Energy transition index for 282 Chinese cities
Yifan Shen, Xunpeng Shi, Zhibo Zhao, Yongping Sun, Yuli Shan
Abstract: Cities’ transition from fossil-based systems of energy production and consumption to renewable energy sources—the energy transition—is critical to mitigating climate change impact as cities’ energy consumption and CO2 emissions account for two-thirds and over 70% of the world’s total, respectively. Given cities’ heterogeneity, they need specific low-carbon roadmaps instead of one-size-fits-all approaches.
Here, we present an Energy Transition Index (ETI) to characterize the city-level energy transitions for 282 Chinese cities from 2003 to 2019. Following the World Economic Forum,the ETI includes two sub-indexes: the system performance index that measures the maturity of the current energy system to improve system structure and environmental sustainability and the transition readiness index that evaluates the presence of an enabling ecosystem, namely, economic development, capital, technology, and human resources, for effective energy transitions.
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Citation: Yifan Shen, Xunpeng Shi, Zhibo Zhao, Yongping Sun, Yuli Shan, Measuring the low-carbon energy transition in Chinese cities, iScience, 2023, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105803
