The Government of India has set targets to reduce 85% of the use of Hydrofluoro Carbons (HFC) by 2047 (over the 2024-2026 average levels). Based on onsite visits to randomly selected seafood processing plants and cold storages in Andhra Pradesh State, India, the authors found that more than 70% of them use reciprocating compressors based on HFC...
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Compressed air systems account for 5-35% of electricity use among the Indian manufacturing sector. It shares a significant portion of the production cost, but its energy-efficiency measures are not widely applied in India yet. From 2011-18, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)...
The electric CO2 water source heat pumps (EHP) generate hot water and cold water simultaneously using the trans-critical cycle of the natural refrigerant CO2. Since their introduction in 2001, EHP were regarded as the next generation of low carbon technologies. The results from piloting EHP at two diary plants, one in Anand, Gujarat and other in...
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Carbon Pricing Policy in Japan
2016 Spring Conference of the Korean Association of Public Finance (KAPF)
Annual Conference of Japan Society of Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (JSEEPS)
This paper presents a survey study to companies in China and Korea for understanding their opinions to financial subsidy policies for industrial energy saving. The survey in China was conducted during August 2012 to January 2013 and 201 respondents were confirmed to be valid. The survey to Korean companies was carried out during December 2012 to...
Conference Paper

The Pricing of Carbon Emissions from the Business Perspective in Northeast Asia
The 4th Congress of the East Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAAERE 2014 )
Conference Paper

The Pricing of An Analysis of Company’s Preferences to Carbon Tax Policy and GHG Emissions Trading Schemes in Korea
14th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation
This paper presents an analysis of choice preferences of Chinese companies to the design options of carbon tax policy. The data were collected from 201 companies, with around half of them based in the western Shanxi Province and the other half from the eastern Jiangsu Province. Modeling analysis of the discrete choice dataset confirms the...
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Carbon Prices Affordable for the Companies in Northeast Asia – with the Republic of Korea and China as the Cases
The Korean Association of Public Finance
Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 2012