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SUBMITTER: Wang J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7695859 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20201127 1
China has enacted a series of policies since 2015 to substitute electricity for in-home combustion for rural residential heating. The Electric Heating Policy (EHP) has contributed to significant improvements in air quality, benefiting hundreds of millions of people. This shift, however, has resulted in a sharp increase in electric loads and associated carbon emissions. Here, we show that China's EHP will greatly increase carbon emissions. We develop a theoretical model to quantify the carbon emi ...[more]