Impact of the Green Light Program on haze in the  North China Plain, China

Long, Xin; Tie, Xuexi; Zhou, Jiamao; Dai, Wenting; Li, Xueke; Feng, Tian; Li, Guohui; Cao, Junji; An, Zhisheng

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-11185-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-11185-2019

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04 Sep 2019

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| 04 Sep 2019

Impact of the Green Light Program on haze in the North China Plain, China

Xin Long, Xuexi Tie, Jiamao Zhou, Wenting Dai, Xueke Li, Tian Feng, Guohui Li, Junji Cao, and Zhisheng An

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RC1: 'accepted with minor revisions', Anonymous Referee #2, 21 May 2019
- AC1: 'Response to Referee #2', Xuexi Tie, 22 Jul 2019
RC2: 'review for Long et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 17 Jun 2019
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China is undergoing ever-increasing demand for electricity, and launched the Green Light Program (GLP), which is an effective reduction of the coal consumption for power generation. The estimated potential coal saving induced by the GLP can reach a massive value of 120–323 million tons. There was a massive resultant potential emission reduction of air pollutants, which is inherently connected to the haze formation, because the NO_x and SO₂ are important precursors for the formation of particles.