Spatiotemporal pattern evolution and quantitative prediction of electrical carbon emissions from a demand-side perspective in urban areas

Abstract Amid global climate change, analyzing spatiotemporal patterns and predicting urban demand-side electrical carbon emissions is vital for regional low-carbon transitions. This study focuses on a developed coastal region in Guangdong, China. Utilizing high-frequency monitoring data from  3000...

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Main Authors: Ying Tian, Hui Cao, Dapeng Yan, Jinmei Chen, Yayan Hua
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Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-07-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-10509-w
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description Abstract Amid global climate change, analyzing spatiotemporal patterns and predicting urban demand-side electrical carbon emissions is vital for regional low-carbon transitions. This study focuses on a developed coastal region in Guangdong, China. Utilizing high-frequency monitoring data from  3000 distribution network stations (May–Sept 2018), it creates an integrated ’spatiotemporal evolution-data driven prediction’ framework to reveal emission dynamics and enhance forecast accuracy. Breaking through the limitations of traditional single-scale analysis, the study innovatively integrates monthly, daily and hourly time series with standard deviation ellipses and Kriging spatial interpolation technology, achieving a combination of spatial and dynamic spatiotemporal evolution analysis. The study found that the center of gravity of carbon emissions showed a significant southwest-northeastward migration trajectory, and there was a spatial differentiation feature of central urban agglomeration and peripheral area dispersion. The logarithmic mean divisia index analysis shows that finance and taxation are the primary positive driving factors, while the impact of values of industrial output and commercial consumption shows significant spatiotemporal scale differences. On this basis, the study proposed a prediction method that integrates feature engineering and bidirectional gated recurrent unit (Bi-GRU) to effectively capture carbon emission fluctuations, with an accuracy of 82.83 $$\%$$ . The analysis framework and prediction model can provide methodological support for formulating emission reduction policies in the region and have significant application value.
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spelling doaj-art-a0a84e8a5bd24d07aaa82c4203c0a9a72025-08-20T04:02:56ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222025-07-0115111710.1038/s41598-025-10509-wSpatiotemporal pattern evolution and quantitative prediction of electrical carbon emissions from a demand-side perspective in urban areasYing Tian0Hui Cao1Dapeng Yan2Jinmei Chen3Yayan Hua4The State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong UniversityThe State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong UniversityThe State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong UniversityGuangzhou Baiyun Power Supply Bureau, Guangdong Power Grid Co., Ltd, China Southern Power GridWuxi Lion King Technology Co., LtdAbstract Amid global climate change, analyzing spatiotemporal patterns and predicting urban demand-side electrical carbon emissions is vital for regional low-carbon transitions. This study focuses on a developed coastal region in Guangdong, China. Utilizing high-frequency monitoring data from  3000 distribution network stations (May–Sept 2018), it creates an integrated ’spatiotemporal evolution-data driven prediction’ framework to reveal emission dynamics and enhance forecast accuracy. Breaking through the limitations of traditional single-scale analysis, the study innovatively integrates monthly, daily and hourly time series with standard deviation ellipses and Kriging spatial interpolation technology, achieving a combination of spatial and dynamic spatiotemporal evolution analysis. The study found that the center of gravity of carbon emissions showed a significant southwest-northeastward migration trajectory, and there was a spatial differentiation feature of central urban agglomeration and peripheral area dispersion. The logarithmic mean divisia index analysis shows that finance and taxation are the primary positive driving factors, while the impact of values of industrial output and commercial consumption shows significant spatiotemporal scale differences. On this basis, the study proposed a prediction method that integrates feature engineering and bidirectional gated recurrent unit (Bi-GRU) to effectively capture carbon emission fluctuations, with an accuracy of 82.83 $$\%$$ . The analysis framework and prediction model can provide methodological support for formulating emission reduction policies in the region and have significant application value.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-10509-wSpatiotemporal pattern evolutionElectrical carbon emissionsDemand-side perspectiveData-drivenCarbon predictionDistributed network
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Spatiotemporal pattern evolution and quantitative prediction of electrical carbon emissions from a demand-side perspective in urban areas
Scientific Reports
Spatiotemporal pattern evolution
Electrical carbon emissions
Demand-side perspective
Data-driven
Carbon prediction
Distributed network
title Spatiotemporal pattern evolution and quantitative prediction of electrical carbon emissions from a demand-side perspective in urban areas
title_full Spatiotemporal pattern evolution and quantitative prediction of electrical carbon emissions from a demand-side perspective in urban areas
title_fullStr Spatiotemporal pattern evolution and quantitative prediction of electrical carbon emissions from a demand-side perspective in urban areas
title_full_unstemmed Spatiotemporal pattern evolution and quantitative prediction of electrical carbon emissions from a demand-side perspective in urban areas
title_short Spatiotemporal pattern evolution and quantitative prediction of electrical carbon emissions from a demand-side perspective in urban areas
title_sort spatiotemporal pattern evolution and quantitative prediction of electrical carbon emissions from a demand side perspective in urban areas
topic Spatiotemporal pattern evolution
Electrical carbon emissions
Demand-side perspective
Data-driven
Carbon prediction
Distributed network
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-10509-w
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