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Industrial Chain, Supply Chain and Value Chain in the Energy Industry: Impacts and Challenges in the Green and Low-Carbon Transition

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "C: Energy Economics and Policy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2025) | Viewed by 6808

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Dr. Jiachao Peng

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1. School of Law & Business, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, China
2. Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, Beijing 100710, China
3. School of Business Administration, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, China
Interests: energy efficiency; energy exploitation; energy investment; efficiency and productivity analysis; pollution and carbon reduction; digital industrialization; manufacturing value chain
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Dr. Le Wen

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Energy Centre, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Interests: energy economics; the impact of wind generation on electricity prices; the impact of wind hydrodynamics on electricity prices; wind farm investment decisions; energy efficiency and energy consumption; electric mobility and charging infrastructure; sustainable mobility network; the nexus between solar potential and electric vehicle uptake; carbon emissions and pollution-related health effects; input–output analysis and decomposition analysis; green technology; digital industrialization
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Prof. Dr. Jianzhong Xiao

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School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Interests: economy of energy; energy; oil and gas pipeline configuration
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Prof. Dr. Ming Yi

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School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Interests: regional innovation management and policy; regional science and technology; regional sustainable development
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Dr. Mingyue (Selena) Sheng

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Energy Centre, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Interests: climate change issues; assessment of transport emissions, fossil fuel consumption and economic performance; carbon emissions reduction; economic evaluations of emerging technologies in transportation systems; policy appraisals for the faster uptake of alternative fuel vehicles; economic modeling and policy analysis of future transport infrastructure for electric and hydrogen vehicles
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The most significant source of carbon dioxide emissions is related to energy production and consumption. Vigorously promoting a green and low-carbon transition in the energy sector is an important measure to achieve peak carbon emissions and carbon neutrality, as well as accelerate the construction of a modern energy system. The development and utilization of solar energy, wind energy, hydropower, biomass energy, geothermal energy, and other energy sources along the entire industry chain have achieved significant results. However, the existing institutional mechanisms, policy systems, and governance methods still face some difficulties and challenges in adapting to the needs of promoting a green and low-carbon transition in the energy sector under the present circumstances. This Special Issue focuses on energy consumption, technology, systems, supply chains, and value chains, explores international cooperation, and takes into account national conditions and the coordinated development of security, stable growth, and structural adjustment. It analyzes the deepening of institutional and mechanism reforms and innovations in the energy sector, extracts mechanisms, pathways, and strategies for accelerating the construction of a clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient energy system, promotes the high-quality development of energy and the comprehensive green transition of the economy and society, and provides guarantees for achieving the goals of peak carbon emissions, carbon neutrality, and building a modern economic system.

The main objectives of this Special Issue include (but are not limited to) the following:

  1. Examining the influence of institutional frameworks and top-level designs on the green and low-carbon transition of the entire energy industry chain, supply chain, and value chain. Discussing the overall and partial, short-term and medium-to-long-term impacts, analyzing the complementary, coordinated, and substitute relationships among different energy varieties during the transitional stages.
  2. Identifying and managing risks in the green and low-carbon transition of energy, exploring the resilience, risks, and corresponding strategies in the process of transforming the supply chain, industry chain, and value chain.
  3. Addressing resource allocation issues in the low-carbon transition of energy, including factor distortions, energy infrastructure, key core technologies, etc.
  4. Researching the market–government relationship in the industrial chain, supply chain, and value chain under the background of a low-carbon energy transition.

Dr. Jiachao Peng
Dr. Le Wen
Prof. Dr. Jianzhong Xiao
Prof. Dr. Ming Yi
Dr. Mingyue (Selena) Sheng
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Keywords

  • green and low-carbon transition of the energy industry
  • risk
  • short-term and medium-to-long-term impacts
  • market–government relationship
  • resource allocation

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Market Risk of Lithium Industry Chain—Evidence from Listed Companies
by Weicheng Kong, Jinhua Cheng and Jianzhong Xiao
Energies 2024, 17(23), 6173; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17236173 - 7 Dec 2024
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Lithium, a crucial raw material for new energy vehicles, is experiencing significant market price fluctuations due to escalating geopolitical conflicts, periodic mismatches in supply and demand, and increased attention to lithium resources from countries around the world. These factors may adversely affect the [...] Read more.
Lithium, a crucial raw material for new energy vehicles, is experiencing significant market price fluctuations due to escalating geopolitical conflicts, periodic mismatches in supply and demand, and increased attention to lithium resources from countries around the world. These factors may adversely affect the development of the new energy vehicle industry. This paper adopts the TVP-VAR-DY model, which measures dynamic spillover effects by allowing for variance changes through the estimation of a stochastic Kalman filter, thereby measuring risk spillover among upstream and downstream firms in the lithium industry chain. We selected 16 listed companies and six regional financial markets as the research sample, with the sample period from 4 July 2018, to 30 June 2023. The main conclusions are as follows: Between 2018 and 2020, the overall risk spillover in the lithium industry chain demonstrated a declining trend, though it experienced a sudden surge in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This increase was followed by a gradual decline as the global economy improved and market stability was restored, leading to a reduction in risk aversion. Regarding the reception of risk spillovers, upstream firms exhibited a generally consistent level of directional risk spillovers, whereas downstream firms experienced more significant fluctuations. Chinese firms exhibited a higher level of received risk spillovers compared to their international counterparts, with less variation in these spillovers. From the perspective of risk spillover effects, significant variations were observed between firms in both the upstream and downstream markets. Chinese firms exhibited a higher level of risk inflow than international firms, with more pronounced changes in risk spillovers. Upstream enterprises should enhance their market competitiveness to mitigate the adverse effects of economic uncertainty. Downstream enterprises can alleviate the rise in raw material costs resulting from market price fluctuations through strategic cooperation. Additionally, the government should increase the market supply of resources, which will contribute to the establishment of a more robust lithium industry chain system. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industrial Chain, Supply Chain and Value Chain in the Energy Industry: Impacts and Challenges in the Green and Low-Carbon Transition)
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An Efficiency Evaluation and Driving Effect Analysis of the Green Transformation of the Thermal Power Industrial Chain: Evidence Based on Impacts and Challenges in China
by Hui Zhu, Yijie Bian, Fangrong Ren and Xiaoyan Liu
Energies 2024, 17(15), 3840; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17153840 - 4 Aug 2024
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The high carbon emissions and pollution of China’s thermal power industry chain have exacerbated environmental and climate degradation. Therefore, accelerating the green transformation process is of great significance in promoting the sustainable development of enterprises. This study selected 30 listed thermal power enterprises [...] Read more.
The high carbon emissions and pollution of China’s thermal power industry chain have exacerbated environmental and climate degradation. Therefore, accelerating the green transformation process is of great significance in promoting the sustainable development of enterprises. This study selected 30 listed thermal power enterprises in China as research objects, analyzed their data from 2018 to 2022, set targeted input–output indicators for different stages, and used a two-stage dynamic data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to evaluate and measure the efficiency of the green transformation of Chinese thermal power enterprises. In addition, this study also uses the logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) method to analyze the driving effects of green transformation. The results indicate that in terms of overall efficiency, there is a significant difference in the overall performance of these 30 thermal power enterprises, with a large difference in average efficiency values. Efficiency values are related to enterprise size. In terms of stage efficiency, the average efficiency value of thermal power enterprises in the profit stage was significantly higher than that in the transformation stage, and the profitability of Chinese thermal power enterprises was better. In terms of sub-indicator efficiency, the efficiency of each indicator shows a “U”-shaped trend, and there is a certain correlation between the operating costs and revenue of thermal power enterprises, the market value of green transformation, and related indicators. In addition, the most important factor affecting the efficiency of green transformation is the sewage cost they face, whereas their operational capabilities have the least impact on their green transformation. In this regard, thermal power enterprises should increase their investment in the research and development of key technologies for thermal power transformation and continuously optimize their energy structure. The government will increase financial support for thermal power green transformation enterprises and correspondingly increase emission costs. Full article
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Research on Optimization of Financial Performance Evaluation of Energy Enterprises under the Background of Low-Carbon Economy
by Xiao Li, Hongxin Gao and Enyi Zhou
Energies 2024, 17(10), 2311; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17102311 - 10 May 2024
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The development of human society and the production and operation activities of enterprises have brought about global warming, resulting in frequent natural disasters. It has become the consensus of all countries in the world to develop a green and low-carbon economy. Under this [...] Read more.
The development of human society and the production and operation activities of enterprises have brought about global warming, resulting in frequent natural disasters. It has become the consensus of all countries in the world to develop a green and low-carbon economy. Under this background, enterprises, as the main body of economic activities, especially energy industry enterprises, should optimize and upgrade the traditional production and operation mode with high pollution, high consumption, and low output to a high-efficiency and low-pollution mode, and pay attention to the co-ordinated development of economic benefits, social benefits, and ecological benefits. Financial performance evaluation indicators have become the main basis for senior leaders of energy industry enterprises to make decisions and evaluate the low-carbon economic benefits of enterprises. This paper constructs a set of financial evaluation index systems of energy industry enterprises under the background of a low-carbon economy from four dimensions: profitability, asset quality, debt risk, and business growth. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is used to measure the comprehensive contribution of financial indicators of low-carbon production and operation. The purpose of this study is to provide scientific financial management decisions for energy enterprises to reduce costs and increase the efficiency and low-carbon operation under the background of a low-carbon economy. The research results show that the comprehensive evaluation index system after the traditional financial evaluation index of energy industry enterprises is integrated with the evaluation index of a low-carbon economy can help enterprises make more correct and effective financial decisions in the process of survival, development, and growth, and, at the same time, the financial evaluation index of a low-carbon economy should pay more attention to the indicators with a higher comprehensive contribution, so as to effectively promote the low-carbon operation efficiency of enterprise production, management, and sales. Compared with other research results, this paper innovatively constructs a financial management decision-making index system for measuring the low-carbon operation of energy enterprises in theory, which has important value in guiding energy enterprises to reduce costs and increase the efficiency and low-carbon operation in practice. Full article
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Influencing Factors and Mechanisms of Corporate Social Responsibility Reputation under Green and Low-Carbon Transition: Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies
by Shuke Fu, Mengxia Tian, Yingchen Ge, Tingting Yao and Jiali Tian
Energies 2024, 17(9), 2044; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17092044 - 25 Apr 2024
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Amid China’s pursuit of a green and low-carbon transition, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is facing new challenges. Our research delves into the influencing factors and mechanisms for CSR reputation under green and low-carbon transition and provides practical enlightenment for enterprises to achieve sustainable [...] Read more.
Amid China’s pursuit of a green and low-carbon transition, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is facing new challenges. Our research delves into the influencing factors and mechanisms for CSR reputation under green and low-carbon transition and provides practical enlightenment for enterprises to achieve sustainable development. This paper constructs a comprehensive index system of CSR from five dimensions (innovation, coordination, sustainability, openness, and sharing), and CSR reputation of China’s A-share listed companies is comprehensively estimated by using an entropy method and data from 2013 to 2021. Then, from the perspective of external supervision and internal governance, we discuss the influence factors of CSR reputation, with an emphasis on the impact of public environmental concerns. Finally, the realization mechanism of CSR is further revealed. It is found that public environmental concern and the expansion of the enterprise scale boost the enhancement of CSR reputation. However, a higher proportion of female managers tends to hinder CSR reputation. Furthermore, public environmental concern plays a more prominent role in improving CSR reputation of non-state-owned and eastern enterprises. Additionally, public environmental concern significantly enhances CSR reputation through green technology innovation and executive environmental awareness. This research provides valuable insights for improving CSR reputation and optimizing regulatory compliance and governance practices. Full article
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