Modeling climate feedbacks to electricity demand: The case of China

This paper is an empirical investigation of the effects of climate on the use of electricity by consumers and producers in urban and rural areas within China. It takes advantage of an unusual combination of temporal and regional data sets in order to estimate temperature, as well as price and income...

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Published in:Energy economics 2008-07, Vol.30 (4), p.1577-1602
Main Authors: Asadoorian, Malcolm O., Eckaus, Richard S., Schlosser, C. Adam
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied sciences
China
Climate and energy
Climate change
Data analysis
Economic data
Economic models
Elasticity of demand
Electric energy
Electric power
Electricity
Electricity distribution
Electricity generation
Energy
Energy consumption
Energy economics
Energy policy
Environmental effects
Exact sciences and technology
General, economic and professional studies
Income
Panel econometric
Power demand
Pricing
Production
Studies
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Summary:This paper is an empirical investigation of the effects of climate on the use of electricity by consumers and producers in urban and rural areas within China. It takes advantage of an unusual combination of temporal and regional data sets in order to estimate temperature, as well as price and income elasticities of electricity demand. The estimated positive temperature/electric power feedback implies a continually increasing use of energy to produce electric power which, in China, is primarily based on coal. In the absence of countervailing measures, this will contribute to increased emissions, increased atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, and increases in greenhouse warming.
ISSN:0140-9883
1873-6181
DOI:10.1016/j.eneco.2007.02.003