Cascade hydropower exploitation (CHE) has become an inevitable trend of global hydropower development in the future, and also China’s basic policy on hydropower exploitation. Most of works so far focus on the accumulated effects caused by CHE, but the systematic assessment of the security...

Over the last years renewable energy sources have increased their share on electricity generation of China due to environmental and security of supply concerns. In this work author assesses the role of both the amount and share of renewable energy consumption in economic welfare using...

The maximum exploitation scale and rate of hydropower is the important scientific issue to which the researchers and policy-makers always pay close attention. In this paper, on basis of various assurance levels for instream flow and in accordance with the internal relation between installed...

Solar energy is increasing essentially to fortify energy security and mitigate CO2 emission. Although solar energy utilization on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP) contributes little to the energy conservation and reduction of CO2 emission at present, it plays an important environmental role...