Study on the classifying regions in China by the energy consumption characteristics

The study on the regions is essential to reach the strategic target through exploiting potentialities in view of the universality and difference of territories and the importance of energy management.The methods of co-word analysis and statistical cluster analysis were employed in this paper to analyze the study focuses,description index,regional differences and regional classification of the 30 provinces in china.The regional energy consumption should be investigated from three factors of total energy consumption,energy efficiency and energy structure;Two methods are applied to computed the energy equivalent value and there are the significant statistical difference between them,then the electrothermal equivalent method was choose for the paper,other than the consumption of coal equivalent for power;The thirty provinces were classified into seven groups according to the three indexes to calculate the above three factors through the statistical cluster analysis and there are the obvious differences among them.It is suggested that government should take the differences among the regions into account in making and carrying out the national energy strategies on the details.Meanwhile,the more effective incentive and restraint mechanisms to change the current regional unbalance with the energy consumption as well as to adjust measures to local conditions respect to the different groups that are the first-rate area(three provinces),the excellent area(fifteen provinces)and the inferior area(twelve provinces)in order to enhance the efficiency,optimize the structure and control the quantity of energy use.