The Low Carbon Benefits of the Three Gorges Project in Power Generation and Shipping and Their Influencing Factors
To quantitatively evaluate the low carbon benefits of the Three Gorges Project in power generation and ship-ping,the equivalent coefficient method is adopted to calculate the low carbon benefits of the project from 2003 to 2020.The results show that the cumulative reduction in carbon dioxide emission is 1.261 billion tons,and the equivalent emis-sion reduction benefit of 138.66 billion yuan,in which the power generation is of emission reduction of 1.106 billion tons and the equivalent reduction benefit of 122.019 billion yuan.Based on the analysis of factors affecting the low carbon benefits,it is recommended to enhance the joint power generation dispatching and intelligent management capabilities of the Three Gorges Project and the upstream cascade reservoirs,and improve the integrated and multi-modal shipping sys-tems of the main stream and tributary streams of the Yangtze River,to further improve the low carbon benefits.
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