Research on Driving Factors and Spatial Effects of Electricity Carbon Emissions in China

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10.2991/978-94-6463-708-3_47How to use a DOI?

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Electricity carbon emissions; Full life cycle; Spatial effect; Spatial spillover effects; Driving factors

Abstract

For the past 25 years, China’s power system has maintained rapid growth and can face a huge transformation, and many of the advantages of the past have become resistance to the transformation from such a large-scale centralized, fossil-fuel-based power system to a zero-carbon power system. From a full life cycle perspective, this paper recalculates the carbon emissions(CE) of the power industry, and measures global Moran’s I values, which reveals that there is a positive spatial effect of CE from power industry in some provinces of China, but the spatial aggregation effect is gradually weakening. This paper establishes a spatial error model to study the impact of different drivers on CE in each province, and the spatial panel results show that the proportion of thermal power generation, total installed capacity, per capita electricity consumption, and the average utilization hours of thermal power all contribute significantly to the CE of the power sector. Therefore, it is necessary to consider various aspects to reduce thermal power generation, optimize the structure of electricity supply, consider the spatial effect of neighboring provinces and cities, strengthen the synergistic control of carbon emission reduction among provinces, and promote the synergistic and optimal development of the power system in a green and low-carbon manner.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ruixin Qian
AU  - Shigong Jiang
AU  - Liang Ma
AU  - Hongyi Li
AU  - Peng Wang
AU  - Zining Cheng
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/05/09
TI  - Research on Driving Factors and Spatial Effects of Electricity Carbon Emissions in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 10th International Conference on Advances in Energy Resources and Environment Engineering (ICAESEE 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 439
EP  - 452
SN  - 2589-4943
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-708-3_47
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-708-3_47
ID  - Qian2025
ER  -