ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Agricultural and Food Economics
Volume 9 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1581063
This article is part of the Research TopicEnvironmental Resilience and Sustainable Agri-food System ManagementView all 15 articles
The Impacts of Roof Distributed Photovoltaic on Rural Residents' Carbon Emission Reduction and Power Consumption
Provisionally accepted
- 1School of management, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China
- 2Marketing Service Center, State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Co., LTD, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
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The development of distributed photovoltaic (PV) on rural rooftops plays an important role in realizing China’s carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals. Based on a total of 321 rural residents’ electricity consumption panel data containing 28 periods from January 2020 to April 2022, this paper uses a difference-in-difference model to quantitatively analyze the carbon emission reduction effect and changes in rural residents’ electricity consumption behavior before and after the installation of distributed PV. The results show that: the installation of rural residential distributed PV reduces the electricity purchased from the grid by 32.06kWh per month. It brings carbon emission reduction by about 20.97 kgCO_2 per month. After installing the PV, there is a significant rebound on the gross electricity consumption of the rural residents which increases by 78.46kWh. The rebound effect inhibits carbon emission reduction to some extent. There is a short-term sudden increase in the self-consumption of electricity by rural residents after installing PV, and then it gradually decreases. Finally, the proportion of solar power in the gross electricity consumption stabilizes at about 38.4%, which suggests that there is still a lot of room for improvement in rooftop PV utilization rates. The heterogeneity analysis reveals that the rebound effect of installing high-capacity PV users (>20 kVA) is significantly higher than that of low-capacity PV users (<8 kVA).
Keywords: Rebound effect, Electricity behavior, Distributed photovoltaic, carbon emissions, Difference-in-difference model
Received: 21 Feb 2025; Accepted: 07 Apr 2025.
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* Correspondence: Meirong Yang, Marketing Service Center, State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Co., LTD, Nanjing, 210000, Jiangsu Province, China
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