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Thermodynamics
Li Gao, Ruonan Li, Yingdan Mei, Xiaoli Zhao
Summary: This study measures the technical efficiency of coal-fired power enterprises in a large Chinese power generation group from 2010 to 2015 using stochastic frontier analysis. The study provides a detailed analysis of technical efficiency in terms of return to scale, operation hours, and regional characteristics. The findings suggest that there is room for improvement in the technical efficiency of coal-fired power enterprises, and the impact of return to scale, operation hours, and regional characteristics varies. Reducing coal consumption and increasing equity are important ways to improve technical efficiency.
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Engineering, Environmental
Tong Gao, Pengfei Jin, Dan Song, Bin Chen
Summary: This paper tracked the carbon footprint of coal-fired power plants in China from 2000 to 2020, finding that carbon emissions increased annually while emissions from the construction process peaked in 2006. The carbon footprint gaps between western and eastern provinces have narrowed over the past 20 years.
RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING
(2022)
Article
Business
Limin Du, Yunguo Lu, Chunbo Ma
Summary: This paper proposes a new model to investigate the carbon efficiency and carbon abatement cost of coal-fired power plants in China. The results show substantial potential for carbon performance improvement in China's coal-fired power plants, with non-state-owned enterprises having higher carbon efficiency and lower carbon abatement cost. The findings provide new insights for understanding the recent dynamics of the carbon performance of China's coal-fired power plants and have important policy implications.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Jing-Li Fan, Mao Xu, Shijie Wei, Shuo Shen, Yujie Diao, Xian Zhang
Summary: Carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) is seen as crucial for deep CO2 reduction in China's power sector. The study found that saline aquifers and oil fields in major sedimentary basins have enormous storage potential, with transport distance being a key factor affecting CO2 sequestration.
RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jing-Li Fan, Shijie Wei, Shuo Shen, Mao Xu, Xian Zhang
Summary: To mitigate global warming, carbon capture and storage (CCS) is essential, especially for China's heavy reliance on coal-fired power plants. Assessing the CO2 storage capacity in cities can help identify suitable locations for CCS projects and effectively reduce emissions.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GREENHOUSE GAS CONTROL
(2021)
Article
Economics
Qingyang Wu, Chang Tan, Daoping Wang, Yongtao Wu, Jing Meng, Heran Zheng
Summary: China's coal-fired power plants account for more than half of the world's capacity. This paper examines the impact of China's carbon trading pilot program on emissions regulation using data from 1269 Chinese coal-fired power plants between 2009 and 2019. The results indicate that increasing carbon prices have the potential to significantly reduce emissions intensity, particularly for high-cost plants in China's midland and western regions. The study suggests that higher carbon prices may prompt utilities to retire high-emission power plants earlier than planned, resulting in lower emissions intensity. The average retirement years of China's power plants could be shortened by 1.8001 and 1.6862 years under different scenarios.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Zhao Xin-Gang, Zhou Ying
Summary: To cope with global climate change and energy security, the low-carbon energy transition has become a necessary choice for reducing carbon emissions and adjusting energy structures. This paper analyzes the current situation, implementation effects, and problems of renewable energy policy in China through theoretical analysis, literature analysis, and data analysis. The study finds that China's renewable energy industry policy faces several issues and cannot effectively support the low-carbon energy transition.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Business
Ning Zhang, Xuhui Huang, Yunxiao Liu
Summary: Estimating the shadow price of CO2 emissions for China's coal-fired power plants from 2005 to 2010 using a conventional approach combined with quantile regression resulted in lower average estimates compared to ordinary least square regression and standard SFA. Coastal provinces and municipalities were found to have higher shadow prices of CO2 emissions, indicating a higher cost for low-carbon transition in these regions.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2021)
Article
Economics
Tomoaki Nakaishi, Hirotaka Takayabu, Shogo Eguchi
Summary: This study analyzed the environmental efficiency of 104 coal-fired power plants in China by considering multiple undesirable outputs and heterogeneity among power generation companies. The results showed that inefficient PM2.5 and SO2 emissions were the main sources of environmental inefficiency for many plants. Furthermore, it was found that managerial gaps within the same power generation company accounted for a larger proportion of total environmental inefficiency in most cases.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Tomoaki Nakaishi, Shigemi Kagawa, Hirotaka Takayabu, Chen Lin
Summary: This study found that Chinese coal-fired power plants have significant potential to reduce coal consumption and mitigate CO2 emissions through technological improvement. The study suggests the Chinese government create a power distribution structure that generates electricity using technologically efficient equipment in areas rich in coal resources and distributes the generated electricity to other areas of the country.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Xiaoxi Yan, Yuan Xu
Summary: This study examines the compliance and enforcement of SO2 mitigation policies in China's coal-fired power plants using OMI data, finding significant reductions in SO2 emissions in 2008 and post-2014, with slight rebounds in 2006 and 2011 possibly due to relaxed enforcement and compliance. Policy enforcement and emissions reduction varied significantly across provinces.
ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Thermodynamics
Bo Sun, Boyang Fan, Chun Wu, Jingdong Xie
Summary: This study explores incentive mechanisms to promote the development of Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) projects in China's coal-fired power plants (CFPPs). The findings suggest that financial incentives, such as clean electricity price subsidy and initial investment subsidy, have different impacts on CFPPs, with the government preferentially implementing the latter. Non-financial incentives, such as extra electricity quota, have a larger impact on CCUS project development. The frequency and magnitude of policy and subsidy adjustments also affect the success of CCUS projects.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Shuyang Liu, Hangyu Li, Kai Zhang, Hon Chung Lau
Summary: To achieve carbon neutrality, China must address the CO2 emissions from its power sector. This study evaluates the economic benefits of using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology to decarbonize China's coal-fired power plants. The results show that CCS can reduce the cost of electricity generation, especially when the coal price is low and the CO2 transportation distance is short.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Guangzhi Yin, Maosheng Duan
Summary: This study proposes a pricing mechanism for deep peak regulation (DPR) service, which effectively promotes the integration of renewable energy at minimum cost by motivating coal-fired power plants to provide the service.
Article
Thermodynamics
Congyu Wang, Jiwei Song
Summary: The operational flexibility of coal-fired combined heat and power plants is crucial for accommodating high levels of renewable energy in the power grid. This study compares two renovations, high back-pressure (HBP) renovation and low-pressure turbine zero power output (LZPO) renovation, in terms of flexibility, energy, and exergy performance. The results show that LZPO renovation has more potential to improve the accommodation of renewable energy and energy efficiency, although it has higher exergy loss compared to HBP renovation. The new renovated plant also enhances the peak-shaving capacity and heating capacity, increases energy utilization efficiency, and reduces coal consumption for power generation.
Article
Energy & Fuels
Bo Li, Minyou Chen, Qiang Li, Tingli Cheng, Ziming Ma, Shujun Zhang, Xiao Qian
Article
Economics
Bo Li, Ziming Ma, Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez, Alex Lathem, Natalie Fedorova, Gang He, Haiwang Zhong, Minyou Chen, Daniel M. Kammen
Summary: The deployment of renewable electricity and electric vehicles offers a unique opportunity to accelerate decarbonization in both China's power and transportation sectors. By utilizing the SWITCH-China model, the impacts of EVs on the power sector were evaluated, showing that large-scale EV deployment increases the need for generation capacity, with smart charging strategies reducing the additional storage capacity required. The study demonstrates that smart charging strategies can save costs compared to unmanaged charging and can help China meet its ambitious carbon targets.
Article
Energy & Fuels
Xiaoli Zhang, Xueqin Cui, Bo Li, Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez, Daniel M. Kammen, Ji Zou, Ke Wang
Summary: To achieve the carbon neutrality target by 2060, China needs to phase out existing coal-fired power plants by 2050. By developing models to assess job losses and finding that the renewable energy sector can offset these losses, there is potential for a successful transition to clean energy.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jun Dong, Dongran Liu, Xihao Dou, Bo Li, Shiyao Lv, Yuzheng Jiang, Tongtao Ma
Summary: This study reviews existing research on the power market and explores key issues related to the new power system, aiming to inspire further research in China's power sector and promote safe, low-carbon, and sustainable development in the power industry.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Leiqi Zhang, Yanjie Yu, Bo Li, Xiao Qian, Shujun Zhang, Xiangjin Wang, Xuesong Zhang, Minyou Chen
Summary: This paper proposes a piece-wise linear battery aging cost model with an accurate estimate of battery life degradation to extend battery life and improve battery profits. By modifying the Arrhenius law and finding the derivative of battery life degradation, an accurate estimation of the battery life degradation rate is achieved. A piece-wise linearization method is also introduced to reduce computation complexity.
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Bo Li, Minyou Chen, Ziming Ma, Gang He, Wei Dai, Dongran Liu, Chi Zhang, Haiwang Zhong
Summary: The deployment of renewable energy sources, power-to-gas (P2G) systems, and zero-emission vehicles provides a synergistic opportunity to accelerate the decarbonization of both power and transportation system. This article investigates the prospects of implementing hydrogen P2G technology in coupling the power system and the transportation system. The study proposes a coordinated long-term planning model of integrated power and transportation system (IPTS) at the regional scale to simulate the power system balance and travel demand balance simultaneously.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Tingli Cheng, Zhile Yang, Bingbing Dong, Bo Li, Yingying Zhang, Liqiang Zeng, Weilong Huang
Summary: This paper emphasizes the importance of coordinating dynamic dispatch with demand response (DR) to increase benefits in distribution network areas. It introduces a dynamic multiobjective optimal dispatch (DMOD) problem and proposes a hybrid teaching-learning multiobjective particle swarm optimization algorithm (HTL-MOPSO) to solve it. The comprehensive numerical results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach and the practical benefits of DR to customers and distribution network operators.
JOURNAL OF ENERGY ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Bo Li, Minyou Chen, Daniel M. Kammen, Wenfa Kang, Xiao Qian, Leiqi Zhang
Summary: This study introduces a stochastic model using national household travel survey data to analyze the impact of electric vehicles (EVs) on China's electricity load profiles. It identifies key influencing factors and evaluates different EV charging strategies, finding that replacing 60% of gasoline vehicles with EVs by 2050 will increase electricity demand by 4.5%, with unmanaged charging strategies leading to an 8.2% increase in national peak loads.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Wenfa Kang, Minyou Chen, Bo Li, Feixiong Chen, Wei Lai, Houfei Lin, Bo Zhao
Proceedings Paper
Automation & Control Systems
Bo Li, Minyou Chen, Tingli Cheng, Ya Li, Muhammad Arshad Shehzad Hassan, Ruilin Xu, Tao Chen
2018 UKACC 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTROL (CONTROL)
(2018)