China’s Clean Energy Transition Plan Should Have Been More Ambitious and More Aspirational to the World
IGS Blog | In the most recently released “China’s 14th Five-Year Plan” (the Plan), covering the years 2021-2025, one welcome highlight is its focus on decarbonization and energy efficiency.
Coal Region Economic Transformation in China
Four years ago, in 2016, I was honored to post an inaugural blog for the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy. The blog tells my personal story of how I witnessed the economic ups and downs of my hometown city Wuhai (not to be confused with Wuhan) in Inner Mongolia, the number one coal-producing province […]
UN Climate Week: China’s Electricity Market Reform Is Underway
During the UN Climate Week, I attended a panel hosted by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) China and China Electricity Council (CEC) for a discussion on China’s electricity market reform. Experts in attendance were from Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Energy Foundation China, International Energy Agency (IEA), Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), Global Energy Interconnection […]
Vehicle Electrification in China: Preferences, Policy, and Technology Trajectories
Harvard Kennedy School Energy Policy Seminar Series, Fall 2017 By Louisa Lund, Program Director, Consortium for Energy Policy Research In the past few years, China has become the world’s biggest market for electric vehicles. At the same time, independent Chinese companies have come to dominate plug-in electric vehicle sales within China. In the Energy Policy […]