IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/endesu/v27y2025i5d10.1007_s10668-023-04372-w.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Green cost performance measure of China’s thermal power industry: evidence from Chinese 30 provinces

Author

Listed:
  • Xiang Chen

    (Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics)

  • Jiayu Zhang

    (Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics)

  • Chih-Yu Yang

    (Soochow University)

  • Ching-Cheng Lu

    (National Open University)

  • Jun Wang

    (Xinjiang Institute of Technology)

Abstract

As the concentration of carbon dioxide within the environment increases, the dwelling environment of people is significantly influenced. As an industry with excessive carbon emissions in China, thermal energy companies are the major areas where China should lower carbon emissions. This research first adopts a New-Cost model to survey the energy performance of thermal-electricity field in four foremost regions of China from 2013 to 2017. Due to the variations in technology of thermal power generation among four regions, The technology gap ratio analysis is applied to estimate the gap between the group frontier and meta-frontier technology. The estimated results display that the eastern region is better in terms of efficiency than the other three regions, also there is a great technological gap in the northeastern region. On the premise of the research conclusions, further improving the performance of Chinese thermal power organizations underneath carbon emission constraints in the future is proposed in this study. It is significantly profitable for several companies to optimize their own short comings.

Suggested Citation

  • Xiang Chen & Jiayu Zhang & Chih-Yu Yang & Ching-Cheng Lu & Jun Wang, 2025. "Green cost performance measure of China’s thermal power industry: evidence from Chinese 30 provinces," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 27(5), pages 11627-11644, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:endesu:v:27:y:2025:i:5:d:10.1007_s10668-023-04372-w
    DOI: 10.1007/s10668-023-04372-w
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10668-023-04372-w
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1007/s10668-023-04372-w?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:endesu:v:27:y:2025:i:5:d:10.1007_s10668-023-04372-w. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.