关键词: 人口城镇化, 多维特征, 居民电力消费, 县( 市) 域, 驱动影响

Abstract:

Literature suggests that urbanization is one of the core drivers of energy consumption and carbon emissions，especially for the rapidly growth of residential electricity demand．Previous studies have only focused on the impacts of urbanization level，but ignored the multiple dimensions of urbanization and how they drive the residential electricity consumption at the local level．In this paper we decompose multiple dimensions of urbanization into level，pattern，structure and systemic position using 2000 and 2010 county-level data in Zhejiang Province，China，and test the local drivers of residential electricity consumption with fixed-effect models．Results reveal that higher per capital residential electricity usage is associated with higher urbanization level，more concentrated population distribution，higher systemic position，shrinking household size，declining labor participating rate，and higher average number of residential rooms．Policy implications are discussed．

Keywords:  Urbanization, Multiple Dimensions, Residential Electricity Consumption, County, Driving Forces