Digitalization and the Eco-Energy Transition: Using Information Technology to Improve Energy Efficiency and Economic Resilience

Abstract

This paper firstly analyzes the direct impact of information technology on energy efficiency and economic resilience in eco-energy digital transformation, and provides a basis for the subsequent analysis through the conduction path of information technology, eco-energy transformation, innovation output development vitality and urban entrepreneurial vitality indirectly acting on economic resilience. Secondly, the relevant factors affecting energy efficiency under the perspective of digitalization are selected, and an econometric model is established to empirically study the impact of nine factors on energy efficiency. Finally, the impact of industrial digitalization and technological innovation on economic resilience is analyzed and verified from the dynamic and spatial perspectives through the panel two-way fixed effects model and the spatial econometric model. The results are obtained: information technology is positively correlated with energy efficiency in the national model with a coefficient of 0.573, and the level of eco-energy development has a positive impact on energy efficiency in all models. Industrial digitization can empower economic resilience through information technology, and the coefficient of the interaction term between the two is 0.2192, which is significantly positive at the 1% level.