Evolutionary development of energy efficiency in the context of the national carbon-free economic development

Abstract

This research aims to analyse the evolutionary development of the scientific treatises devoted to the national economic energy efficiency. To attain the paper's goal, this study is carried out in the following logical sequence: 1) identification and generation of the necessary relevant data: 2) analysis of keywords co-occurrence to determine the promising research areas on energy efficiency. The authors used keywords "energy policy", "energy efficiency", "sustainable development" to generate the relevant study sample. Thus, the study sample consists of 48,888 publications indexed by the scientometric databases Scopus and Web of Science. The study period is 2000-2020. Visualization of the bibliometric analysis results concerning the national economic energy efficiency management was conducted using the VOSviewer software v.1.6.10. The co-occurrence network map identified the six stages of evolutionary development of scientific treatises on the national economic energy efficiency. Besides, the authors applied Google Trends tools to analyse 2,172 internet search queries regarding the social concern in energy efficiency. In the study, the authors conclude that the scientific society has not yet reached a consensus in identifying key determinants of energy efficiency under the national economy transition to a carbon-free development model. The research results can be helpful for scholars investigating the determinants of developing the national economic energy efficiency.