Recently, China’s energy industry has been continuously depressed due to a slowdown in its economic development. China’s energy companies have made considerable efforts to promote their corporate performance to mitigate this performance decline and to ensure the sustainable development of China’s energy industry, macro economy, society and environment. In this paper, the effects of two business...

In this paper economywide effects of SO2 emission reduction in Poland are studied. In order to fulfill the commitments required by the Second Sulfur Protocol (SSP), Poland needs to achieve roughly a 50% reduction of SO2 emission in relation to 1992 no later than in 2010. A 16% reduction was already achieved after two years of the Protocol signature, in 1996, and it keeps progressing. Neverthele...

The energy sector is essential to a country’s economy and social life. In recent years, the market in Romania has experienced certain dynamism, influenced by multiple factors such as regional conflicts, national EU legislation, liberalization of market, increasing demand for products. These determined sharp increase electricity, gas, oil prices years. Based on above, present study aims analyze ...

Research and policy instruments for improved energy efficiency in industry have historically focused on large and energy-intensive companies, perhaps because a large part of the energy use is concentrated therein. However, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for 30 % of Swedish industrial energy use. Research shows that both the relative energy efficiency potential and the cost-ef...