Evaluation of potential co-benefits of air pollution control and climate mitigation policies for China's electricity sector

Wei, Xinyang; Tong, Qing; Magill, Iain; Vithayasrichareon, Peerapat; Betz, Regina

doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104917

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dc.contributor.author	Wei, Xinyang	-
dc.contributor.author	Tong, Qing	-
dc.contributor.author	Magill, Iain	-
dc.contributor.author	Vithayasrichareon, Peerapat	-
dc.contributor.author	Betz, Regina	-
dc.date.accessioned	2021-01-28T13:35:05Z	-
dc.date.available	2021-01-28T13:35:05Z	-
dc.date.issued	2020-10	-
dc.identifier.issn	0140-9883	de_CH
dc.identifier.issn	1873-6181	de_CH
dc.identifier.uri	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/21489	-
dc.description.abstract	Since the rapid industrialisation, local air pollution has become one of China's most important environmental issues. In consequence, increasingly stringent air pollution control policies have been established by the Chinese government. These policies will inevitably affect China's future electric power investment given the key contribution of this sector to air pollution. This sector is also a key contributor to China’s greenhouse gas emissions and hence climate policy efforts. We present a study exploring what impacts of potential interactions and combinations of different policy efforts for local air pollutant control and carbon mitigation have on China's future electricity generation mix. The study utilises a novel generation portfolio model that explicitly incorporates key uncertainties in future technology costs and different policy approaches including carbon pricing and air emissions control. The findings highlight that China can achieve significant reductions for both greenhouse gas and local air pollutant emissions through a combination of climate change and air pollution control policies. Furthermore, there are potentially significant co-benefits from the perspectives of both air pollutant control and carbon mitigation and, notably, that the co-benefit from a sufficient carbon pricing policy to air pollution emission reductions is much stronger than that from stringent air pollutant control policies to carbon mitigation. Specifically, in order to achieve substantial local air pollution and greenhouse gas mitigation from China's electricity sector, it is necessary to close coal-fired power plants rather than merely seeking to clean their air pollution emissions up.	de_CH
dc.language.iso	en	de_CH
dc.publisher	Elsevier	de_CH
dc.relation.ispartof	Energy Economics	de_CH
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	de_CH
dc.subject	Air pollution	de_CH
dc.subject	China	de_CH
dc.subject	Co-benefits	de_CH
dc.subject	Electricity sector	de_CH
dc.subject.ddc	363: Umwelt- und Sicherheitsprobleme	de_CH
dc.title	Evaluation of potential co-benefits of air pollution control and climate mitigation policies for China's electricity sector	de_CH
dc.type	Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift	de_CH
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zhaw.departement	School of Management and Law	de_CH
zhaw.organisationalunit	Zentrum für Energie und Umwelt (CEE)	de_CH
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104917	de_CH
dc.identifier.doi	10.21256/zhaw-21489	-
zhaw.funding.eu	No	de_CH
zhaw.issue	104917	de_CH
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zhaw.volume	92	de_CH
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Wei, X., Tong, Q., Magill, I., Vithayasrichareon, P., & Betz, R. (2020). Evaluation of potential co-benefits of air pollution control and climate mitigation policies for China’s electricity sector. Energy Economics, 92(104917). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104917

Wei, X. et al. (2020) ‘Evaluation of potential co-benefits of air pollution control and climate mitigation policies for China’s electricity sector’, Energy Economics, 92(104917). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104917.

X. Wei, Q. Tong, I. Magill, P. Vithayasrichareon, and R. Betz, “Evaluation of potential co-benefits of air pollution control and climate mitigation policies for China’s electricity sector,” Energy Economics, vol. 92, no. 104917, Oct. 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104917.

WEI, Xinyang, Qing TONG, Iain MAGILL, Peerapat VITHAYASRICHAREON und Regina BETZ, 2020. Evaluation of potential co-benefits of air pollution control and climate mitigation policies for China’s electricity sector. Energy Economics. Oktober 2020. Bd. 92, Nr. 104917. DOI 10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104917

Wei, Xinyang, Qing Tong, Iain Magill, Peerapat Vithayasrichareon, and Regina Betz. 2020. “Evaluation of Potential Co-Benefits of Air Pollution Control and Climate Mitigation Policies for China’s Electricity Sector.” Energy Economics 92 (104917). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104917.

Wei, Xinyang, et al. “Evaluation of Potential Co-Benefits of Air Pollution Control and Climate Mitigation Policies for China’s Electricity Sector.” Energy Economics, vol. 92, no. 104917, Oct. 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104917.