spatial variation and distribution of urban energy consumptions from cities in china城市能源消耗的空间变化和分布在中国城市.pdf

Energies 2011, 4, 26-38; doi:10.3390/en4010026 OPEN ACCESS energies ISSN 1996-1073 /journal/energies Article Spatial Variation and Distribution of Urban Energy Consumptions from Cities in China Lixiao Zhang 1, Zhifeng Yang 1,*, Jing Liang 2 and Yanpeng Cai 3 1 State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; E-Mail: zhanglixiao@ 2 Beijing Municipal Research Institute of Environmental Protection, Beijing 100037, China; E-Mail: ljzzu@ 3 Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 1Z1, Canada; E-Mail: yanpeng.cai@ * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: zfyang@; Tel.: +86-10 Fax: +86-10 Received: 24 November 2010; in revised form: 23 December 2010 / Accepted: 23 December 2010 / Published: 27 December 2010 Abstract: With support of GIS tools and Theil index, the spatial variance of urban energy consumption in China was discussed in this paper through the parallel comparison and quantitative analysis of the 30 provincial capital cities of mainland China in 2005, in terms of scale, efficiency and structure. The indicators associated with urban energy consumption show large spatial variance across regions, possibly due to diversities of geographic features, economic development levels and local energy source availability in China. In absolute terms, cities with the highest total energy consu