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This chapter addresses the progress and prospective of energy efficiency (EE) and conservation in China’s power sector. To better understand China’s successes and failures in EE in the power sector, the institutional characteristics of the sector are first briefly analysed. Then key EE drivers and the achievements in the past years are summarised. An energy efficient scenario for the power sector is constructed to probe the EE potential into 2020. Energy conservation potential is estimated at more than 300 Mtce, accompanied with vast co-benefits of CO2 and air pollutants abatement. Policy implications are proposed to fully deploy the potential in the sector.
Dr. Jiahai Yuan, Associate Professor, School of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University; Email: yuanjh126@126.com.
Ms. Chunning Na, Ph.D. Student, School of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University; Ningxia Key Laboratory of Intelligent Sensing for Desert Information, School of Physics & Electrical Information Engineering, Ningxia University.
Dr. Mian Yang, Associate Professor, Economics and Management School, Wuhan University; Center of Population, Resources & Environmental Economics, Wuhan University.
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Yuan, J., Na, C., Yang, M. (2016). Energy Efficiency and Conservation in China’s Power Sector: Progress and Prospects. In: Su, B., Thomson, E. (eds) China's Energy Efficiency and Conservation. SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace, vol 30. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0737-8_2
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