JiSMART2021—054: Provincial Comparative Study on Household Energy Consumption In Urban Areas of China

Abstract

With the economic growth and improvement of living standards, people tend to consume more energy to achieve a quality life characterized by comfort. Residential energy consumption is also increasing year by year. In 2019, Household energy consumption in China's urban areas reached 617.09 million tce, an increase of 50 percent compared with 2010. In this paper, establishes a calculation model of energy consumption, and based on provincial panel data, the characteristics of urban residential energy consumption in 30 provinces of China are compared and analyzed. The results show that the total energy consumption of Shandong province is the highest, which is 576.31PJ. The second is Guangdong and Heilongjiang, respectively 450PJ and 416PJ; Hainan province consumed the least amount of energy. From the analysis of energy consumption structure, residential heating energy consumption accounted for the highest proportion, about 39% of the total energy consumption, among which the top three are Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia and Shandong. The total kitchen/hot water energy consumption is 2425PJ, accounting for 37% of the total. The kitchen hot water energy consumption in Guangdong province ranks first in China, and Sichuan ranks second. Cooling, lighting and power accounted for 8.5%, 9.7% and 5.9% of the total, respectively.