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Cost-effectiveness of removing the last 10-20% emissions of China’s power sector | Environmental Research Letters | Eliminating the last 10–20% of CO2 emissions create net climate and health benefits with only slightly increased costs. | 2025 |
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Fewer than 15% of coal power plant workers in China can easily shift to green jobs by 2060 | One Earth | A coal power worker needs to travel 194 (178–242) km on average to access a green job. Only 11%–14% of existing coal power workers will transition to green jobs by 2060. | 2024 |
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Regional disparities in health and employment outcomes of China’s transition to a low-carbon electricity system | Environmental Research: Energy | Although disparities in health impacts across provinces narrow as fossil fuels phase out, disparities in labor compensation widen with wealthier East Coast provinces gaining the most in labor compensation. | 2024 |
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Advancing a just, resilient, and sustainable clean energy supply chain | ClimateWorks Blog | In addressing the challenges and maximizing the benefits, there is a pressing need for a commonly agreed framework for a just, resilient, and sustainable clean energy supply chain. | 2023 |
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Deploying solar photovoltaic energy first in carbon-intensive regions brings gigatons more carbon mitigations to 2060 | Communications Earth & Environment | A net GHG mitigation of 1.29 Gt CO2-equivalent from 2009–2019, achieved by 1.97 Gt of mitigation from installation minus 0.68 Gt of emissions from manufacturing. | 2023 |
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Accelerating China’s power sector decarbonization can save lives: integrating public health goals into power sector planning decisions | Environmental Research Letters | The value of climate and health benefits would exceed the additional costs, leading to $824 billion net benefits from 2021 to 2050. | 2023 |
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Heterogeneous effects of battery storage deployment strategies on decarbonization of provincial power systems in China | Nature Communications | We find heterogeneous strategy provides the lowest system costs, however, carbon emissions depend on carbon prices. | 2023 |
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Global assessment of the carbon–water tradeoff of dry cooling for thermal power generation | Nature Water | We build a global unit-level framework to investigate the CO2 emission and energy penalty due to the deployment of dry cooling. | 2023 |
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Climate change impacts on planned supply–demand match in global wind and solar energy systems | Nature Energy | Up to 32% or 44% of non-Antarctic land areas for wind or solar, respectively, are projected to experience supply demand match reductions by the end of this century under an intermediate emission scenario. | 2023 |
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Quantifying the cost savings of global solar photovoltaic supply chains | Nature | Globalized supply chain has saved solar installers in the U.S., Germany, and China $67B 2008-2020, and solar prices will be 20-30% higher in 2030 if countries move to produce domestically. | 2022 |
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Modeling Integrated Power and Transportation Systems: Impacts of Power-to-Gas on the Deep Decarbonization | IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications | Hydrogen could link power and transport systems and reduce costs of deep decarbonization for both sectors. | 2022 |
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Challenges and opportunities for carbon neutrality in China | Nature Reviews Earth & Environment | In this Perspective, we summarize the key features of China’s CO2 emissions, its reduction processes and successes in meeting climate targets. | 2022 |
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Large balancing areas and dispersed renewable investment enhance grid flexibility in a renewable-dominant power system in China | iScience | Regional balancing could reduce the renewable curtailment rate by 5–7%, compared with a provincial balancing strategy. | 2022 |
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Long-term transition of China’s power sector under carbon neutrality target and water withdrawal constraint | Journal of Cleaner Production | Low cost renewables reduced the need for CCS by 80%, and water constraints nearly squeeze CCS out. | 2021 |
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Enabling a Rapid and Just Transition away from Coal in China | One Earth | Aggressive coal-transition pathway is needed to achieve carbon nutrality goal while achieving water saving, avoiding premature death. | 2020 |
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Rapid cost decrease of renewables and storage accelerates the decarbonization of China’s power system | Nature Communications | A renewable dominant pathway is not just technogical sound, but also cost effective. | 2020 |
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Experiences and lessons from China’s success in providing electricity for all | Resources, Conservation and Recycling | Key experiences and lessons to be learned from China’s successful program to provide electricity for all. | 2017 |
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SWITCH-China: A Systems Approach to Decarbonizing China’s Power System | Environmental Science & Technology | SWITCH-China, an integrated model for power sector decarbonization. | 2016 |
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Assessing the impacts of nuclear desalination and geoengineering to address China’s water shortages | Desalination | We compare both coal and nuclear desalination with the currently planned South–North Water Transfer Mega-Project and show that, while the short-run cost of water diversion is lower, critical vulnerabilities and future resource demands favor nuclear desalination. | 2015 |
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ELITE cities: A low-carbon eco-city evaluation tool for China | Ecological Indicators | ELITE Cities is an Excel-based tool that measures city low-carbon development progress on 33 key indicators. | 2015 |
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Addressing carbon Offsetters’ Paradox: Lessons from Chinese wind CDM | Energy Policy | The paper examines the application of additionality in the Chinese wind power market and draws implications for the design of effective global carbon offset policy. | 2013 |
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