Open Access Open Access  Restricted Access Subscription or Fee Access

Model and Analysis of the current situation of energy structure and consumption: Evidence from Zhejiang Province

Songyan Zhang

Abstract



Taking Zhejiang Province as an example, this paper using statistical data of 1990-2012 makes a statistical analysis of energy consumption and an empirical research on the relationship between economic growth and energy structure, energy consumption. The result shows the relationship between economic growth and energy structure, energy consumption in Zhejiang Province is long balanced. There is a two-way causation between economic growth and energy structure, and a
two-way causal relationship between economic growth and energy consumption, namely, GDP grows by 0.7343% when energy structure grows by 1%,and GDP grows by 0.3223% when energy consumption grows by 1%.Further, we give some suggestions on energy structure and energy consumption in Zhejiang Province.

Keywords


Economic development, energy consumption, energy structure

Full Text:

PDF


Disclaimer/Regarding indexing issue:

We have provided the online access of all issues and papers to the indexing agencies (as given on journal web site). It’s depend on indexing agencies when, how and what manner they can index or not. Hence, we like to inform that on the basis of earlier indexing, we can’t predict the today or future indexing policy of third party (i.e. indexing agencies) as they have right to discontinue any journal at any time without prior information to the journal. So, please neither sends any question nor expects any answer from us on the behalf of third party i.e. indexing agencies.Hence, we will not issue any certificate or letter for indexing issue. Our role is just to provide the online access to them. So we do properly this and one can visit indexing agencies website to get the authentic information. Also: DOI is paid service which provided by a third party. We never mentioned that we go for this for our any journal. However, journal have no objection if author go directly for this paid DOI service.