ORIGINAL RESEARCH
How Do Different Types of Environmental
Regulations Affect Green Energy Efficiency?
– A Study Based on fsQCA
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School of Economics and Management, Southwest University of Science and Technology,
Mianyang 621010, Sichuan, China
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School of Environment and Resources, Southwest University of Science and Technology,
Mianyang Sichuan 621010, Sichuan, China
Submission date: 2023-02-03
Final revision date: 2023-03-16
Acceptance date: 2023-03-22
Online publication date: 2023-05-10
Publication date: 2023-06-23
Corresponding author
Pan Jiang
School of Environment and Resources, Southwest University of Science and Technology, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2023;32(4):3209-3223
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ABSTRACT
Faced with both economic and environmental pressures, how to improve energy efficiency
in a green way is gradually attracting attention. Reasonable environmental regulations can promote
the green transformation of energy and improve green energy efficiency, which is of great practical
significance for achieving global sustainable development. This paper measures the green energy
efficiency of 30 Chinese provinces in 2019 based on the Super-SBM model, selects five representative
antecedent conditions of three environmental regulation dimensions: command-and-control,
market-incentive, and voluntary public, and uses fsQCA to explore the group effects and enhancement
paths of different types of environmental regulations on green energy efficiency. The results found
that (1) there are four green energy efficiency enhancement paths: government pressure type, market
mobilization type, government-led public association type, and multiple subject type; (2) commandand-
control type environmental regulations play an important role in enhancing green energy efficiency
in most provinces; and (3) multiple subject type enhancement paths can achieve higher green energy
efficiency. This study investigates the impact of environmental regulation on green energy efficiency
in order to provide reference and reference for the improvement of green energy efficiency in China’s
provinces.