Impact of Energy Consumption on Environment and Public Health: Empirical Evidence from Shanxi Province

In this paper, taking Shanxi as an example, we developed a model with Impact of Energy Consumption on Environment and Public Health: Empirical Evidence from Shanxi Province（IECEPH）based on the theory of marginal input-output dynamic equilibrium, principle of Dose effect and Exposure response. We considered three categories of energy consumption scenarios: fixation technology, technical innovation, and energy transformation. The empirical study shows: firstly, energy consumption was 35×109kwh, under the scenario of energy consumption of fixation technology, which reached a balanced state in 1994, and marginal output of energy consumption equaled marginal cost of residential health damages, secondly, under the scenario of energy consumption of technological innovation, the balanced state remained until 2002, finally, compared with energy consumption under the condition of fixation technology, traditional energy consumption was reduced by 35.72%, health damages 10.13% in scenario of technology innovation, and traditional energy consumption 42.12%, health damages 27.15% in scenario of energy transformation; Compared with technological innovation, health damages were reduced by 19.21% in scenario of energy transformation. Therefore, the results demonstrate that it is important to make policies on public health damages due to environmental pollution resulting from emissions of energy consumption in order to achieve the goal of Shanxi's energy transformation, green Shanxi and public health damages reduction.