Planning China's Coal and Electricity Delivery System

Abstract

Although China produces 1.1 billion tons of coal per year, demand is projected at almost 1.6 billion tons in 2000. Transport bottlenecks, coal and electricity shortages, and worsening air pollution threaten the country's double-digit GNP growth. To address these problems, the World Bank and the Chinese State Planning Commission developed a decision support system consisting of a mixed-integer program, a geographic information system, and related submodels. The Coal Transport Study (CTS) model covers coal mining, washing, and transport; thermal, hydro, and nuclear power generation; electricity transmission; pollution levels; and scrubbers; which together will require at least $240 billion in new investments over a 15-year horizon. The analysis results influenced several government policies concerning GNP growth, coal imports, and various capital investments, with a potential benefit of about $6.4 billion from 1991 to 2005.

China‐related POM research: a literature review and suggestions for future research

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Transport corridors and regional balance in China: the case of coal trade and logistics

“…The spatial mismatch between coal supply and demand in China determined a long-term pattern that shapes the current distribution of flows and corridors (Kuby et al, 1995 .…”

Bibliometric Overview of Operations Research/Management Science Research in Asia

“…The largest number of co-authors for a paper is 16, originated from PRC. It was co-written by five American authors and 11 PRC authors (Kuby et al, 1995). One paper in Japan has ten authors, and four papers with nine authors.…”