Journal
ENERGY POLICY
Volume 33, Issue 3, Pages 307-318Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2003.08.002
Keywords
natural gas substitution for coal; urban air quality improvement; incentive policy implication
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Natural gas has long been used in China mainly as chemical raw material. With the increasing emphasis on urban air pollution prevention, the issue of natural gas substitution to coal has been raised in many large Chinese cities. This paper reviews the environmental-economic-technical rationality of dashing-for-gas in urban area, especially for civil use such as cooking and heating in China. Taking Beijing and Chongqing as study cases, a cost-benefit analysis of natural gas substitution is done and the ongoing economic and system barriers to natural gas penetration are analyzed. Indications of natural gas penetration incentive policy making are given finally. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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