Abstract
This paper discusses energy conservation and emissions reduction (ECER) in China’s power sector. To better understand China’s successes and failures on energy conservation in the electricity industry, first it is important to know the status of China’s power sector, and the key energy conservation actions, as well as the achievements in the past years. Second, two ECER scenarios are constructed to probe the 2020 energy conservation potential. Results show that the potential is estimated to be more than 240 million tons of coal equivalent (Mtce). Third, the improvement of coal power operations, structures and technologies, and ambitious deployment of energy conservation measures are proposed to fully explore the potential of China’s power industry. Fourth, great challenges for China’s ECER and some suggested policies are summed up. The lessons learnt from China will provide a valuable reference and useful inputs for other emerging economies.
Highlights
Due to the characteristics of China’s energy resource attributes, the current power generation mix dominated by coal leads to enormous emissions, which is a key concern for energy conservation and emissions reduction (ECER)
The analysis shows the greatest energy conservation potential could be achieved by the active integration of renewable energy and improvement of terminal energy efficiency
The energy conservation potential from operation improvement and clean coal technology is limited in the near future, while the potential from renewable energy is increasing
Summary
Due to the characteristics of China’s energy resource attributes, the current power generation mix dominated by coal leads to enormous emissions, which is a key concern for energy conservation and emissions reduction (ECER). Detailed quantitative research measuring the energy conservation potential of China’s power sector is rare. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the status quo of ECER and to probe the energy conservation potential in the power sector up to 2020. China provide aofvaluable reference useful inputs for on ECER in China’s sector focused on will the construction an evolution indicatorand system [11,12,13]. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the status quo of ECER and to probe the energy discusses the actions and achievements of energy conservation. Scenario and an alternative scenario to probe the energy conservation perspective and describes how China’s power sector is different or similar to its Western counterparts. The paper is organized as follows: Section 2 briefly presents the status quo on China’s power sector, and situations between
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