon emission per capita based on the human development index in Southwest China.

Reducing energy-related carbon emissions has become the essential measure to mitigate global climate change. Based on decoupling analyses and index decomposition, this study is the first to explore whether carbon emission per capita decouples from the human development index from 2000 to 2015 at the provincial level in Southwest China [Chongqing (CQ), Sichuan (SC), Guizhou (GZ), and Yunnan (YN)]. We demonstrate the following.

Driving forces of China's CO emissions from energy consumption based on Kaya-LMDI methods.

Anthropogenic carbon emission gives rise to a situation where global warming is becoming serious. China is paying for reducing carbon emissions. The concept of carbon curse suggests that countries rich in fossil fuels tend to be closely linked to high carbon emissions, but this is not absolute, which reminds policymakers that the policies implemented are positivelycorrelateswith carbon emission reduction.

Carbon dioxide intensity and income level in the Chinese megacities' residential building sector: Decomposition and decoupling analyses.

Carbon dioxide (CO) caused by residential building sector is essential for China to achieve its 2030 carbon emission peak. As the indicator to control the total CO emissions, CO intensity feature should be preferentially analyzed. Through the decomposition and decoupling approaches, this paper is the first to investigate whether CO intensity decouples from the income level in residential building sector of China and its four megacities [Beijing (BJ), Tianjin (TJ), Shanghai (SH), and Chongqing (CQ)] from 2000 to 2016.

Promoting sustainability of manufacturing industry through the lean energy-saving and emission-reduction strategy.

The energy-saving and emission reduction (ESER) strategy is a crucial measure for promoting the sustainability of manufacturing industry in green transition. Analyzing current practices and limitations of the ESER in the manufacturing industry, this paper proposes a new concept entitled lean energy-saving and emission-reduction (LESER) and an approach to effectively improve the energy efficiency and reduce waste emissions. This paper illustrates the definition of the LESER and establishes an implementation framework for LESER to improve the manufacturing process.

Do commercial building sector-derived carbon emissions decouple from the economic growth in Tertiary Industry? A case study of four municipalities in China.

Decoupling economic development from carbon emissions generated from China's commercial buildings (CECCB) is regarded as an important indicator for evaluating the energy efficiency of the commercial building sector in China. Our study is the first to propose a decoupling method based on a Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) decomposition analysis with the Kaya identity to analyze the relationship between economic development in China's Tertiary Industry and the CECCB growth at both national and municipal levels. The following three main results are found.

China Act on the Energy Efficiency of Civil Buildings (2008): A decade review.

China has launched the energy efficiency project (EEP) for its civil building sector beginning in the mid-1980s; however, its implementation has not been effective. To better promote the EEP for the Chinese civil building sector, the Chinese government issued the China Act on the Energy Efficiency of Civil Buildings in 2008. This is the first paper to present a review of this act's implementation over the past decade.