Nexus between residential electricity consumption and household characteristics: heterogeneous urban and rural panel evidences from North China

Mingliang Liang,Shiying Zhang,Sen Guo,Jie Ji,Wenxuan Li,Huiru Zhao,Huan Liu

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202125702011

Abstract

With the growth of residential electricity consumption and the development of power energy conservation, exploring the factors that affect residential electricity consumption is of great significance for promoting the sustainable development of the regional economy-power system. This paper examines the influencing factors of residential electricity consumption according to the data in 6 provinces in North China over 2008-2018, and two panels named urban panel and rural panel are constructed. Three conventional influencing factors are selected in this paper, namely, population (POP), per capita disposable income (DI) and per capita consumption expenditure (PCCE). Furthermore, considering that household characteristics have an impact on residential electricity consumption, this paper adds the number of household appliances (HA) and the per capita housing area (LS) into the factor set. Heterogeneous panel analysis techniques are applied to achieve the analysis, finding that household characteristics have significant impacts on electricity consumption of urban and rural residents, and the impact on electricity consumption of urban residents is greater than that on rural residents. Based on the empirical results, this paper puts forward several policy recommendations to effectively improve the residential electricity consumption and reduce the gap between urban and rural residential electricity consumption.

Highlights

With the promotion of air pollution prevention and control policies, various regions in China have responded positively to national advocacy and gradually carried out the work of energy conservation and emission reduction [1]
Investigating the influence factors of residential electricity consumption can accurately grasp the characteristics of residential electricity consumption, so as to provide basis for grid planning and energy policy formulation [2], which is conducive to promoting the sustainable development of regional power and economy
This paper introduces variables reflecting the characteristics of households, namely the number of household appliances and the per capita housing area, which expands the set of influencing factors for residential electricity consumption, and enhances comprehensiveness and pertinence of the research results

Summary

Introduction

With the promotion of air pollution prevention and control policies, various regions in China have responded positively to national advocacy and gradually carried out the work of energy conservation and emission reduction [1]. Along with continuous development of economy and improvement of residents’ living standards, the residential electricity consumption has become an important part of the electricity consumption of the whole society. Investigating the influence factors of residential electricity consumption can accurately grasp the characteristics of residential electricity consumption, so as to provide basis for grid planning and energy policy formulation [2], which is conducive to promoting the sustainable development of regional power and economy. Residential electricity consumption is affected by many factors, like power price, climate characteristics, population size and people’s living level [3]. Some scholars examined the impact of single factor on the electricity consumption of residents. Different scholars have adopted several methods to explore factors affecting residential electricity consumption, of which the

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