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Professor Zhang Guoxing’s Team has Published A Paper in Energy Economics
Recently, LUSM professor Zhang Guoxing’s team has published a paper titled “Electricity production, power generation structure, and air pollution: A monthly data analysis for 279 cities in China (2015-2019)” in Energy Economics. In this study, the team analyze the impact of power production and structure on urban air pollution by analyzing the monthly power generation data of 14,570 power plants in 279 prefecture-level cities from January 2015 to December 2019. The impact of electricity production and power generation structure on air pollution, as well as seasonal and regional heterogeneity was discussed using spatial econometric models. The study confirmed the positive impact of the increasing proportion of renewable energy on air pollution mitigation. This positive impact has a significant spatial spillover effect, with more air quality improvement seen in East, Central, Southwest, and Northwest China. By designing installation development scenarios for renewable energy, this paper projects the air pollution in major regions of China in 2030. The projection indicates that air pollution levels in each region could be lower than 35 μg/m3. In the future, to continuously increase the proportion of renewable energy in power generation and promote the clean transformation of power generation structure is the key to deep emission reduction.
The article was published online on Feb. 26th in Energy Economics with Professor Zhang Guoxing of the School of Management, Lanzhou University as the first author, his graduate student Yang Yang the second author, Professor Su Bin of National University of Singapore the co-author, Nie Yan, research fellow of Institute of Green Finance, Lanzhou University the corresponding author, and professor Duan Hongbo from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences the co-author. LUSM is the first author affiliation of the paper. This research was supported by National Social Science Foundation of China.
Prof. Zhang Guoxing has been focusing on energy and environmental management, environmental regulation policy for a long time. In recent years, he has undertaken a number of projects such as the key projects of NNSF and NSSFC, the general project and youth project of the NNSF, and the 2022 special major science and technology projects of the State Grid Corporation of China. In the past 5 years, Prof. Zhang has published over 30 articles in sub-journal of Nature , Journal of Environment Management, Energy Policy, Journal of Cleaner Production, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Journal of Management Science in China, Chinese Journal of Management Science, Management Review, Systems Engineering-Theory and Practice, Study in Science of Science, China Population, Resources and Environment, etc. The relevant research results were reported by NASDAQ, World Bank, Chinese Social Science NET and other institutions and media.
The Link of the paper: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1g6x-14Z6tlFmL
Energy Economics is the premier field journal for energy economics and energy finance. The journal is a JCR Q1 journal, in category 3 of ABS, ranked 22 out of 661 journals in Economics and Econometrics with an impact factor of 9.252 in 2022. It’s Cite Score is in the forefront of the field, with 11.3 in 2022.
