Lighting energy use in Anding District, Gansu Province, China

Abigail Clarke-Sather; Yan Li; Jiansheng Qu

doi:10.1016/j.esd.2016.02.012

Lighting energy use in Anding District, Gansu Province, China

Abigail Clarke-Sather, Yan Li, Jiansheng Qu

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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An energy use survey of 237 households was carried out in rural Anding district, Gansu province, P.R. China in 2010. Baseline lighting electricity use was assessed for current (2010) and future use (2020) and compared by light bulb type, household room, and seasonal differences. A simple life cycle assessment (LCA) compared strategies such as replacing incandescents with CFLs and reducing total daily hours of lighting to assess possible greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions. Replacing incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) has the potential to reduce current and future annual energy use by 27% and 23% respectively. Within households, replacing bedroom light bulbs with CFLs reduces GHG emissions most, over 38% of the total CO₂ equivalent reductions possible. A focus on bedroom lighting in rural Anding district has the best potential to aid China's carbon intensity reduction goals by 2020.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	40-49
Number of pages	10
Journal	Energy for Sustainable Development
Volume	32
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2016.02.012
State	Published - Jun 1 2016

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The authors would like to thank the Chinese Academy of Sciences Fellowship for Young International Scientists and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Research Fund for International Young Scientists Project No. 41150110340 for funding this research. The funding sources had no involvement in the: conduct of the research; article preparation; study design; collection, analysis and interpretation of data; paper writing; or the decision to submit the article for publication.

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© 2016 International Energy Initiative.

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Carbon dioxide emissions
China
Electric lighting
Global warming potential
Life cycle assessment
Rural energy use

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