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School of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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Journal article
Published: 15 July 2021 in Climate Policy
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Coal-fired power plays a critical role in China’s compliance with the Paris Agreement. This research quantifies China’s stranded coal assets under different coal capacity expansion scenarios with an integrated approach and high-precision coal-fired power database. From a top-down perspective, firstly, the pathway of China’s coal-fired power capacity consistent with the global 2°C scenario is outlined and then those stranded coal-fired power plants are identified with a bottom-up perspective. Stranded value is estimated based upon a cash flow algorithm. Results show that if coal capacity stabilizes during 2020–2030, China will only incur a sizeable yet manageable stranded asset loss (USD 55 billion, 2020–2045). However, a continued increase of coal-fired capacity, of another 200∼400 GW, would significantly enlarge the loss by 2.7∼7.2 times. Further, once commissioned coal-fired power would form a resource lock-in effect. Thus, it will miss a short-term opportunity to develop new energy sources and induce a long-term need to invest in coal-fired power negative emission technology. Therefore, halting the construction of new coal-fired plants is a low-cost and no-regret option for China. Key policy insights

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Weirong Zhang; Yiou Zhou; Zhen Gong; Junjie Kang; Changhong Zhao; Zhixu Meng; Jian Zhang; Tao Zhang; Jiahai Yuan. Quantifying stranded assets of the coal-fired power in China under the Paris Agreement target. Climate Policy 2021, 1 -14.

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Weirong Zhang, Yiou Zhou, Zhen Gong, Junjie Kang, Changhong Zhao, Zhixu Meng, Jian Zhang, Tao Zhang, Jiahai Yuan. Quantifying stranded assets of the coal-fired power in China under the Paris Agreement target. Climate Policy. 2021; ():1-14.

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Weirong Zhang; Yiou Zhou; Zhen Gong; Junjie Kang; Changhong Zhao; Zhixu Meng; Jian Zhang; Tao Zhang; Jiahai Yuan. 2021. "Quantifying stranded assets of the coal-fired power in China under the Paris Agreement target." Climate Policy , no. : 1-14.

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Published: 02 June 2021
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China, as the world’s largest carbon dioxide emitter, is bound to assume the important responsibility of energy conservation and emission reduction. To this end, each city, led by representative municipalities directly under the Central Government, must enhance efforts in carbon emission reduction to jointly realize China’s low-carbon transition. Taking four representative municipalities, namely, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing as the case cities, this paper establishes a decomposition analysis for the driving factors of carbon emissions by applying the LMDI method covering data from 2007 to 2017. Kaya identity is used to decompose the effects into eight driving factors: GDP effect, industrial structure effect, energy intensity effect, overall energy structure effect, population effect, urbanization effect, per capita energy consumption effect, urban and rural energy structure effect. The results show that at the municipality level, the driving factors that promote the growth of carbon emissions are the GDP growth effect and the population effect, with the former still being the most important factor in the municipalities with faster economic growth; and industrial structure effect is the most important factor that inhibits the growth of carbon emissions, followed by energy structure effect. The paper thereby puts forward policy implications for China's economic policies.

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Yuanxin Liu; Yajing Jiang; Hui Liu; Bo Li; Jia-Hai Yuan. Driving Factors of Carbon Emissions in China's Municipalities: A LMDI Approach. 2021, 1 .

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Yuanxin Liu, Yajing Jiang, Hui Liu, Bo Li, Jia-Hai Yuan. Driving Factors of Carbon Emissions in China's Municipalities: A LMDI Approach. . 2021; ():1.

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Yuanxin Liu; Yajing Jiang; Hui Liu; Bo Li; Jia-Hai Yuan. 2021. "Driving Factors of Carbon Emissions in China's Municipalities: A LMDI Approach." , no. : 1.

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Published: 01 June 2021 in iScience
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Summary As the country with the world's largest coal power capacity, China is launching a national carbon market. How the carbon pricing may contribute to phasing out China's coal power is a great concern. We collect full-sample data set of China's 4540 operating coal plant units and develop a stochastic Monte-Carlo financial model to assess the financial sustainability of the plant operation. Although China's coal plants have long residual technical lifetime, their operations are close to the break-even state. Even with low carbon price of 50 CNY/tCO2 growing at 4%/y and the permits being fully auctioned, the average residual lifetime of all the plants will be reduced by 5.43 years, and the cumulative CO2 emission from 2020 to 2050 will be reduced by 22.73 billion ton. The spatial disparity in the carbon pricing effect is significant, and the western regions are more vulnerable to the carbon pricing risk than the eastern regions.

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Jianlei Mo; Weirong Zhang; Qiang Tu; Jiahai Yuan; Hongbo Duan; Ying Fan; Jiaofeng Pan; Jian Zhang; Zhixu Meng. The role of national carbon pricing in phasing out China's coal power. iScience 2021, 24, 102655 .

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Jianlei Mo, Weirong Zhang, Qiang Tu, Jiahai Yuan, Hongbo Duan, Ying Fan, Jiaofeng Pan, Jian Zhang, Zhixu Meng. The role of national carbon pricing in phasing out China's coal power. iScience. 2021; 24 (6):102655.

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Jianlei Mo; Weirong Zhang; Qiang Tu; Jiahai Yuan; Hongbo Duan; Ying Fan; Jiaofeng Pan; Jian Zhang; Zhixu Meng. 2021. "The role of national carbon pricing in phasing out China's coal power." iScience 24, no. 6: 102655.

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Published: 11 May 2021 in Utilities Policy
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The structural distortion of the power supply in China has resulted in the dilemma of the coexistence of power overcapacity and peak power gap, which is caused by insufficient compensation to the peaking resources due to irrational power market mechanisms. This study employs a screening curve model to clarify the positions of various power resources in Shandong Province. The study finds that Shandong's peak load should be met by life-extended coal units and demand response, which could save 23.44 billion yuan annually. With an extension in peak-load duration, the supply mix becomes more economical and feasible.

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Yanlei Zhu; Yan Song; Jiahai Yuan. Structural distortion and the shortage of peak-load power resources in China: A screening curve approach and case study of Shandong Province. Utilities Policy 2021, 70, 101224 .

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Yanlei Zhu, Yan Song, Jiahai Yuan. Structural distortion and the shortage of peak-load power resources in China: A screening curve approach and case study of Shandong Province. Utilities Policy. 2021; 70 ():101224.

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Yanlei Zhu; Yan Song; Jiahai Yuan. 2021. "Structural distortion and the shortage of peak-load power resources in China: A screening curve approach and case study of Shandong Province." Utilities Policy 70, no. : 101224.

Research article
Published: 28 March 2021 in International Journal of Green Energy
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During the 21st century, humans are facing a major challenge of environmental degradation, including air pollutions and heatwaves; however, we need to concern about how to achieve sustainable economic development. Therefore, the scope of this study is to analyze the impact of renewable electricity consumption on economic growth and CO2 emissions in newly industrialized countries over the period from 1994 to 2015 by applying the possible presence of cross-sectional dependence test, cross-sectional Augmented , and cross-sectional augmented Im-Pesaran-Shin unit root test, and Pooled Mean Group model. Results reveal that renewable electricity consumption is positive but statistically insignificant in explaining GDP while it contributes to mitigating the CO2 emissions in the long run. The policy implication is that the governments of newly industrialized countries should realize the importance of renewable electricity consumption to ensure sustainable economic development and reduce the heavy reliance on nonrenewable electricity consumption.

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Anam Azam; Muhammad Rafiq; Muhammad Shafique; Muhammad Ateeq; Jiahai Yuan. Investigating the impact of renewable electricity consumption on sustainable economic development: a panel ARDL approach. International Journal of Green Energy 2021, 18, 1185 -1192.

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Anam Azam, Muhammad Rafiq, Muhammad Shafique, Muhammad Ateeq, Jiahai Yuan. Investigating the impact of renewable electricity consumption on sustainable economic development: a panel ARDL approach. International Journal of Green Energy. 2021; 18 (11):1185-1192.

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Anam Azam; Muhammad Rafiq; Muhammad Shafique; Muhammad Ateeq; Jiahai Yuan. 2021. "Investigating the impact of renewable electricity consumption on sustainable economic development: a panel ARDL approach." International Journal of Green Energy 18, no. 11: 1185-1192.

Journal article
Published: 04 March 2021 in Journal of Environmental Management
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Achieving reliable energy supply and environment sustainability whereby mitigating CO2 emissions and promoting sustainable development has become a global effort. Thus, the current study intends to verify the non-linear influence effects of natural gas, nuclear energy, renewable energy and information and communication technology trade on economic growth and carbon dioxide emission in ten leading CO2 emitter countries from 20002016. The panel regression, such as pooled regression, model fixed effect, random effects, robust least squares and panel causation procedures are applied for panel data appraisal. The regression analysis results mention that nuclear energy, renewable energy, and Information and communication technology (ICT-trade) stimulate economic growth, whereas environmental results illustrate that renewable energy and ICT-trade contribute to eliminating CO2 emissions. The causality findings indicate that renewable energy consumption and ICT trade cause economic growth as well as CO2 emissions. Therefore, policymakers should invigorate to exploit renewable energy and achieve the benefits from the significant influence of economic growth and a clean environment through the potential of green ICT-trade.

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Anam Azam; Muhammad Rafiq; Muhammad Shafique; Jiahai Yuan. An empirical analysis of the non-linear effects of natural gas, nuclear energy, renewable energy and ICT-Trade in leading CO2 emitter countries: Policy towards CO2 mitigation and economic sustainability. Journal of Environmental Management 2021, 286, 112232 .

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Anam Azam, Muhammad Rafiq, Muhammad Shafique, Jiahai Yuan. An empirical analysis of the non-linear effects of natural gas, nuclear energy, renewable energy and ICT-Trade in leading CO2 emitter countries: Policy towards CO2 mitigation and economic sustainability. Journal of Environmental Management. 2021; 286 ():112232.

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Anam Azam; Muhammad Rafiq; Muhammad Shafique; Jiahai Yuan. 2021. "An empirical analysis of the non-linear effects of natural gas, nuclear energy, renewable energy and ICT-Trade in leading CO2 emitter countries: Policy towards CO2 mitigation and economic sustainability." Journal of Environmental Management 286, no. : 112232.

Journal article
Published: 16 January 2021 in Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments
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This study analyzes the impact of renewable electricity consumption on economic growth for the panel of 10 newly industrialized countries from 1990 to 2015. For this, panel unit root tests, panel heterogeneous co-integration method, panel Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square and the Granger causality method are employed. The primary outcomes of this study are as follows: (1) panel unit root test and panel co-integration method confirm that the economic growth, renewable electricity consumption, non-renewable electricity consumption, gross capital formation, labor force and trade openness are co-integrated, (2) panel Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square confirms that all studied variables have a positive long-run effect on economic growth, a 1% increase in renewable and non-renewable electricity consumption increased economic growth by 0.095% and 0.017% respectively, (3) the outcomes from Granger causality test also illustrates that there is bidirectional causation between renewable electricity consumption and economic growth in both the short-run and long-run that supports the feedback hypothesis. From the empirical findings, the feedback hypothesis is valid for newly industrialized countries.

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Anam Azam; Muhammad Rafiq; Muhammad Shafique; Haonan Zhang; Muhammad Ateeq; Jiahai Yuan. Analyzing the relationship between economic growth and electricity consumption from renewable and non-renewable sources: Fresh evidence from newly industrialized countries. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 2021, 44, 100991 .

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Anam Azam, Muhammad Rafiq, Muhammad Shafique, Haonan Zhang, Muhammad Ateeq, Jiahai Yuan. Analyzing the relationship between economic growth and electricity consumption from renewable and non-renewable sources: Fresh evidence from newly industrialized countries. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments. 2021; 44 ():100991.

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Anam Azam; Muhammad Rafiq; Muhammad Shafique; Haonan Zhang; Muhammad Ateeq; Jiahai Yuan. 2021. "Analyzing the relationship between economic growth and electricity consumption from renewable and non-renewable sources: Fresh evidence from newly industrialized countries." Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 44, no. : 100991.

Research article
Published: 01 January 2021 in Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja
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This study examines the short- and long-run of the causal correlation between economic growth (G.R.) and renewable electricity generation sources for a panel of 25 developing nations over the period 1990–2017. To do so, second-generation cross-sectional dependence (C.D.) test Im, K.S., Pesaran and Augmented Dickey-Fuller panel unit root test, panel cointegration, autoregressive distributed lag in view of the pooled mean group estimation and panel heterogeneous Dumitrescu Hurlin (2012) causality methods are utilised. The main findings indicate that the positive and significant impact of renewable electricity generation on G.R. shows that renewable electricity generation sources stimulate G.R. in the long run for these selected countries. It is also demonstrated that there is bidirectional causality between renewable electricity generation and G.R. both in the short run and long run. Based on our findings, the feedback hypothesis is valid for developing countries.

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Anam Azam; Muhammad Rafiq; Muhammad Shafique; Jiahai Yuan. Renewable electricity generation and economic growth nexus in developing countries: An ARDL approach. Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja 2021, 34, 2423 -2446.

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Anam Azam, Muhammad Rafiq, Muhammad Shafique, Jiahai Yuan. Renewable electricity generation and economic growth nexus in developing countries: An ARDL approach. Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja. 2021; 34 (1):2423-2446.

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Anam Azam; Muhammad Rafiq; Muhammad Shafique; Jiahai Yuan. 2021. "Renewable electricity generation and economic growth nexus in developing countries: An ARDL approach." Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja 34, no. 1: 2423-2446.

Journal article
Published: 15 December 2020 in Energy
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Internationally, the importance of clean energy is greatly appreciated in the context of sustainable development and to protect the atmosphere. Therefore, the objective of this article is to determine the effect of natural gas, renewable energy and nuclear energy consumption on economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions in the ten highest CO2 emitting countries within a multivariate context for the duration of 1990–2014. The panel co-integration test, panel fully modified ordinary least squares and panel heterogonous Dumitrescu and Hurlin causality assessment are used to analyze the estimation of long-run elasticity along with the course of causality among the variables. The panel co-integration test confirms the existence of a long-run equilibrium correlation among the variables. The findings of the long run elasticity and causality test reveal that natural gas does not contribute to economic growth and CO2 reduction like nuclear energy and renewable energy. However, except for natural gas, the expansion and improvement of renewable energy and nuclear energy are vital to avoid global warming and climate change as well as to promote economic growth.

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Anam Azam; Muhammad Rafiq; Muhammad Shafique; Haonan Zhang; Jiahai Yuan. Analyzing the effect of natural gas, nuclear energy and renewable energy on GDP and carbon emissions: A multi-variate panel data analysis. Energy 2020, 219, 119592 .

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Anam Azam, Muhammad Rafiq, Muhammad Shafique, Haonan Zhang, Jiahai Yuan. Analyzing the effect of natural gas, nuclear energy and renewable energy on GDP and carbon emissions: A multi-variate panel data analysis. Energy. 2020; 219 ():119592.

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Anam Azam; Muhammad Rafiq; Muhammad Shafique; Haonan Zhang; Jiahai Yuan. 2020. "Analyzing the effect of natural gas, nuclear energy and renewable energy on GDP and carbon emissions: A multi-variate panel data analysis." Energy 219, no. : 119592.

Erratum
Published: 19 October 2020 in Energy Policy
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This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Authors with the agreement of the Senior Editor. The article shows substantial overlap with an article submitted and published earlier in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 16 (2012) 5660–5677 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2012.05.046.

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Jiahai Yuan; Yan Xu; Zhaoguang Hu. Retraction notice to “Delivering power system transition in China” [Energy Pol. 50 (November 2012) 751–772]. Energy Policy 2020, 147, 111789 .

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Jiahai Yuan, Yan Xu, Zhaoguang Hu. Retraction notice to “Delivering power system transition in China” [Energy Pol. 50 (November 2012) 751–772]. Energy Policy. 2020; 147 ():111789.

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Jiahai Yuan; Yan Xu; Zhaoguang Hu. 2020. "Retraction notice to “Delivering power system transition in China” [Energy Pol. 50 (November 2012) 751–772]." Energy Policy 147, no. : 111789.

Journal article
Published: 05 October 2020 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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With the deepening of power market reform, distributed power generation is gaining momentum. This paper tests the distributed photovoltaic (DPV) economy under different business models by taking three provinces to stand for typical resource zones. The Internal return rate (IRR) is used to measure the economy, while the improved levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is used to model the generation cost. Three business modes, namely pure producer (all generation sold to the grid), prosumer (self-use and the rest sold to the grid), and peer-to-peer trade (P2P, all generation traded via the grid) are studied. Results show that peer-to-peer trade is more profitable and is a win-win solution to both DPV owner and electricity consumers. However, peer-to-peer trade is possible only when power grid’s role is properly defined in China’s power sector reform. Electricity trading mechanism should be improved to facilitate peer-to-peer trade.

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Peiyun Song; Yiou Zhou; Jiahai Yuan. Peer-to-peer trade and the economy of distributed PV in China. Journal of Cleaner Production 2020, 280, 124500 .

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Peiyun Song, Yiou Zhou, Jiahai Yuan. Peer-to-peer trade and the economy of distributed PV in China. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2020; 280 ():124500.

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Peiyun Song; Yiou Zhou; Jiahai Yuan. 2020. "Peer-to-peer trade and the economy of distributed PV in China." Journal of Cleaner Production 280, no. : 124500.

Journal article
Published: 27 July 2020 in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
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With a high-carbon fuel mix and enormous space for efficiency potential, the power sector is critical to cope with global emission mitigation targets. The climate targets of less than 2 °C and even ambitious 1.5 °C confront China's power sector due to the rising momentum of power demand and the power mix dominated by coal power. Considering the potential carbon-emissions space of the power sector in China, this paper sets the alternative high-share renewable power, 1.5 and 2 °C scenarios that necessitate the zero-emissions and even negative-emissions for the power sector by 2050, and then proposes the pathways and outlines challenges to demonstrate the arduousness and uncertainty of the mega-project of power transition. The results indicate that a package of options is needed for the transition while unconventional bio-energy is the key to a 1.5 °C scenario. Notably, the coal power represents the largest barrier to low-carbon transition owing to the rising installation and massive stranded assets during the long-term reconfiguration of the power sector.

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Haonan Zhang; Xingping Zhang; Jiahai Yuan. Transition of China's power sector consistent with Paris Agreement into 2050: Pathways and challenges. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2020, 132, 110102 .

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Haonan Zhang, Xingping Zhang, Jiahai Yuan. Transition of China's power sector consistent with Paris Agreement into 2050: Pathways and challenges. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 2020; 132 ():110102.

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Haonan Zhang; Xingping Zhang; Jiahai Yuan. 2020. "Transition of China's power sector consistent with Paris Agreement into 2050: Pathways and challenges." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 132, no. : 110102.

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Published: 24 July 2020 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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Electric power is the foundation of the development of national economy, it is necessary to make a comprehensive evaluation of its development. Firstly, 17 secondary electric power development evaluation indexes are established from four aspects: electricity supply, electricity consumption, electrification level and carbon emission. Secondly, based on the cloud model, the subjective evaluation and analysis of the primary evaluation index for the national electric power development are realized. Then, the entropy method is used to objectively evaluate and analyze the secondary evaluation index of national electric power development. And the objective evaluation value of the primary evaluation index for the national electric power development is obtained. Thirdly, the TOPSIS method is used to integrate the subjective evaluation value obtained by the cloud model and the objective evaluation value obtained by the entropy method to comprehensively evaluate the status of national electricity development. Next, by collecting the electric power development evaluation index data of 11 typical countries, the electric power development of 11 countries was evaluated and analyzed by using the CM-EM-TOPSIS method proposed in this paper. From the results of the comprehensive evaluation of China ’s electric power development, it is found that compared with other countries, the sensitivity of the queueing indicator value to the subjective evaluation weight is lower in China. Finally, according to the results of comprehensive evaluation and analysis of electric power development, the managerial implication is explored in China.

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Defu Zhao; Cunbin Li; Qiqing Wang; Jiahai Yuan. Comprehensive evaluation of national electric power development based on cloud model and entropy method and TOPSIS: A case study in 11 countries. Journal of Cleaner Production 2020, 277, 123190 .

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Defu Zhao, Cunbin Li, Qiqing Wang, Jiahai Yuan. Comprehensive evaluation of national electric power development based on cloud model and entropy method and TOPSIS: A case study in 11 countries. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2020; 277 ():123190.

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Defu Zhao; Cunbin Li; Qiqing Wang; Jiahai Yuan. 2020. "Comprehensive evaluation of national electric power development based on cloud model and entropy method and TOPSIS: A case study in 11 countries." Journal of Cleaner Production 277, no. : 123190.

Advanced review
Published: 20 July 2020 in WIREs Energy and Environment
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China's coal‐fired power industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation. From a historical perspective, we conducted a comprehensive assessment of the coal power sector in China, to understand the cause of the transition and where its future lies. Through the interactions among landscape, regime and niches, China's coal‐fired power industry has developed cleaner and more efficient, which positively mitigated the local pollution. Yet the decarbonization in the power sector is unsatisfactory. Due to its dominating role and nature of high‐carbon emitting, the coal power sector has always been a big challenge during China's climate actions. Although the goal of peaking carbon emissions by 2030 demonstrates China's ambitions, expanding coal‐fired power generation capacity hinders climate change mitigation and low‐carbon transition. In this regard, we discuss the guidelines for the future high‐quality coal‐fired power development to provide recommendations for policy‐makers and industry stakeholders. China's coal power sector should commit to the vision of deep decarbonization by 2050. This article is categorized under: Energy and Climate > Economics and Policy Fossil Fuels > Climate and Environment Energy Policy and Planning > Climate and Environment

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Haonan Zhang; Xingping Zhang; Jiahai Yuan. Coal power in China: A multi‐level perspective review. WIREs Energy and Environment 2020, 9, 1 .

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Haonan Zhang, Xingping Zhang, Jiahai Yuan. Coal power in China: A multi‐level perspective review. WIREs Energy and Environment. 2020; 9 (6):1.

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Haonan Zhang; Xingping Zhang; Jiahai Yuan. 2020. "Coal power in China: A multi‐level perspective review." WIREs Energy and Environment 9, no. 6: 1.

Journal article
Published: 17 July 2020 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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While long-term coal transition is clear, the short and medium-term coal-fired power development in China is more uncertain. Therefore, the development pathways of coal-fired power in China after 2020 were widely discussed. Based on the unit-based coal-fired power data, this paper explored the optimized pathway of China's coal-fired power from 2020 to 2030 at the provincial level. Considering national development goals, interprovincial transmissions, and other physical limits in power planning, our model integrated the supply and demand side to assess a reasonable capacity of coal-fired power in 2030. The results and robust analysis indicate that China's coal-fired power capacity in 2030 may stay around 1100 GW. Furthermore, future policies and regulations to deliver this pathway are also proposed.

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Wenhua Zhang; QingYou Yan; Jiahai Yuan; Gang He; Tian-Lih Teng; Meijuan Zhang; Ying Zeng. A realistic pathway for coal-fired power in China from 2020 to 2030. Journal of Cleaner Production 2020, 275, 122859 .

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Wenhua Zhang, QingYou Yan, Jiahai Yuan, Gang He, Tian-Lih Teng, Meijuan Zhang, Ying Zeng. A realistic pathway for coal-fired power in China from 2020 to 2030. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2020; 275 ():122859.

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Wenhua Zhang; QingYou Yan; Jiahai Yuan; Gang He; Tian-Lih Teng; Meijuan Zhang; Ying Zeng. 2020. "A realistic pathway for coal-fired power in China from 2020 to 2030." Journal of Cleaner Production 275, no. : 122859.

Journal article
Published: 15 June 2020 in Sustainability
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: At present, the excess capacity in China’s coke industry can be deployed to utilize some low-rank coal, replacing coking coal with potential economic gains, energy efficiency, and environmental benefits. This study presents a life cycle analysis to model these potential benefits by comparing a metallurgical coke technical pathway with technical pathways of gasification coke integrated with different chemical productions. The results show that producing gasification coke is a feasible technical pathway for the transformation and development of the coke industry. However, its economic feasibility depends on the price of cokes and coals. The gasification coke production has higher energy consumption and CO2 emissions because of its lower coke yield. Generally speaking, using gasification coke to produce F-T oils has higher economic benefits than producing methanol, but has lower energy efficiency and higher carbon emissions.

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Yan Li; Guoshun Wang; Zhaohao Li; Jiahai Yuan; Dan Gao; Heng Zhang. A Life Cycle Analysis of Deploying Coking Technology to Utilize Low-Rank Coal in China. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4884 .

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Yan Li, Guoshun Wang, Zhaohao Li, Jiahai Yuan, Dan Gao, Heng Zhang. A Life Cycle Analysis of Deploying Coking Technology to Utilize Low-Rank Coal in China. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (12):4884.

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Yan Li; Guoshun Wang; Zhaohao Li; Jiahai Yuan; Dan Gao; Heng Zhang. 2020. "A Life Cycle Analysis of Deploying Coking Technology to Utilize Low-Rank Coal in China." Sustainability 12, no. 12: 4884.

Journal article
Published: 31 March 2020 in Resources, Conservation and Recycling
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Concomitant with the changes in power generation mix and power load profile, the power load characteristics have continued to deteriorate, and structural conflicts have occurred between power i.e., ample power generation capacity coupled with short in peaking resources. At the same time, the peak load gap appears. Under these, traditional practice of building more new coal capacity to meet with the short gaps in peak load is not only no longer economically feasible but also unsustainable given the global climate change requirements. This paper uses the screening curve model to plan peak load resources. Five schemes are considered in this paper: new coal units, new gas units, life extended coal units; demand response (DR) and electrochemical energy storage. Varying scenarios considering the cost dynamics of retrofitting existing coal power plants, demand response and energy storage are examined. The results show that: in the case where the duration of peak power gap is 50-100 hours, the most economical choice is demand response or energy storage; regardless of the cost dynamics of energy storage and demand response, when the duration of peak power gap grows longer, extending the service life of old coal power will become the economic optimal choice. In the future, energy policies in China could be concentrated on promoting demand response, exploring the business model for energy storage, strictly controlling the coal power and exploiting the value of existing coal power.

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Yuanxin Liu; Ruijin Zheng; Jiahai Yuan. The economics of peaking power resources in China: Screening curve analysis and policy implications. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 2020, 158, 104826 .

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Yuanxin Liu, Ruijin Zheng, Jiahai Yuan. The economics of peaking power resources in China: Screening curve analysis and policy implications. Resources, Conservation and Recycling. 2020; 158 ():104826.

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Yuanxin Liu; Ruijin Zheng; Jiahai Yuan. 2020. "The economics of peaking power resources in China: Screening curve analysis and policy implications." Resources, Conservation and Recycling 158, no. : 104826.

Research article
Published: 17 February 2020 in Environmental Science and Pollution Research
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Based on the 1.5 °C temperature control target of the Paris Agreement, the two scenarios in this paper which are 1.5 degree scenario (1.5DS) and 2 degree scenario (2DS) aim to analyze the CO2 emission space and power transition path constrains of the power sector in China. This paper then discusses the possible scenarios of 1.5DS and 2DS power planning schemes in 2050. The conclusions are as follows: (1) China's electricity consumption saturation period will occur during the period of 2030-2040; (2) Driven by technology learning, the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) of wind power will have obvious competitive advantages in 2020 and so does solar power in 2030. However, due to the impact of additional grid connection costs of new energy power, economic advantages can only be obtained in the power market after at least 10 years; (3) The installed capacity of coal power in 1.5DS and 2DS will peak in 2020, and CO2 emissions will also peak in 2020, then it shows a trend of decreasing year by year. However, it should be noted that 1.5DS is with possibilities, but with enormous challenges as the same time; (4) Accelerating the green and low carbon transition of power sector must be gradually improving the power market and electricity price mechanism, providing a good transition environment for the power sector, developing emerging power technology, and promoting multi-energy complementary systems.

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Yan Xu; Kun Yang; Jiahai Yuan. China’s power transition under the global 1.5 °C target: preliminary feasibility study and prospect. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2020, 27, 15113 -15129.

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Yan Xu, Kun Yang, Jiahai Yuan. China’s power transition under the global 1.5 °C target: preliminary feasibility study and prospect. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 2020; 27 (13):15113-15129.

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Yan Xu; Kun Yang; Jiahai Yuan. 2020. "China’s power transition under the global 1.5 °C target: preliminary feasibility study and prospect." Environmental Science and Pollution Research 27, no. 13: 15113-15129.

Journal article
Published: 14 February 2020 in Energies
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The long-term anticipation of electricity supply (ELS) and demand has supposed substantial prominence in the elementary investigation to offer sustainable resolutions to electricity matters. In this editorial, an outline of the organization of the electricity segment of Pakistan and analysis of historical supply and demand statistics, an up-to-date position of the contrary set of energy plans is presented. The intention of this analysis is to explore the Granger causality relationship between electricity supply and economic growth (EG) by using a multivariate context with time series statistics covering 1990 to 2015 in Pakistan. Augmented dickey-fuller (ADF) and Philips-Perron (PP) unit root tests indicate that variables are non-stationary and integrated in a similar order (1). Our findings also reveal that variables economic growths (GDP), electricity supply (ELS), investment (INV), and export (EX) are co-integrated. The study also finds the Granger causality runs from EG to ELS deprived of any feedback effect. Therefore, the policy implications from our findings indicate that electricity preservation strategies may be implemented without any economic adverse impacts.

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Anam Azam; Muhammad Rafiq; Muhammad Shafique; Muhammad Ateeq; Jiahai Yuan. Causality Relationship Between Electricity Supply and Economic Growth: Evidence from Pakistan. Energies 2020, 13, 837 .

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Anam Azam, Muhammad Rafiq, Muhammad Shafique, Muhammad Ateeq, Jiahai Yuan. Causality Relationship Between Electricity Supply and Economic Growth: Evidence from Pakistan. Energies. 2020; 13 (4):837.

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Anam Azam; Muhammad Rafiq; Muhammad Shafique; Muhammad Ateeq; Jiahai Yuan. 2020. "Causality Relationship Between Electricity Supply and Economic Growth: Evidence from Pakistan." Energies 13, no. 4: 837.

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Published: 13 February 2020 in Sustainability
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The study was carried out to investigate the empirical effect of a strategic management system on sustainable development by using a balanced scorecard (BSC), as a theoretical lens, and organizational performance, as an intervening variable. The study incorporated a positivism research paradigm in order to address the objective nature of research. As the current study has an empirical and impartial nature, a quantitative method was considered the best method for achieving the research objectives of the study. The study used questionnaires as a data collection instrument. In total, three hundred questionnaires were disturbed among Chinese power companies based in Pakistan. A stratified-random sampling approach was adopted to reach relevant respondents. Partial least squares-structural equation modeling was used for statistical analysis. BSC indicated a positive influence on sustainable development. Additionally, organizational performance depicted partial mediation between the strategic management system and sustainable development. The study underpins the theoretical foundation of a resource-based view (RBV) and a balanced scorecard view of the strategic management system. The findings suggest that non-financial measures have better consequences for employees’ performance, making them ecologically responsive, unlike the financial performance measures used previously. The study suggests taking measures related to wastage and usage of inimitable resources that focus on in-addition rather traditional measures, which can allow sustainable development.

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Muhammad Rafiq; Xingping Zhang; Jiahai Yuan; Shumaila Naz; Saif Maqbool. Impact of a Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System Tool to Improve Sustainable Development: Measuring the Mediation of Organizational Performance through PLS-Smart. Sustainability 2020, 12, 1365 .

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Muhammad Rafiq, Xingping Zhang, Jiahai Yuan, Shumaila Naz, Saif Maqbool. Impact of a Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System Tool to Improve Sustainable Development: Measuring the Mediation of Organizational Performance through PLS-Smart. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (4):1365.

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Muhammad Rafiq; Xingping Zhang; Jiahai Yuan; Shumaila Naz; Saif Maqbool. 2020. "Impact of a Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System Tool to Improve Sustainable Development: Measuring the Mediation of Organizational Performance through PLS-Smart." Sustainability 12, no. 4: 1365.