Abstract
Achieving Net zero emissions is a common challenge facing all mankind. Low-carbon electricity has always been the main research field of global GHG emission control. The current article aims to use the bibliometric analysis to describe the characteristics and trends of low-carbon electricity publications from 1983 to 2021. We found that: (1) the number of publications in this area has shown an overall increase in the past 33 years. (2) the United States is the most powerful country in this field of research. Moreover, with the exception of major developed countries, more and more emerging economies have also joined the research on low-carbon power systems. (3) co-citation analysis and literature clustering characteristics show that the knowledge base in this field is focused on the decomposition of driving factors for carbon dioxide emissions and the optimization of the operation of renewable energy (RE) in low-carbon power systems. (4) the utilization of RE is a hot topic in low-carbon power research. Through this research, global scholars can be provided with the latest overview of valuable low-carbon energy research trends.
Highlights
Slowing down the steady increase of global warming is a common challenge for nations across the world
It should be noted that the H-index and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) factors used in this study to evaluate the relative importance of countries, research institutions, and journals are based on the latest data released by Scimago Lab in 2019
By reviewing the relevant literature, we discover that most of the statements about Low Carbon Development” (LCD) focus on integrating carbon reduction strategies into the current economic development path [26,27], Urban and Nordensvar [28] define it as a development model that is driven towards growth by methods aimed at reducing carbon emissions
Summary
Slowing down the steady increase of global warming is a common challenge for nations across the world. In the energy production sector, reducing CO2 is addressed from a technical perspective and the following directions are proposed: (1) improving the thermal conversion efficiency of fossil fuels; (2) developing an alternative to use non-fossil fuels; (3) CO2 capture and storage (CCS); (4) using RE or nuclear energy [11,12,13] These studies focused on finding solutions to eliminate the negative effects of climate change generated by CO2 emissions from different areas of concern. With the help of bibliometric analysis methods, it is necessary to comprehensively and quantitatively review the progress of global low-carbon energy research and look forward to the frontier research trend, which will help scholars to make wise decisions on the focus of future research Under this background, through the method of bibliometric analysis, this paper comprehensively combs the literature related to low-carbon power collected on Scopus from 1983 to 2021, and visualized the development of the research literature in this field with the help of CiteSpace software.
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