Effectiveness of clean development policies on coal-fired power generation: an empirical study in China.

Coal-fired power will remain China's primary source of electricity for a long time to come. The clean development of coal-fired power generation has become an important strategic choice for China's energy transformation. Based on collecting and sorting out the driving policies for China's clean development of coal-fired power generation from 1997 to 2016, firstly, we reviewed the historical evolution of these policies in terms of the policy quantity, policy theme, and policy instrument.