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The effect of extreme temperature on electricity consumption, air pollution, and gross domestic product

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  • Kuei-Ying Huang
  • Yung-ho Chiu
  • Tzu-Han Chang
  • Tai-Yu Lin

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The Report: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) set a goal global warming of 1.5°C on global temperature change. Extreme climate changes have increased the demand for electricity consumption by people and enterprises. In fact, China's total power generation in 2019 exceeded 25% of the world's amount, and its thermal power generation accounted for more than 70%. Although past research on electricity efficiency seldom discusses the issue of climate change, the topic still remains important. This research thus considers extreme temperature days (climate change variable) as exogenous variable and uses the Two-Stage Meta Under exogenous undesirable EBM model to examine power efficiency in China. The results are as follows. (1) In the west only Qinghai's GDP, CO 2 , PM 2.5 , and electricity consumption have technology gap ratio (TGR) efficiency values of 1 in the 5 years. (2) China's electricity consumption has the same trend with the TGR efficiency of CO 2 and is higher than PM 2.5 . (3) The national overall efficiency, meta overall efficiency, and TGR overall efficiency are the worst in China's west region.

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  • Kuei-Ying Huang & Yung-ho Chiu & Tzu-Han Chang & Tai-Yu Lin, 2024. "The effect of extreme temperature on electricity consumption, air pollution, and gross domestic product," Energy & Environment, , vol. 35(1), pages 372-394, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:engenv:v:35:y:2024:i:1:p:372-394
    DOI: 10.1177/0958305X221130131
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