Impact of Renewable Energy Consumption on Carbon Emission in Power System: A Case Study on China's Provincial Panel Data

China's efforts in promoting renewable energy are recognized as a strategy for mitigating its carbon footprint. This paper focuses on power system and utilizes provincial panel data in China to examine the relationship between renewable energy consumption and carbon emission. Firstly, descriptive analysis of important variable data is carried out to establish the basis for regression analysis. Secondly, sample data from 30 provinces in China is used to conduct empirical test based on the time span from 2014 to 2019. Finally, the findings demonstrate that the implementation of renewable energy can effectively diminish both overall and regional carbon emission and also indicate that factors such as trade openness and economic growth also exert an influence on carbon emission.