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MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION STRATEGIES FOR GLOBAL CHANGE
Volume 21, Issue 3, Pages 377-390Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-014-9604-1
Keywords
Allowance allocation; Carbon trading; China; Cournot theory of oligopoly; Electricity sector; Partial equilibrium model
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71301157, 71171183, 71172213]
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Facing requirements of sustainable development and tremendous international pressures, China has initiated a serious of trials for mandatory carbon trading schemes. In this study, to investigate the impact of carbon trading on commodity prices, emissions, outputs and profits of the regulated agents such as power plants in China, a partial equilibrium model is constructed based on the Cournot theory of oligopoly. Three key results were found. First, following the implementation of a carbon trading scheme there is a shift of production from plants with high emission rates to those with low rates. Second, the emission-based updating (EBU) allocation of allowable emissions would provide a buffer in which the reduced outputs and profits of plants with high emissions are alleviated. Third, if the electricity price is market oriented it will vary with the carbon price. Based on these results, we conclude that the carbon constraint will result in cleaner generating technologies and be helpful in promoting the development of low carbon technologies in China. In addition, the EBU allocation is more feasible at the beginning of the national carbon trading in China. Given that electricity prices in China are regulated now, we argue that mandatory carbon trading should be implemented at the beginning of coordinated reforms of market-oriented pricing in electricity.
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