Water Use In China S Power Sector
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Water Management In China S Power Sector
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Author : Xiawei Liao
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-11-04
Water Management In China S Power Sector written by Xiawei Liao and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-04 with Business & Economics categories.
This book examines water resource management in China’s electric power sector and the implications for energy provision in the face of an emerging national water crisis and global climate change. Over 75% of China’s current electricity comes from coal. Coal-fired power plants are reliant on water, with plants using significant volumes of water every year, yet water resources are unevenly distributed. In the face of serious environmental concerns and increasing electricity demand, this book examines the environmental impacts that coal power plants have on water resources and the impact water availability has on the electricity sector in a country with a significant number of water-scarce provinces and a large number of power plants located on inland waterways. It discusses the water impacts and constraints for transforming the electric power sector away from coal to renewable energy sources, such as hydropower and concentrated solar power. The book adopts a mix-method approach, combining a plant-level quantitative analysis on water impacts and dependencies in China’s electricity sector and a qualitative analysis of relevant institutions in both sectors. By reviewing policy and institution cases in China’s water and electricity sectors, the book provides important recommendations calling for coordinated institutions to shift away from the current paradigm where water and electricity are governed independently. Enriching the water-energy nexus literature, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars working on water resource management, energy industries and Chinese environmental policy, as well as policymakers and practitioners in those fields.
Water Use In China S Power Sector
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Water Use In China S Power Sector written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Electric power-plants categories.
This brief by China Water Risk and IRENA examines the expected impact of China's power sector on water and climate in 2030. Building on plans announced at the COP21 climate change conference in Paris, and earlier analyses by China Water Risk and IRENA, it assesses the impact of different options for China's power mix in 2030 on water use and carbon emissions. As the findings show, decarbonising the power sector through renewables would also yield benefits in areas related to water. By 2030, the combination of renewables and improved plant cooling technologies can reduce water-intensity in Chinese power generation by as much as 42%, while reducing emissions-intensity by up to 37%. To realise these benefits, the share of renewables must increase in line with national climate mitigation objectives and the REmap options outlined by IRENA.
Water Management In China S Coal Power Sector
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Author : Xiawei Liao
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020
Water Management In China S Coal Power Sector written by Xiawei Liao and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Business & Economics categories.
"This book examines water resource management in China's electric power sector and the implications for energy provision in the face of an emerging national water crisis and global climate change. Over seventy five percent of China's current electricity comes from coal. Coal-fired power plants are reliant on water, with plants using significant volumes of water every year, yet water resources are unevenly distributed. In the face of serious environmental concerns and increasing electricity demand, this book examines the environmental impacts coal power plants have on water resources and the impact water availability has on the electricity sector in a country with a significant number of water-scarce provinces and a large number of power plants located on inland waterways. It discusses the water impacts and constraints for transforming the electric power sector away from coal to renewable energy sources, such as hydropower and Concentrated Solar Power. The book adopts a mix-method approach combining a plant-level quantitative analysis on water impacts and dependencies in China's electricity sector and a qualitative analysis of relevant institutions in both sectors. By reviewing policy and institution cases in China's water and electricity sectors, the book provides important recommendations calling for coordinated institutions shifting away from the current paradigm where water and electricity are governed independently. Enriching the water-energy nexus literature, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars working on water resource management, energy industries and Chinese environmental policy, as well as policymakers and practitioners in those fields"--
Water Energy Nexus In The People S Republic Of China And Emerging Issues
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Author : Pradeep Perera
language : en
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Release Date : 2017-12-01
Water Energy Nexus In The People S Republic Of China And Emerging Issues written by Pradeep Perera and has been published by Asian Development Bank this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Water and energy are both valuable resources and indispensable for human society and economic development. By nature, water and energy are interlinked. Water plays a critical role in the generation of electricity for cooling of thermal power plants and in hydropower, as well as in the production of fossil fuels such as coal; energy is required to treat, distribute, and for wastewater treatment. Choices made in either of the sectors may have unintended and often negative implications on the other sector. This report analyzes the trade-off between the two sectors in the context of the People's republic of China and proposes recommendations to ensure that the choices made are sustainable in the long run.
Future Conflicts Of Water Demands And Availability In China S Power Sector
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Author : Xiawei Liao
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Future Conflicts Of Water Demands And Availability In China S Power Sector written by Xiawei Liao and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Electric power production categories.
Opportunities To Reduce Water Use And Greenhouse Gas Emissions In The Chinese Power Sector
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Author : Deborah Seligsohn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Opportunities To Reduce Water Use And Greenhouse Gas Emissions In The Chinese Power Sector written by Deborah Seligsohn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Electric power categories.
Life Cycle Water Consumption Embodied In Inter Provincial Electricity Transmission In China
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Author : Like Wang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Life Cycle Water Consumption Embodied In Inter Provincial Electricity Transmission In China written by Like Wang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
The interdependence between water and energy is growing significant accompany with the increasing demand on both water and energy in China. It is crucial to quantify the water footprints and total water consumption embodied in the energy sector of production and transmission for improving effective of water resource management and policy making. From the life-cycle perspective, water consumptions in the thermal, hydro-, nuclear, wind and solar power generation are quantified using a mixed-unit input-output model. Then, the water footprint (WF) and scare water footprint (SWF) in the electricity transmissions were analyzed in China. As the results shown, the WF totaled was 2.99Í109(Gm3) in 2013, and the WF in upstream phase accounted for 12.47%. It is also revealed that total inter-provincial WF from thermal, hydro-, nuclear, wind and solar power contributed 28.87%, 71.02%, 0.03%, 0.08% and 0.01% to the total, respectively. At the provincial level, Inner Mongolia is the largest exports of thermal and wind WFs, and Sichuan, Guangdong and Gansu are the largest exporters of hydro-, nuclear and solar WFs. Based on Water Stress Index, Shanxi (92.3 million m3), Gansu (90.9 million m3) and Inner Mongolia (65.4 million m3) rank the top three provinces for the exporters of SWF. The top three largest single SWF flows are from Shanxi to Hebei (72.2 million m3), Ningxia to Shandong (35.8 million m3) and Gansu to Qinghai (40.68 million m3). In the foreseeable future, electricity transmission in China will be dominated by transferring from West to East, and the ongoing long-distance electricity transmission projects in China will enlarge the scale of SWF outflows from northwestern regions and potentially increase their water stress. The water-energy nexus requires strategic and coordinated implementations of different energy development among geographical regions, as well as trade-off analysis between rising energy demand and water use sustainability.
China S Power Sector Decarbonization
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Author : Anne-Perrine Martine Avrin (Louise)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
China S Power Sector Decarbonization written by Anne-Perrine Martine Avrin (Louise) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
China has become the “world’s factory” and lifted up several millions of people out of poverty through decades of economic reforms. However, this socio-economic development, fueled by coal, has heavily impacted the energy landscape and the environment. Today, China is both the global largest polluter and largest developer of clean energy systems. The unprecedented extent of the country’s power sector challenges and opportunities requires to refine current capacity planning models to better inform policy making. Focusing on climate urgency, this study contributes to filling this need by proposing new modeling frameworks. These models offer a fine-grain analysis of China’s power sector decarbonization potential, by grounding long-term electricity mix expansion planning into inter-sectoral development. Using large datasets of technical, economic and social factors, levers of the clean power transition are analyzed by quantifying and comparing their decarbonization potential, technical feasibility, and cost efficiency over time and across regions and resources. The first lever lies in the coordinated expansion of a low-carbon electricity grid, resilient to renewable energy intermittency and disparities in space and time between energy resources and demand. The high-resolution model SWITCH-China is used to explore optimal capacity expansion pathways for China’s electricity mix under various low-carbon policies. Results show that, while natural gas can become a bridge between the current coal-dominated grid and a future clean electricity mix, a deep decarbonization scenario mostly relies on the concomitant deployment of nuclear—inland, encouraged by advanced nuclear technology development—, wind, solar, energy storage, coal with carbon capture and storage, and an expanded transmission network. Meeting this long-term decarbonization goal increases electricity costs significantly compared to an unconstrained scenario. A modular approach, adaptable to traditional cost-minimizing tools used by planning agencies, is proposed to reduce uncertainty of future technological costs as well as costs resulting from electricity generation intermittency. The model finds that there exist alternatives to the least-cost strategy, which present slightly higher overall electricity costs, but much lower risks. In particular, given the predominance of fossil fuel in the current electricity mix, the deployment of low-carbon systems decreases the overall risk on future costs through diversification, even by accounting for increased operational complexity resulting from renewable energy intermittency. The second lever is the integration of linkages between power and water supply into the optimization framework, as China currently faces both severe water shortages and severe water pollution. Results show that, while total costs of the South to North Water Transfer Project are 2.5 times lower than nuclear desalination, the latter emits six times less CO2. In addition, fresh water from nuclear desalination is shown to be affordable even to the poorest households. Challenges posed by the construction and operation of interregional water diversion suggest that it should only be used in dry inland areas, while low-carbon desalination could be developed at larger scale near coastal economic centers. The DESEC model is developed to explore controllable desalination, powered by nuclear, wind, or solar energy, as a mean to alleviate water scarcity in coastal regions while enabling the wide deployment of a low-curtailment clean power base. Desalination, used as a deferrable load, can transform two low-value products, seawater and excess power from non-dispatchable energies, in a high-value product, fresh water. The DESEC model finds that the North China Grid region’s entire water deficit—61.4 billion m3—can be met entirely by deferrable desalination with a total cost of about $1.5/m3, less than the global average water price. Analyses conclude that there exist local alternatives to current national-scale power and water diversion projects, more adapted to regional characteristics, less prone to risks and disruptions. The third lever is the electrification of urban passenger cars, as the sector is poised for massive expansion in the next decade. Findings show that the near-term deployment of electric vehicles cannot be enabled by technology cost decrease alone. If the current impact from favorable policy is maintained but not amplified, CO2 emissions from urban passenger cars will peak around 2040, or ten years past the official 2030 carbon peak target. In fact, although it demonstrates higher costs in the near term, large-scale vehicle electrification is the least-cost, least-CO2-emission pathway for China’s urban transportation expansion in the long run. Generally, model results reveal that massive investment is needed in R&D and infrastructure capacity deployment, and that utilities and institutions must be reformed to manage resources rationally, hand-in-hand. Many of the studied decarbonization options have not reached a mature stage or have not been deployed at utility-scale today, and future work is required to better account for modeling and data uncertainty. Yet, models developed, used and presented in this study all reveal the existence of viable, cost-efficient options to enable meaningful decarbonization while alleviating water scarcity and air pollution. These strategies can only be achieved by combining central-scale coordination with local-scale implementation, to take advantage of China’s diverse and rich territory while minimizing risks. This dissertation provides new approaches for identifying realistic, affordable capacity expansion pathways, rigorously designed by mathematical optimization and large datasets, to reduce CO2 emissions related to the power sector in line with climate targets. The impact that China will have on climate change and its ability to ensure its long-term sustainability will depend on actual decisions and actions undertaken by governmental and private entities. The success of the clean energy transition is contingent on the country’s ability to encourage technological, economic and institutional innovation.
Water Energy Nexus In The People S Republic Of China And Emerging Issues
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Author : Asian Development Bank
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-12
Water Energy Nexus In The People S Republic Of China And Emerging Issues written by Asian Development Bank and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12 with Social Science categories.
This report analyzes the trade-off between the two sectors in the context of the People's Republic of China and proposes recommendations to ensure that the choices made are sustainable in the long run. Water and energy are both valuable resources and indispensable for human society and economic development. By nature, water and energy are interlinked. Water plays a critical role in the generation of electricity for cooling of thermal power plants and in hydropower, as well as in the production of fossil fuels such as coal; energy is required to treat, distribute, and for wastewater treatment. Choices made in either of the sectors may have unintended and often negative implications on the other sector.
China S Resources Energy And Sustainable Development 2020
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Author : Energy and Sustainable Development
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-02-16
China S Resources Energy And Sustainable Development 2020 written by Energy and Sustainable Development and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-16 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book explores sustainable development from the perspective of resources and energy, based on China’s practical experience and cross-disciplinary research. It focuses on major challenges, key solutions and policy recommendations, and studies and explores seven important themes of resources, energy and sustainable development, including: 1) China’s low-carbon energy transition, 2) China’s urbanization and low-carbon development, 3) China’s low-carbon action in cities, 4) China’s low-carbon power transition, 5) China’s water resources management, 6) electric vehicle development and key metal resources and 7) China’s low-carbon development of the iron & steel industry. This book contributes to a more integrated understanding of many themes and their relationships in the area of resources, energy and sustainable development and guides the related policy and management.