Electricity Consumption Changes across China’s Provinces Using A Spatial Shift-Share Decomposition Model
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Methodology
2.2. Data Sources
3. Results
3.1. The Results of Moran’s Test
3.2. The Spatiotemporal Variation of the OC Component
3.3. The Spatiotemporal Variation of the IM Component
3.4. The Spatiotemporal Variation of the EC Component
3.5. The NNEC and RNEC Components across China’s Provinces
4. Conclusions and Policy Implications
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Indicator | Time | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 |
er | Moran’s I | 0.287 | 0.209 | 0.198 | 0.252 |
Variance | 0.011 | 0.010 | 0.011 | 0.011 | |
p-value | 0.003 | 0.016 | 0.024 | 0.007 | |
Indicator | Time | 2000–2015 | 2000–2005 | 2005–2010 | 2010–2015 |
cr | Moran’s I | 0.111 | 0.119 | 0.150 | −0.109 |
Variance | 0.013 | 0.014 | 0.009 | 0.008 | |
p-value | 0.096 | 0.099 | 0.034 | 0.155 | |
Indicator | Time | 2000–2015 | 2000–2005 | 2005–2010 | 2010–2015 |
ECr | Moran’s I | −0.231 | −0.234 | −0.243 | 0.130 |
Variance | 0.013 | 0.015 | 0.014 | 0.014 | |
p-value | 0.026 | 0.028 | 0.026 | 0.069 |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleBao, Chao, and Ruowen Liu. 2019. "Electricity Consumption Changes across China’s Provinces Using A Spatial Shift-Share Decomposition Model" Sustainability 11, no. 9: 2494. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11092494