Electric Power ›› 2024, Vol. 57 ›› Issue (5): 88-98.DOI: 10.11930/j.issn.1004-9649.202306019

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Carbon Emission Factors and Decoupling Effects of China's Power Industry under the Background of Carbon Peak

Xudong LI1(), Qingbo TAN2, Haochen ZHAO1, Ning QIAO3, Liwei LIU4(), Caixia TAN1, Zhongfu TAN1()   

  1. 1. School of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China
    2. Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg 620002, Russia
    3. State Grid Ningxia Electric Power Co., Ltd., Yinchuan 750001, China
    4. International Business School, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing 100029, China
  • Received:2023-06-05 Accepted:2023-09-03 Online:2024-05-23 Published:2024-05-28
  • Supported by:
    This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Optimization Model and Mechanism of Complementary Operation of Energy System "source, Network, Load, Storage" Under the Vision of Carbon Neutrality, No.72174062)

Abstract:

It is of great practical significance to explore the driving factors and decoupling effects of CO2 emissions in electric power industry, which can not only promote the realization of "dual carbon" goal, but also improve the overall environmental quality in China. In this paper, the CO2 emissions of China's electric power industry from 2004 to 2020 are estimated, and the driving factors and decoupling status of CO2 emissions of the electric power industry are studied with the LMDI model and Tapio decoupling model. On this basis, the CO2 emissions and the decoupling status of the electric power industry during 2021-2030 were analyzed based on the SSA-LSSVM prediction model. The results show that: (1) the economic growth is the main factor of CO2 emission growth in the electric power industry, and the effects of power production structure and power production intensity have an obvious inhibition effects on CO2 emissions; (2) during the whole study period, the CO2 emissions from the power industry was in a weak decoupling status from economic growth; (3) from the predicted value of CO2 emissions from the electric power industry, the CO2 emissions from the electric power industry show an upward trend under the baseline scenario, low-carbon scenario and strong low-carbon scenario, and the CO2 emissions from the electric power industry is in a weak decoupling status from economic growth during 2022-2030. Based on the research results, in order to reduce the CO2 emissions of China's electric power industry, it is proposed to change the economic growth mode to achieve the green and low-carbon economic growth, to develop clean energy to build a new power system, to promote low-carbon technology innovation to realize the decoupling of carbon emissions of electric power industry.

Key words: CO2 emissions, LMDI model, electric power industry, Tapio decoupling