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Spatial Distribution of Coal-Fired Power Plants in China
Lunyu Xie; Ying Huang; Ping Qin
发表日期2016-11-22
出版年2016
页码EfD DP 16-25
语种英语
摘要

Coal has fueled China’s fast growth in the last decades, but it also severely pollutes the air and causes many health issues. The magnitude of the health damage caused by air pollution depends on the location of emission sources. In this paper, we look into the spatial distribution of coal-fired power plants, the major emission sources in China, and investigate the determining factors behind the distribution. We see an overall increase in installed coal-fired power capacity in recent years, with capacity leaps in some provinces. We find that the driving factors are economic development and expansion of electricity grid coverage; the latter factor plays a key role in provinces that are less developed but have abundant coal resources.We also find that firms react to utilization hours, which are assigned by the government, but not to electricity prices, which are set by the government as well. These findings suggest a way to reduce health damages caused by air pollution without harming the economy: attracting coal-fired plants to less populated areas by developing trans-province electricity trade and grid coverage.

主题Energy and Electricity ; International
子主题China
URLhttp://www.rff.org/research/publications/spatial-distribution-coal-fired-power-plants-china
来源智库Resources for the Future (United States)
资源类型智库出版物
条目标识符http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/41478
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Lunyu Xie,Ying Huang,Ping Qin. Spatial Distribution of Coal-Fired Power Plants in China. 2016.
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