Revisiting the Effect of Urbanization on Residential Electricity Consumption

IF 4.5 3区管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Journal of Global Information Management Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.4018/jgim.314788

P. Zhu, Boqiang Lin

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Under the background of electrification, it is significant to explore the changes in residential electricity consumption for energy conservation and emission reduction. Based on the staggered difference-in-difference (DID) approach, this paper investigates urbanization's effect on residential electricity consumption using the longitudinal dataset from 2010-2018 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS). It is found that China's urbanization has increased the average electricity consumption by 12.8% with electricity substitution as the main channel. After urbanization, the scale effect of population and area levels does not exist. The authors also find that this positive effect is affected by electricity price (i.e., the higher the price level, the smaller the positive impact). However, as the electric charge is insignificant relative to the income, the moderating effect of price remains small. This indicates that the positive effect of urbanization will not decrease soon in the future unless the residential electricity price system is reformed.

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再论城市化对居民用电的影响

在电气化背景下，探索居民用电变化对节能减排具有重要意义。基于交错差分法，利用2010-2018年中国家庭面板研究的纵向数据集，研究了城市化对居民用电量的影响。研究发现，以电力替代为主要渠道的中国城镇化使平均用电量增长了12.8%。城市化后，人口和面积水平的规模效应不存在。作者还发现，这种积极影响受到电价的影响（即电价水平越高，积极影响越小）。然而，由于电费相对于收入来说微不足道，价格的调节作用仍然很小。这表明，除非对居民电价制度进行改革，否则城市化的积极作用不会很快减弱。

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Journal of Global Information Management INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-

CiteScore

5.80

自引率

14.90%

发文量

118

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