Impact Analysis of Air Pollutant Emission Policies on Thermal Coal Supply Chain Enterprises in China

• Main Authors: Xiaopeng Guo, Xiaodan Guo, Jiahai Yuan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2014-12-01
• Series: Sustainability
• Subjects: thermal coal supply chain; air pollutant emission policy; system dynamics
• Online Access: http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/7/1/75

Spurred by the increasingly serious air pollution problem, the Chinese government has launched a series of policies to put forward specific measures of power structure adjustment and the control objectives of air pollution and coal consumption. Other policies pointed out that the coal resources regional blockades will be broken by improving transportation networks and constructing new logistics nodes. Thermal power takes the largest part of China’s total installed power generation capacity, so these policies will undoubtedly impact thermal coal supply chain member enterprises. Based on the actual situation in China, this paper figures out how the member enterprises adjust their business decisions to satisfy the requirements of air pollution prevention and control policies by establishing system dynamic models of policy impact transfer. These dynamic analyses can help coal enterprises and thermal power enterprises do strategic environmental assessments and find directions of sustainable development. Furthermore, the policy simulated results of this paper provide the Chinese government with suggestions for policy-making to make sure that the energy conservation and emission reduction policies and sustainable energy policies can work more efficiently.