A review of the technologies, economics and policy instruments for decarbonising energy-intensive manufacturing industries

TA Napp, A Gambhir, TP Hills, N Florin… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2014 - Elsevier
Industrial processes account for one-third of global energy demand. The iron and steel,
cement and refining sectors are particularly energy-intensive, together making up over 30 …

A plant-by-plant strategy for high-ambition coal power phaseout in China

RY Cui, N Hultman, D Cui, H McJeon, S Yu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
More than half of current coal power capacity is in China. A key strategy for meeting China's
2060 carbon neutrality goal and the global 1.5° C climate goal is to rapidly shift away from …

A review of Chinese CO2 emission projections to 2030: the role of economic structure and policy

M Grubb, F Sha, T Spencer, N Hughes, Z Zhang… - Climate …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The projections of 89 scenarios from 12 different models for the CO2 emissions of China to
2030 are reviewed, along with wider examinations of lessons from the history of energy …

Building energy-consumption status worldwide and the state-of-the-art technologies for zero-energy buildings during the past decade

X Cao, X Dai, J Liu - Energy and buildings, 2016 - Elsevier
Energy consumption has dramatically increased in buildings over the past decade due to
population growth, more time spent indoors, increased demand for building functions and …

A cross-country comparison of the building energy consumptions and their trends

U Berardi - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2017 - Elsevier
Although it is often stated that the energy consumption in buildings accounts for more than
30% of total global final energy use, only a few studies analyze updated data about the …

The role of metal–organic frameworks in a carbon-neutral energy cycle

A Schoedel, Z Ji, OM Yaghi - Nature Energy, 2016 - nature.com
Reducing society's reliance on fossil fuels presents one of the most pressing energy and
environmental challenges facing our planet. Hydrogen, methane and carbon dioxide, which …

Green growth: The economic impacts of large-scale renewable energy development in China

H Dai, X Xie, Y Xie, J Liu, T Masui - Applied energy, 2016 - Elsevier
This study assesses the economic impacts and environmental co-benefits of large-scale
development of renewable energy (RE) in China toward 2050 using a dynamic computable …

A bottom-up analysis of China's iron and steel industrial energy consumption and CO2 emissions

W Chen, X Yin, D Ma - Applied Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
China's steel industry has grown significantly since the mid-1990s, and has been the
backbone of Chinese heavy industry. It is also the most energy intensive industrial sector in …

Determining China's CO2 emissions peak with a dynamic nonlinear artificial neural network approach and scenario analysis

G Xu, P Schwarz, H Yang - Energy Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
The global community and the academic world have paid great attention to whether and
when China's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will peak. Our study investigates the issue …

Exploration of low-cost green transition opportunities for China's power system under dual carbon goals

K Yuan, T Zhang, X Xie, S Du, X Xue… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
To address the global challenge of climate change and achieve sustainable development,
decarbonizing the electric power system in China is considered the most imperative since …