Technology Choice for Reducing NOx Emissions: An Empirical Study of Chinese Power Plants

Teng Ma () and Kenji Takeuchi
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Teng Ma: Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University

No 1644, Discussion Papers from Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University

Abstract: This study investigates the choices of denitration technology in the Chinese thermal power sector. Using a multinominal logit model of the choices among 1,135 boilers in thermal power plants operating in China in 2013, we analyze how the choices were inuenced by government policies, the stringency of national standards, and subsidies for using speci_c technology. The results are as follows. First, China's 12th Five-year Plan might make it more attractive for plants to choose the cheapest denitration technology among the three options examined in this study. Second, technology choices differed signi_cantly by region before the 12th Five-year Plan period. These differences have disappeared, perhaps due to the economic development across all regions of China. Third, electricity price subsidies offered to plants that use denitration equipment might affect their technology choice. These results suggests that plants might choose the cheapest technology available, in order to lower investment costs.

Keywords: technology choice; NOx emissions; China; thermal power sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O33 Q53 Q55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2016-11
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