Energy revolution: for a sustainable future

Du, Xiangwan

doi:10.1080/10042857.2015.1017906

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“…Energy storage, electric vehicles and other technology costs are also seeing rapid decline, ready to embrace massive industrialization and experience faster growth driven by technological innovation and policy support. Natural gas, as a cleaner, more efficient and lower-carbon source of fossil energy than coal and oil, enjoys its unique advantages and importance in the low-carbon transition of the energy system, providing grounds for the exploitation and utilization of more conventional and unconventional natural gas to replace and reduce the consumption of coal and oil [23,24].…”

Section: Speed Up the Decarbonization Of Energy MIX And Ensure Clean Safe And Economical Energy Supplymentioning

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2021

China's Long-Term Low-Carbon Development Strategies and Pathways

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Policies and Measures for China's Low-Carbon Development Put in Place and Perpetuate a Complete and Comprehensive Policy FrameworkChina has created a policy system for low-carbon development that covers a wide range of sectors. Since the end of last century, the central government has deemed climate change policy as part of its sustainable development policy, in particular as part of its energy reform and economic development policy. Despite a milestone in itself, this approach lacks clarity on the importance of climate change, which results in the absence of clear policies for climate change mitigation and adaptation [1]. Since the 12th Five-Year Plan, more independent policies have emerged in the field of climate change, with setting clear and legally binding targets for curbing carbon intensity for the very first time. A variety of low-carbon pilot projects, carbon trading pilot projects, and MRV capacity building have also been launched. During the 11th Five-Year Plan period, the Chinese government established the first energy conservation policy system with binding targets as the centerpiece and performance assessment as the safeguard, contributing to lower greenhouse gas emissions as well as reduced energy intensity. With some revisions, most of the energy saving policies were kept in the 12th and 13th Five-Year Plans. For instance, energy saving mandates were expanded from the industrial sector to transport and buildings; the provincial breakdown of energy saving targets were more science-based; targets were extended from capping energy intensity at the national level to capping total energy consumption and promoting industry-wide energy saving; and more focus was placed on the role of market forces [2,3]. During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, China set a target for CO 2 intensity for the first time, i.e. a reduction of 17% per 10,000 yuan of GDP, with continued enforcement of the accountability system. The 13th Five-Year Plan

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Section: Speed Up the Decarbonization Of Energy MIX And Ensure Clean Safe And Economical Energy Supplymentioning

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2021

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“…Second, we input the price data series into the energy system dynamics model to obtain 5000 consumption quantities corresponding to the price order, and then obtained the demand function curve. Finally, we used Equation (12) and the difference method to calculate the price elasticity series, in order to obtain the price elasticity distribution curve:…”

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“…At present, natural gas plays an important part in energy structure optimization, as it is cleaner and more environmentally friendly (i.e., than coal or oil) [8][9][10]. In 2018, natural gas accounted for 23.3% of the global primary energy consumption and contributed 43% to the growth of energy consumption [11], making an outstanding contribution to the transition to a global low-carbon energy structure [12,13]. In-depth advancement of industrialization and urbanization has boosted natural gas consumption [14,15], but its proportion in China was far lower than the global average [16].…”

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Substitution Effect of Natural Gas and the Energy Consumption Structure Transition in China

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A crucial problem which China faces is how to improve its energy consumption structure. In this paper, a system dynamic model of energy substitution based on energy capital and putty-clay theory is adopted, in order to explore the substitution effect of natural gas on the energy consumption structure transition in China. The results demonstrate that the huge capital stocks of coal and oil capacities effectively delay the progress of natural gas substitution for optimizing the energy structure, resulting in a limited effect of natural gas substitution in the short term and a large cumulative effect in the long term. Further scenario analyses indicate that natural gas subsidies and carbon price policies have positive effects on the growth of natural gas consumption and the optimization of the energy structure. We also found that a higher pressure of safety supply may emerge to meet the demand for energy consumption in the energy transition. Recommendations are given for improving the energy consumption structure in China from three aspects: allocating capital investment to natural gas, reducing the transition cost between natural gas and other energy sources, and awareness of the systemic risks in energy consumption.

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“…Based on the guidance of the new century energy security concept [35], the paper constructs the multi-attribute power planning decision system ( Figure 6), and selects the six indexes, including the total social cost, the fuel cost of coal power, the proportion of renewable energy sources, the pollutant emissions, the GHG emissions and the policy coordination and consistency to determine the optimal decision planning. Through the analysis, the paper recommends S2 as the optimal decision planning to realize the collaborative optimization of power planning, power policy and the power system.…”

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Dynamic Integrated Resource Strategic Planning Model: A Case Study of China’s Power Sector Planning into 2050

Yuan

2017

Sustainability

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This paper proposes a Dynamic Integrated Resource Strategic Planning (DIRSP) model based on a semi-Markov decision-making process. Considering the policy transfer probability matrix, we discuss the influence of different policy portfolios and input intensity on the timing and scale of low-carbon transition during the power planning process. In addition, we discuss various planning scenarios from a socio-technical system transition perspective. Scenarios are compiled to compare the pathways of power planning in China during 2015-2050 under different policies, including a typical reproduction pathway with unchanged policy that maintains the original coal-dominated technology pathway, a de-alignment/re-alignment pathway where renewable energy power technologies develop from niches to mainstream while the planning time for peak coal power moves ahead in 10-20 years due to subsidies to renewable and carbon tax policy, and the substitution and reconfiguration pathways in which renewable energy technologies compete with coal power in parallel, in which coal power will peak by 2020 while wind power and solar power will realize large-scale development by 2020 and 2030, respectively. Case study on power planning in China indicates that the methodology proposed in our study can enhance our understanding on the low-carbon transition process and the interaction between energy policy and transition pathway.

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Energy revolution: for a sustainable future

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Substitution Effect of Natural Gas and the Energy Consumption Structure Transition in China

Dynamic Integrated Resource Strategic Planning Model: A Case Study of China’s Power Sector Planning into 2050

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