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- Wei, Wendong, et al.
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Embodied greenhouse gas emissions from building China's large-scale power transmission infrastructure
- 2021
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Ingår i: Nature Sustainability. - : NATURE RESEARCH. - 2398-9629. ; 4:8, s. 739-747
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- China has built the world's largest power transmission infrastructure by consuming massive volumes of greenhouse gas-(GHG-) intensive products such as steel. A quantitative analysis of the carbon implications of expanding the transmission infrastructure would shed light on the trade-offs among three connected dimensions of sustainable development, namely, climate change mitigation, energy access and infrastructure development. By collecting a high-resolution inventory, we developed an assessment framework of, and analysed, the GHG emissions caused by China's power transmission infrastructure construction during 1990-2017. We show that cumulative embodied GHG emissions have dramatically increased by more than 7.3 times those in 1990, reaching 0.89 GtCO(2)-equivalent in 2017. Over the same period, the gaps between the well-developed eastern and less-developed western regions in China have gradually narrowed. Voltage class, transmission-line length and terrain were important factors that influenced embodied GHG emissions. We discuss measures for the mitigation of GHG emissions from power transmission development that can inform global low-carbon infrastructure transitions.
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