Article ID: | iaor20125750 |
Volume: | 63 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 578 |
End Page Number: | 584 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2012 |
Journal: | Computers & Industrial Engineering |
Authors: | Liu Bin, Wu Jun, Rao Xi, Zhang Zongyi |
Keywords: | forecasting: applications |
This paper analyzes energy efficiency of 30 regions in China mainland for the period of 2000–2009. The slacks‐based measure model of data envelopment analysis is for the first time employed to investigate the energy consumption slacks and energy saving potential of each region in China at each year. This approach, with both slacks of inputs and outputs, has a higher discrimination power. Different from the neglect of the environmental effects of undesirable outputs in the existing studies of regional efficiency, this study considers labor, capital stock and energy consumption as inputs, gross domestic product as desirable output, chemical oxygen demand and SO