Driving Factors for Carbon Dioxide Emission Changes from Electricity Generation in Eastern China

Abstract:

This paper analyzes the potential factors influencing the changes of CO₂ emissions of the power generation for four provinces and one city in Eastern China during the period of 1995-2012 applying the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) method. The changes of CO₂ emissions in power generation are decomposed into three factors: electricity production effect, electricity generation structural effect and energy generation intensity effect. The empirical results show production effect is the major factor responsible for rise in power generation CO₂ emissions during the period 1995-2012. With the exception of Fujian province the energy generation intensity effect is mainly responsible for the decrease in CO₂ emissions over the period 1995–2012.The contribution of generation structure effect to CO₂ emissions changes is different across the regions in Eastern China and it had little effect on CO₂ emissions changes. The empirical results also show that there is a potential of efficiency improvement of fired power plants and optimization of the power generation structure.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 962-965)
• Pages: 1423-1428
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.962-965.1423
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Jian Chao Hou*, Juan Guo
• Keywords: Electricity Generation, Lmdi

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