Exploring the trade-offs between electric heating policy and carbon mitigation in China

Jianxiao Wang; Haiwang Zhong; Zhifang Yang; Mu Wang; Daniel M. Kammen; Zhu Liu; Ziming Ma; Qing Xia; Chongqing Kang

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19854-y

Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Exploring the trade-offs between electric heating policy and carbon mitigation in China

Jianxiao Wang,
Haiwang Zhong,
Zhifang Yang,
Mu Wang,
Daniel M. Kammen,
Zhu Liu,
Ziming Ma,
Qing Xia,
Chongqing Kang

Affiliations

Jianxiao Wang: State Key Laboratory of Control and Simulation of Power Systems and Generation Equipment, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University
Haiwang Zhong: State Key Laboratory of Control and Simulation of Power Systems and Generation Equipment, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University
Zhifang Yang: State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment & System Security and New Technology, College of Electrical Engineering, Chongqing University
Mu Wang: State Key Laboratory of Control and Simulation of Power Systems and Generation Equipment, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University
Daniel M. Kammen: Energy and Resources Group, and Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California
Zhu Liu: Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University
Ziming Ma: State Key Laboratory of Control and Simulation of Power Systems and Generation Equipment, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University
Qing Xia: State Key Laboratory of Control and Simulation of Power Systems and Generation Equipment, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University
Chongqing Kang: State Key Laboratory of Control and Simulation of Power Systems and Generation Equipment, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19854-y
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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China has enacted Electric Heating Policy to substitute electricity for in-home combustion for rural residential heating. Here the authors show that this shift would greatly increase national carbon emissions by 101.69–162.89 megatons in 2015 while impeding China’s carbon mitigation process in the future.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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