Zhang, Jinying http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1286-0027
Cross, Melvin L.
Funding for this research was provided by:
China Scholarship Council (201802515003)
Department of Education of Shandong Province (J15WG03)
Dalhousie University (Joint Fund 2016, Joint Fund 2016)
Article History
Received: 27 September 2019
Accepted: 11 April 2020
First Online: 22 April 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Neither Shandong University of Finance and Economics nor Dalhousie University played any role in the design of this study nor in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data nor in the writing of this paper. Neither University played any role the decision to submit this paper for publication.
: We are ready for opening all the data at anytime. All the data we used are publicly available. The average on-grid price and thermal coal price data for some years are from the database of Wind Characteristics, the Annual Report on Power Regulation by the State Electricity Regulatory Commission, and the National electricity price Supervision Bulletin by the National Energy Administration. All remaining data are from the China Statistical Yearbooks Database and publicly available at ExternalRef removed.