Research Article

Embodied Energy Use in China’s Infrastructure Investment from 1992 to 2007: Calculation and Policy Implications

Table 1

The structural decomposition results of China’s embodied energy use in infrastructure investment.

1992–19971997–20022002–2007

−64.90−34.85−58.01
−6.26−1.20−2.33
149.3593.17239.40
78.1957.13179.06

(a) Negative values indicate effects of decreasing embodied energy use in infrastructure investment.
(b) and are the effect of direct energy intensities, the industrial structure effect, changes in infrastructure investment and change in embodied energy use in infrastructure investment respectively.