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In the paper, the achievements obtained from carrying out the policy of environmental protection price for promoting air pollution control in coal-fired power plants in China during more than a decade were summarized. Based on the situation of current electricity market reform, the role and effectiveness of environmental protection price for controlling the normal air pollutants, such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and dust in China’s coal-fired power generation plants, were investigated, including the price structure of electricity environmental protection for coal-fired power generation enterprises in different regions, generating units, and power demands. The policy suggestions were proposed, namely, the reform of electricity environmental protection price would be carried out gradually, the relationship between electricity environmental protection price policy and other environmental protection policies would be matched under the relative overcapacity condition, and the environmental protection price regulation would be integrated into other environmental policies.
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The authors appreciate the financial support by a grant from the National key R&D Program of China (No. 2017YFC0210603 and 2016YFC0203700), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51607054), and Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Research Center of Industrial Boiler & Furnace Flue Gas Pollution Control (311202).
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Zhao, Y., Zhang, J. & Wang, Z. Cost analysis of environmental protection price of coal-fired plants in China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 27, 18729–18742 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-08467-z
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