Modeling Climate Feedbacks to Energy Demand: The Case of China
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MITJPSPGC_Rpt135.pdf
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Author(s)
Asadoorian, Malcolm O.
Eckaus, Richard S.
Schlosser, C. Adam.
Date Issued
June 2006
Publisher
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Citation
Report no. 135
Series/Report no.
Report no. 135
Abstract
This paper is an empirical investigation of the effects of climate on the use of electricity by consumers and producers in urban and rural areas within China. It takes advantage of an unusual combination of temporal and regional data sets in order to estimate temperature, as well as price and income elasticities of electricity demand. The estimated positive temperature/electric power feedback implies a continually increasing use of energy to produce electric power which, in China, is primarily based on coal. In the absence of countervailing measures, this will contribute to increased emissions, increased atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, and increases in greenhouse warming.
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Abstract in HTML and technical report in PDF available on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change website (http://mit.edu/globalchange/www/).
Subjects
climate and energy
China
panel econometric
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