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Green sustainable development has become an important topic of concern to human society.Energy clean and low-carbon transformation is an important lever for promoting regional green development. Investigating the driving mechanisms of energy transformation is helpful to explore the effective path for accelerating the process of green development. Meanwhile, Sichuan Province is a demonstration province of clean energy and an important energy transportation hub in China, and it should play an exemplary role in the process of high-quality development. In this regard, this study uses the two-stage super-efficiency network SBM model to measure the green development efficiency based on the dual perspectives of green production and environmental governance. Based on historical data from 2006 to 2022, Technological innovation, industrial structure, and foreign direct investment are selected as transmission variables, and the fixed effects regression model is used to empirically analyse the direct and indirect impact effects of ET on GDE. The results show that the green development efficiency in Sichuan Province has gradually increased from 0.8303 in 2006–0.9270 in 2022, which is at a relatively high level. Energy transformation is helpful to improve the green development efficiency in Sichuan Province. However, due to insufficient complementary power sources and challenges in balancing energy supply and demand, the incentive level needs to be strengthened. Technological innovation, industrial structure, and foreign direct investment show indirect heterogeneous transmission effects in the process of influence.
Li et al. (2024) studied this question.