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Posts about papers, events, news, and more

Participating APPAM 2024

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Gang will be organizing one session, presenting one paper and one poster

Fewer than 15% of coal power plant workers in China can easily shift to green jobs by 2060

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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.

Huihuang Wu, Junfeng Liu, Xiurong Hu, Gang He, Yuhan Zhou, Xian Wang, Ying Liu, Jianmin Ma, Shu Tao

New Grant: Exploring Energy Burden Among the Older Adults and People with Disabilities in New York City Public Housing Communities

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Gang He, Kaifang Luo, Hilary Botein, and Frank Heiland were awarded a SSA grant

China needs to optimise pumped hydro and battery storage mix

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Optimising existing pumped hydro installations, and accelerating battery storage buildout, is the most cost-effective approach, write three experts.

Liqun Peng, Jiang Lin, Gang He

Power Systems Decarbonization: Technology, Policy Responses, and Implications

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Gang is invited to give an online guest lecture at Peking University

Call for Papers: Achieving carbon neutrality in China’s power sector

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We are organizing an special issue in The Electricity Journal

The Electricity Journal

NYC Climate Week: Clean Energy Global Supply Chains Panel

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Join us to discuss Role of Clean Energy Global Supply Chains in Achieving Climate Goals during NYC Climate Week.

Deep Policy Lab

Gang is recognized as World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2024

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Thank you everyone for supporting our work!

Stanford/Elsevier

ICAE Keynote: Cost Saving, Climate, and Health Effects of Solar PV Global Supply Chains

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Gang is invited to give an online keynote speech in the International Conference on Applied Energy 2024.

Workshop on Open Modeling Carbon Neutrality of the Power Sector

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Deveoping a community to enable open and safe modeling and data sharing.

Deep Policy Lab

U.S.-China Working Group on Enhancing Climate Action in the 2020s

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Gang is invited to serve as an external expert in the energy transition sub-working group of the U.S.-China Working Group on Enhancing Climate Action in the 2020s

Teaching Program Evaluation

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Lectures, stories, and case studies on Program Evaluation.

Research Webinar: Accelerating offshore wind development enhances energy security and promotes carbon neutrality in China’s coastal regions

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New report explores the impacts of offshore wind development on the power generation, transmission networks in China’s power system and more importantly, energy independence of these coastal provinces.

Role of Global Clean Energy Supply Chains in Achieving Climate Goals

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Gang is invited to give a guest lecture at Peking University

Baruch College Conference on Climate Research, Teaching, and Collaboration

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Gang speaks in the Baruch Climate Conference on Global Clean Energy Supply Chain

Baruch Climate Conference

Advancing a just, resilient, and sustainable clean energy supply chain

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The global clean energy supply chain stands at a critical intersection of immense benefits and pressing challenges.

Gang He, Daniel M Kammen, Muhammad Husni Mubarok, Shoon So Oo

SWITCH-China: Open Source Model for the World’s Largest Power System

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Open model to study China’s clean power transition

UNEP releases the Production Gap Report 2023

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Gang joins a global expert team that contributed to the Production Gap Report 2023

SEI, Climate Analytics, E3G, IISD, UNEP

Deploying solar photovoltaic energy first in carbon-intensive regions brings gigatons more carbon mitigations to 2060

Communications Earth & Environment

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The results call for strategic international coordination of PV industrial chain to increase GHG net mitigation.

Shi Chen, Xi Lu, Chris P. Nielsen, Michael B. McElroy, Gang He, Shaohui Zhang, Kebin He, Xiu Yang, Fang Zhang, Jimin Hao

Gang joins the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs

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Welcome new collaborations

Heterogeneous effects of battery storage deployment strategies on decarbonization of provincial power systems in China

Nature Communications

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We find heterogeneous strategy provides the lowest system costs, however, carbon emissions depend on carbon prices.

Liqun Peng, Denise L. Mauzerall, Yaofeng D. Zhong, Gang He

Global assessment of the carbon–water tradeoff of dry cooling for thermal power generation

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We build a global unit-level framework to investigate the CO2 emission and energy penalty due to the deployment of dry cooling.

Yue Qin, Yaoping Wang, Shiyu Li, Hang Deng, Niko Wanders, Joyce Bosmans, Liangdian Huang, Chaopeng Hong, Edward Byers, Daniel Gingerich, Jeff M. Bielicki, Gang He

Climate change impacts on planned supply–demand match in global wind and solar energy systems

Nature Energy

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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.

Laibao Liu, Gang He, Mengxi Wu, Gang Liu, Haoran Zhang, Ying Chen, Jiashu Shen, Shuangcheng Li

Post-Doctoral Researcher in Power System, Air Pollution, and Human Health Modeling

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My research group is recruiting a post-doc.

MIT Energy Conference U.S. China Energy Transition

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Gang joins experts to discuss U.S. China Energy Transition.

MIT Energy Conference

Open Course on Energy Systems Analysis

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Gang opens his Energy Systems Analysis class and hope the energy community find it resourceful.

Best poster award in IAMC 2022

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Our solar global supply chain paper won the best poster award in the IAMC 2022 annual meeting.

The Cost of Going Solo in Solar

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A summary of our 2022 Nature paper.

John Paul Helveston, Gang He, Michael R. Davidson

Quantifying the cost savings of global solar photovoltaic supply chains

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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.

John Paul Helveston, Gang He, Michael R. Davidson

The scale of China’s future nuclear will depend on how renewables evolve

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Nikkei Asia quotes Gang’s comments on nuclear.

Modeling Integrated Power and Transportation Systems: Impacts of Power-to-Gas on the Deep Decarbonization

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

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Hydrogen could link power and transport systems and reduce costs of deep decarbonization for both sectors.

Bo Li, Minyou Chen, Ziming Ma, Gang He, Wei Dai, Dongran Liu, Chi Zhang, Haiwang Zhong

Achieving power sector carbon neutrality in a low-cost renewable era

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Gang shares research at Harvard Growth Lab Research Seminar.

Webinar: Charting China’s Power Sector Coal Decarbonization

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Gang joins experts to discuss coal transition and decarbonization.

Challenges and opportunities for carbon neutrality in China

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

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In this Perspective, we summarize the key features of China’s CO2 emissions, its reduction processes and successes in meeting climate targets.

Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng, Gang He, Hailin Wang, Xian Zhang, Jiang Lin, Ye Qi, Xi Liang

Large balancing areas and dispersed renewable investment enhance grid flexibility in a renewable-dominant power system in China

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Larger balancing area offers direct flexibility benefits.

Jiang Lin, Nikit Abhyankar, Gang He, Xu Liu, Shengfei Yin

Long-term transition of China’s power sector under carbon neutrality target and water withdrawal constraint

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Low cost renewables reduced the need for CCS by 80%, and water constraints nearly squeeze CCS out.

Chao Zhang, Gang He, Josiah Johnston, Lijin Zhong

Gang contributed to the NYS Climate Action Council Draft Scoping Plan

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Dr. Gang He served as a member of the technical advisory group for the scoping plan.

An empirical analysis of applications of artificial intelligence algorithms in wind power technology innovation during 1980–2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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AI algorithms in wind power technology innovation.

Mekyung Lee, Gang He

Stony Brook Receives $4.25M Grant from State to Help NY Improve Recycling

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Sorting garbage is messy, but important.

Nature News featured our studies on China’s clean energy transition

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Our work is reported by Nature.

Smriti Mallapaty

Enabling a Rapid and Just Transition away from Coal in China

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Aggressive coal-transition pathway is needed to achieve carbon nutrality goal while achieving water saving, avoiding premature death.

Gang He, Jiang Lin, Ying Zhang, Wenhua Zhang, Guilherme Larangeira, Chao Zhang, Wei Peng, Manzhi Liu, Fuqiang Yang

China’s power sector could be ‘10% cheaper in 2030’ with more renewables

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A post explaining our 2020 Nature Communications paper.

Jiang Lin, Gang He

Rapid Cost Decrease of Renewables and Storage Accelerates the Decarbonization of China’s Power System

Nature Communications

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A renewable dominant pathway is not just technogical sound, but also cost effective.

Gang He, Jiang Lin, Froylan Sifuentes, Xu Liu, Nikit Abhyankar, Amol Phadke

Stony Brook University Hosts NSF Funded Data Science Workshop

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On January 9-10, 2020, the Department of Technology and Society, Stony Brook University, hosted an NSF funded workshop.

2019 Energy Innovation Policy and Management Scholars

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Grateful to join a group of energy innovation scholars in the ITIF/Sloan Energy Innovation Policy and Management Scholars program

Gang testified for the New York State Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act

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Dr. Gang He joined a Stony Brook University experts team to testify for NYCLCPA.

Experiences and lessons from China’s success in providing electricity for all

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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Funding, coordination, and technology are key to deliver full electrification.

Gang He, David Victor

Three lessons from China’s effort to bring electricity to 1.4 billion people

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The ‘Electricity for All’ programme was hugely successful, reaching even the remotest populations.

SWITCH-China: A Systems Approach to Decarbonizing China’s Power System

Environmental Science & Technology

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SWITCH-China, an integrated model for power sector decarbonization.

Gang He, Anne-Perrine Avrin, James H. Nelson, Josiah Johnston, Ana Mileva, Jianwei Tian, Daniel M. Kammen

Where, when and how much solar is available? A provincial-scale solar resource assessment for China

Renewable Energy

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We utilized 10-year hourly solar irradiation data from 2001 to 2010 from 200 representative locations to develop provincial solar availability profiles.

Gang He, Daniel M. Kammen

ELITE cities: A low-carbon eco-city evaluation tool for China

Ecological Indicators

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ELITE Cities is an Excel-based tool that measures city low-carbon development progress on 33 key indicators.

Nan Zhou, Gang He, Christopher Williams, David Fridley

Where, when and how much wind is available? A provincial-scale wind resource assessment for China

Energy Policy

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We utilized 200 representative locations for which 10 years of hourly wind speed data exist to develop provincial capacity factors from 2001 to 2010, and to build analytic wind speed profiles.

Gang He, Daniel M. Kammen

Addressing carbon Offsetters’ Paradox: Lessons from Chinese wind CDM

Energy Policy

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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.

Gang He, Richard Morse