Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Displacement efficiency of alternative energy and trans-provincial imported electricity in China

  • Yuanan Hu,
  • Hefa Cheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14590
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Alternative energy is widely believed to proportionally displace fossil fuels. Here, the authors analyse displacement values for China between 1995 and 2014 and show that alternative energy, primarily hydropower, displaced ∼1/4 of a unit of fossil electricity, twice the global average.