CO2 Emission Reduction Efforts Made by China's Electricity Sector and the International Comparison

Starting from the misunderstanding that China is doing little in controlling her greenhouse gas emissions along with the rapid economic growth, this paper tried to break this myth by looking into China's electricity sector. It is found out that from 2000 to 2007, this sector was having great improvements in energy efficiency improvements, in demand side management and in reducing transmission losses and electricity consumed by power plants, ranked by their contributions to the overall sectoral emission reductions. The cumulative emission reductions from 2000 to 2007 amounted to 553 million tons, which means the unilateral emission reduction actions from China's electricity sector alone helped the world exempt from a one-year national emission from a country as economically-powerful as United Kingdom. Other comparisons in generating efficiency side have been made between China and US. One suggestion for future work has been given at the end of the paper.