An analysis of the costs of energy saving and CO 2 mitigation in rural households in China
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Zhang, Weishi; Stern, David; Liu, Xianbing; Cai, Wenjia; Wang, Can
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Households may imperfectly implement energy saving measures. This study identifies two factors resulting in imperfect use of energy-saving technology by households. Households often continue to use old technologies alongside new ones, and the energy-saving technologies have shorter actual lifetimes than their designed lifetimes. These two factors are considered when computing marginal energy conservation cost and marginal CO₂ abatement cost using data collected from a survey of rural households...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, Weishi | |
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dc.contributor.author | Stern, David | |
dc.contributor.author | Liu, Xianbing | |
dc.contributor.author | Cai, Wenjia | |
dc.contributor.author | Wang, Can | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-04T00:55:43Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0959-6526 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/139053 | |
dc.description.abstract | Households may imperfectly implement energy saving measures. This study identifies two factors resulting in imperfect use of energy-saving technology by households. Households often continue to use old technologies alongside new ones, and the energy-saving technologies have shorter actual lifetimes than their designed lifetimes. These two factors are considered when computing marginal energy conservation cost and marginal CO₂ abatement cost using data collected from a survey of rural households in three provinces in China. The results show that there are cost reduction for most space heating technologies, and their marginal abatement cost under full implementation ranges from −60 to 15 USD/t-CO₂, while the marginal abatement cost of cooking technologies ranges from 12 to 85 USD/t-CO₂. The marginal abatement costs of the majority of technologies increased after accounting for the two implementation factors. The marginal abatement cost in the imperfect implementation scenario is higher, with a range of −1 to 15 USD/t-CO₂ for space heating, and 18 to 165 USD/t-CO₂ for cooking. Assuming implementation factors are constant until 2035, annually achievable CO₂ abatement by 2035 is estimated to be 57, 11, and 10 Mt-CO₂/y in Hebei, Guizhou, and Guangxi Provinces. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the China Ministry of Science and Technology in the national 973 program: Equity and justice in climate change and regional development (funding code: A.02.12.00301). This research was partly funded by the General Research Fund of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (14619315) | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | |
dc.rights | © 2017 Elsevier B.V. | |
dc.source | Journal of Cleaner Production | |
dc.title | An analysis of the costs of energy saving and CO 2 mitigation in rural households in China | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 165 | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
local.publisher.url | https://www.elsevier.com/ | |
local.type.status | Accepted Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Stern, D., Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 734 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 745 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.07.172 | |
dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
dc.provenance | http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0959-6526/..."Author's post-print on open access repository after an embargo period of between 12 months and 48 months" from SHERPA/RoMEO site (as at 4/01/18). | |
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