naa a22 4500 51073166X CHVBK 20180411082955.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11708-013-0280-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11708-013-0280-8 Estimation of environmental effects of photovoltaic generation in North-west China [Elektronische Daten] [Mengjia Ren, Anastasia Shcherbakova] In estimating emissions reductions brought about by renewables in China, much of existing research assumes that renewables displace coal power. In this paper, this assumption is challenged and the potential environmental effects of photovoltaic (PV) power in North-west China are reevaluated when the marginal generator actually being displaced is taken into account. The annual PV power generation in the North-west Grid is estimated, in this paper, to be as high as 17900GW·h in 2015, roughly equaling to the output of 1.5 nuclear power plants in the US today. The total associated emission reduction in 2015 will at most be 0.36 percent of SO2 and 0.25 percent of NO x emissions from their 2010 levels in China. Further, PV power may render no emissions reduction at all if it displaces hydropower, which is often used to meet peak demand in the North-west Grid in China. These results imply that a more cost-effective area of focus in the shortterm may be on desulfurization and denitrification technologies for coal plants. Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013 photovoltaic (PV) nationallicence emission reduction nationallicence Northwest China nationallicence marginal generator nationallicence Ren Mengjia Energy and Mineral Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University, 16802, University Park, PA, USA aut Shcherbakova Anastasia Energy and Mineral Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University, 16802, University Park, PA, USA aut Frontiers in Energy Springer Berlin Heidelberg 7/4(2013-12-01), 535-543 2095-1701 7:4<535 2013 7 11708 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11708-013-0280-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11708-013-0280-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ren Mengjia Energy and Mineral Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University, 16802, University Park, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shcherbakova Anastasia Energy and Mineral Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University, 16802, University Park, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Frontiers in Energy Springer Berlin Heidelberg 7/4(2013-12-01), 535-543 2095-1701 7:4<535 2013 7 11708 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer