A multi-regional energy transport and structure model for China’s electricity system

Yaru Zhang, Tieju Ma and Fei Guo

Energy, 2018, vol. 161, issue C, 907-919

Abstract: The imbalance between the distribution of coal resources and electricity demand makes the transport of energy a significant challenge for China’s electricity system. Moreover, with China’s air pollution control policies, more clean energy resources will be used to generate electricity, which will change regional power generation structures and influence the energy transport among regions. In this paper, a multi-regional model is developed to optimize the long-term generation and transmission structure of China’s electricity system by minimizing the accumulative system cost and considering regional resource endowments and air pollution control polices in four key areas. Results indicate that 1) the share of power generation from clean energy will increase from 24% in 2015 to 62% in 2050, 2) the structure of power generation in each region will be influenced by local water resource availability, and the total CO2 emission will be reduced by around 16% in 2030 owing to the air pollution control policies, and 3) by 2050, coal will be mainly transported from the North to the Central, the South, the East and the Northeast, while the electricity will be transmitted to the Central, the South and the East from the Northwest, the North, the Southwest and the Central.

Keywords: China’s electricity system; Energy transport; Electricity transmission; Ultra-high voltage (UHV); System optimization model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (18)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544218314300
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:energy:v:161:y:2018:i:c:p:907-919

DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2018.07.133

Access Statistics for this article

Energy is currently edited by Henrik Lund and Mark J. Kaiser

More articles in Energy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().