Managing energy infrastructure to decarbonize industrial parks in China

Guo, Yang; Chen, Lyujun

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14805-z

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“…In 2015, China agreed on the Paris Agreement and declared that the carbon emissions per GDP in 2030 must decrease by 60–65% of the value in 2005 6 . On the other hand, a wide variety of domestic actions have been taken to mitigate carbon dioxide and air pollution, e.g., improving energy efficiency 7 , facilitating renewable and sustainable energy 8 , enhancing forest carbon sequestration 9 , etc.…”

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Exploring the trade-offs between electric heating policy and carbon mitigation in China

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China has enacted a series of policies since 2015 to substitute electricity for in-home combustion for rural residential heating. The Electric Heating Policy (EHP) has contributed to significant improvements in air quality, benefiting hundreds of millions of people. This shift, however, has resulted in a sharp increase in electric loads and associated carbon emissions. Here, we show that China’s EHP will greatly increase carbon emissions. We develop a theoretical model to quantify the carbon emissions from power generation and rural residential heating sectors. We found that in 2015, an additional 101.69–162.89 megatons of CO2 could potentially be emitted if EHP was implemented in 45–55% of rural residents in Northern China. In 2020, the incremental carbon emission is expected to reach 130.03–197.87 megatons. Fortunately, the growth of carbon emission will slow down due to China’s urbanization progress. In 2030, the carbon emission increase induced by EHP will drop to 119.19–177.47 megatons. Finally, we conclude two kinds of practical pathways toward low-carbon electric heating, and provide techno-economic analyses.

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Exploring the trade-offs between electric heating policy and carbon mitigation in China

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“…The energy-saving and emission-reduction potentials of the 35 industrial sectors are significantly different, and technological progress has a large positive impact on emissions reduction in the industrial sector 41 . For example, energy storage technology can help with the decarbonization of the power industry 42 , and improving energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions of energy infrastructure is of great significance for the decarbonization of the industrial park and thus boosting the country’s low-carbon development 43 .…”

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Increased inequalities of per capita CO2 emissions in China

Yang

Hao

Feng

2021

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Designing inter-regional and inter-provincial responsibility-sharing mechanisms for climate change mitigation requires the knowledge of carbon distributions. This study is the first to use a two-sector (i.e., productive and household sectors) inequality decomposition approach to examine the regional, provincial, and national inequalities of per capita CO2 emissions (CPC) in China, as well as their determinants. We show that the CPC inequality index in China increased from 1.1364 in 2000 to 2.3688 in 2017, with the productive sector accounting for 91.42% of this expansion and households responsible for the rest. The production-side per capita output level, energy efficiency, energy structure, and industrial structure explain 69.01%, 12.81%, 5.57%, and 4.03% of these inequalities, respectively. Further, the household per capita energy consumption and energy structure explain only 8.12% and 0.46%, respectively. Therefore, future responsibility-sharing mechanisms for climate mitigation need to be formulated taking mainly the productive sector into account.

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“…The national deep decarbonization pathways described above provide a broad framework for deep and systemic change but do not specifically incorporate uniquely urban strategies for reducing the fossil fuel requirements of cities while offering a high quality of life (7). This should specifically include efficiency and demand reduction enabled by integrated spatial planning (33) and cross-sector urban industrial symbiosis (59)(60)(61). To adapt national deep decarbonization pathways to urban systems, an urban deep decarbonization framework has been developed ["Pathways Toward Net-Zero Carbon Cities and Urban Regions," by A. Ramaswami, K. Tong, Z. Ren, K. Kockelman & K.C.…”

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From Low- to Net-Zero Carbon Cities: The Next Global Agenda

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Churkinа

Hsu³

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Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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This article provides a systematic review of the literature on net-zero carbon cities, their objectives and key features, current efforts, and performance. We discuss how net-zero differs from low-carbon cities, how different visions of a net-zero carbon city relate to urban greenhouse gas accounting, deep decarbonization pathways and their application to cities and urban infrastructure systems, net-zero carbon cities in theory versus practice, lessons learned from net-zero carbon city plans and implementation, and opportunities and challenges in transitioning toward net-zero carbon citie across both sectors and various spatial fabrics within cities. We conclude that it is possible fors cities to get to or near net-zero carbon, but this requires systemic transformation. Crucially, a city cannot achieve net-zero by focusing only on reducing emissions within its administrative boundaries, particularly in how it can enable sequestering of carbon from the atmosphere. Because of carbon lock-in, and the complex interplay between urban infrastructure and behavior, strategic sequencing of mitigation action is essential for cities to achieve net-zero. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Volume 46 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Managing energy infrastructure to decarbonize industrial parks in China

Cited by 46 publications

References 30 publications

Exploring the trade-offs between electric heating policy and carbon mitigation in China

Exploring the trade-offs between electric heating policy and carbon mitigation in China

Increased inequalities of per capita CO2 emissions in China

From Low- to Net-Zero Carbon Cities: The Next Global Agenda

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