How is China's energy green consumption revolution progressing? A comprehensive evaluation method based on entropy-weighted TOPSIS method

Abstract The Energy Green Consumption Revolution (EGCR) is an important sub-project of China's ongoing energy transition. Majority of the current studies on energy transition focused on the dynamics of the interaction between energy consumption and socio-technical elements such as economy, technology, environment, and institutions, and the transformation of energy consumption behavior, while only a few mentioned the crucial question regarding the EGCR progressing in China. This paper builds an integrated energy-economy-society-environment assessment framework and evaluates the progress of China's EGCR at the national, regional and inter-provincial levels using the entropy-weighted TOPSIS method. The evaluation results revealed that the overall progress of China's EGCR is stagnant, showing a stepped evolution of high level in the eastern region, medium level in the central region, and low level in the western region, with a huge gap in the progress of reform among provinces.