Revisiting the proportion of clean household energy users in rural China by accounting for energy stacking

Guofeng,Shen1; Ran,Xing1; Yousong,Zhou1; Xiaoqiao,Jiao1,2; Zhihan,Luo1; Rui,Xiong1; Wenxuan,Huang1; Yanlin,Tian1; Yuanchen,Chen3; Wei,Du4; Huizhong,Shen2; Hefa,Cheng1; Dongqiang,Zhu1; Shu,Tao1,2

2022-01

10.1016/j.horiz.2022.100010

Sustainable Horizons   影响因子和分区

2772-7378

The household energy mix, especially the sustainable use of affffordable clean energy, is an important part of society and is closely related to many sustainable development goals. The proportion of the population mainly using solid fuels or clean energy is widely considered, but multiple energy carriers (energy stacking) used in the real world result in considerable biases in the results in which only primary energy was counted. From a nation  wide survey on the household energy mix in rural China, the present study revealed that in 2012, nationally, the average numbers of cooking energy carriers and heating energy sources were 3.4 and 2.5 per household, increasing from 2.0 and 2.2 per household in 1992, respectively. Within the country, the spatial difffference in

the household number of household energy carriers was negatively associated with the family income level and explained by the affffordability and faster clean energy transition. In 2012, the proportion of people extensively using gas or electricity for cooking was 32% and 27% for heating, respectively. The proportion increased sub stantially over time from 1992 to 2012, indicating an obvious switch to cleaner household energy sources. The absolute number of rural people using clean-household energy was increasing, despite the reduced rural popula tion under urbanization. The proportion of people using clean-household energy for more than half of the time per year for cooking and heating was 56% and 32% , respectively. The results were higher than the proportion

of people extensively using clean-household energy, and the difffference was larger with more types of difffferent energy sources used in households, particularly for cooking. It is imperative to consider multiple energy uses in household surveys and to call for more fifield work regarding household energy mix transitions as an integral part of sustainable development research.

Residential Energy Mix Energy Stacking Clean-energy User Proportion Spatiotemporal Characteristics Rural Household

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2022

1.Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing
2.School of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen
3.College of Environment, Research Centre of Environmental Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou
4.Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science of the Ministry of Education, School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai

Guofeng,Shen,Ran,Xing,Yousong,Zhou,et al. Revisiting the proportion of clean household energy users in rural China by accounting for energy stacking[J]. Sustainable Horizons,2022,1(1):100010.

Guofeng,Shen.,Ran,Xing.,Yousong,Zhou.,Xiaoqiao,Jiao.,Zhihan,Luo.,...&Shu,Tao.(2022).Revisiting the proportion of clean household energy users in rural China by accounting for energy stacking.Sustainable Horizons,1(1),100010.

Guofeng,Shen,et al."Revisiting the proportion of clean household energy users in rural China by accounting for energy stacking".Sustainable Horizons 1.1(2022):100010.