Non-fossil energy increases the non-dispatchability of power system, requiring fossil-based technologies to provide back-up capacity as dispatchable source. In a coal-based economy like China, it is coal-fired units that act as back-up capacity. We show that increase of non-fossil energy...

This paper uses a macroeconomic approach to develop a long-run electricity demand model to analyze the main factors affecting electricity demand in the Peopleís Republic of China (PRC). As expected, the relationship among variables is more stable and significant after the PRCís economic...