Abstract
China is rapidly developing in terms of urbanization; thus, to address the decline in agriculture caused by the outflow of village populations, it is imperative that a village merger plan be implemented. Such a plan would be beneficial in terms of re-evaluating the scale and quantity of biomass combined heat and power (CHP) plants and how these feature in the village merger planning process; it would also assist in researching the investment costs and energy utilization ratios of biomass CHP plants, optimizing the energy consumption structure, and promoting sustainable development processes. By undertaking a typical case study, we obtain a series of universal strategies. Predicting the extent of urbanization is useful in determining village abandonment—in which populations from relocated villages redistribute to other villages—while new towns are simultaneously built in sparsely populated north-western areas for relocated individuals. By comparing analysed data pertaining to the construction of 15 biomass CHP plants before the village merger plan and those pertaining to the centralized construction of a single biomass CHP plant after the village merger plan, we find that investing in a single, centralized biomass CHP plant saves RMB 649 million, compared to investing in 15 decentralized plants. Additionally, by building a single plant, 85,983.51 tons of straw can be saved annually, which represents a value of RMB 21.4959 million.
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