The impacts of coal plants relocation on the concentration of fine particulate matter in China

Dunguo Mou, Matthew Herington and Oluwasola E Omoju

Energy & Environment, 2016, vol. 27, issue 6-7, 741-754

Abstract: The air pollution situation in the northern part of China has become a threat to the current status of China’s energy consumption. This has created pressure to relocate coal plants to the western section of the country. We apply a spatial panel data method to empirically examine the relationship between fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) concentration, precipitation and wind speed by using the sample data of 50 cities over 11 months. Based on the empirical parameters, the paper simulates the potential impacts of the proposed coal plants and the coal plants currently under construction for the PM 2.5 concentrations across all cities once these coal plants are operational. The results show that the new capacities will increase PM 2.5 concentrations in northwest and northeast China, but at acceptable levels and lower than levels in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and Shandong.

Keywords: PM2.5; coal plants relocation; spatial panel data method; power generating technologies; emission control (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0958305X16667349 (text/html)

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:sae:engenv:v:27:y:2016:i:6-7:p:741-754

DOI: 10.1177/0958305X16667349

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Energy & Environment
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().