pe-01-2023-10-14

Journal: Pollution and Environment (PE)
Author: Chunhui Chen

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Doi:10.7508/pe.01.2023.10.14

In order to achieve the goal of peaking carbon emissions before 2030, promoting high-quality economic development and continuously improving ecological environment quality is crucial. The spatial disparities in electricity consumption must be fully recognized and the spatial distribution of new energy resources ought to be arranged in a rational manner. In this paper, the Dagum Gini coefficient and subgroup decomposition method are utilized to identify the spatial disparities in power consumption in China based upon inter-provincial power consumption data from 2000 to 2020. Our results demonstrate that: (1) Overall, the spatial disparities in China’s electricity consumption showed a trend of fluctuation and decline during the period of 2000-2020, indicating that the regional disparities in electricity consumption are gradually narrowing. (2) The regional disparity in electricity consumption in eastern China is much greater than in other regions. (3) Inter-regional differences in power consumption are the main source of the overall power consumption distribution, and the difference between the eastern and western regions is the largest, but exhibits a decreasing trend.