Drivers toward a Low-Carbon Electricity System in China's Provinces

被引:33
作者
Peng, Xu [1 ]
Tao, Xiaoma [1 ]
Feng, Kuishuang [2 ]
Hubacek, Klaus [3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Tongji Univ, Sch Econ & Management, 1239 Siping Rd, Shanghai 200092, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Maryland, Dept Geog Sci, Lefrak Hall, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[3] Univ Groningen, CIREES, ESRIG, NL-9747 AG Groningen, Netherlands
[4] Masaryk Univ, Dept Environm Studies, Jostova 10, Brno 60200, Czech Republic
关键词
POWER SECTOR; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; DECOUPLING ANALYSIS; INTENSITY CHANGES; NUCLEAR-POWER; CO2; EMISSIONS; ENERGY; PERFORMANCE; MITIGATION;
D O I
10.1021/acs.est.0c00536
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Decarbonization of the power sector is one of the most important efforts to meet the climate mitigation targets under the Paris Agreement. China's power sector is of global importance, accounting for similar to 25% of global electricity production in 2015. The carbon intensity of China's electricity is still much higher than the global average, but the country has made important strides toward a low-carbon transition based on two main pillars: improvement of energy efficiency and decreasing the share of fossil fuels. By applying a decoupling indicator, our study shows that 21 provinces achieved a "relative decoupling" of carbon emissions and electricity production and the remaining nine provinces achieved "absolute decoupling" between 2005 and 2015. We updated China's emission factors based on the most recent data by also considering the quality of imported coal and compared our results with the widely used Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change coefficients to show the sensitivity of results and the potential error. Our decomposition analysis shows that improvement of energy efficiency was the dominant driver for decarbonization of 16 provincial power sectors, while the access to low-carbon electricity and substitution of natural gas for coal and oil further accelerated their decarbonization.
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页码:5774 / 5782
页数:9
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