Determinants of Electricity Consumption Intensity in China: Analysis of Cities at Subprovince and Prefecture Levels in 2009

Table 1

Selected categorical indicators determined electricity consumption in the literature.

Reference	Regions	Contents	Period	Related variables	Categorical indicator
Larivière and Lafrance [23]	Canadian cities	Electricity consumption	1991	Urban density	Urban morphology
				Annual degree-days below 18^°C	Natural condition
Halicioglu [29]	Turkey	Residential electricity consumption	1968–2005	Real residential electricity price	Price
				Urbanization rate	Urbanization
Bessec and Fouquau [34]	15 European countries	Electricity consumption	1985–2000	Temperature	Natural condition
Lai et al. [35]	Macao	Electricity consumption	2000–2006	Monthly mean temperature	Natural condition
Permana et al. [24]	Bandung city, Indonesia	Household consumption of electricity and liquefied petroleum gas	2007	Urban development forms	Urban morphology
Ziramba [32]	South Africa	Per capita residential electricity consumption	1978–2005	Real residential electricity price	Price
Liu [30]	China	Energy (including electricity) consumption	2009	Urbanization level	Urbanization
Aasen et al. [26]	Norway	Electricity consumption of enterprise	—	Electricity disclosure scheme	Regulation context
Bianco et al. [33]	Romania	Nonresidential electricity consumption	1975–2008	Electricity price	Price
Burke [36]	133 countries	Electricity ladder	1960–2003	Resource reserves	Resource endowment
Wiesmann et al. [31]	Portugal	Residential electricity consumption	2001	Heating/cooling degree-days; Urbanization level	Natural condition; Urbanization
Chen [27]	China	Energy (mainly electricity) conservation	2004–2011	Differential electricity pricing policy	Regulation context
Wang et al. [25]	China	Change in industrial electricity consumption	1998–2007	Change in industrial structure	Industrial structure