Analysis of Relationship between Forest Cover and Electricity Consumption in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Hui-Ru Liao, 廖慧如
• Other Authors: 邱祈榮
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03564945589298927952

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 森林環境暨資源學研究所 === 102 === 　　The objective of this study is to analyze the influence of relevant variables to annual electricity consumption per capita. Taiwan is located at the junction of different geographical regions which bring diversity to topography, geology, climate, ecological characteristics as well as a variety of industrial development possibilities. Each county has its unique natural environment, positioning development and industrial structure that led electricity consumption derived from different behavior. 　　This study collected annual electricity consumption per capita, forest coverage rate, population density, mean annual temperature, mean annual disposable income per capita, numbers of air-conditioning machines, computer and TV owned by every hundred household in Taiwan from 2007 to 2012, and apply stepwise regression procedure to select meaningful independent variables. 　　This study also found the impact mechanism of annual electricity consumption per capita can be explained by numbers of air-conditioning machines and computer owned by every hundred household, mean annual temperature and forest coverage rate. The resulting regression model described 77.4% of variability. Therefore, when someone is doing related research patterns in the future, he/she could consider these factors, in order to enhance the accuracy of regression model.