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Offshore Wind Power and Resource Adequacy in the China Southern Grid
As China accelerates its transition toward its “Dual Carbon” goals, the rapid scaling of offshore wind presents both significant opportunities and new challenges for power system planning and operations. How will large-scale offshore wind development impact the resource adequacy and stability of the China Southern Power Grid by mid-century? New analysis from the California-China Climate Institute and the University of California, San Diego provides in-depth modeling and policy analysis on offshore wind development and power system resource adequacy planning practices within the China Southern Power Grid region. Read the Executive Summary here.
China’s 2025 Methane Action Update
Methane is a powerful super-pollutant, and China is making strides to reduce its impact and achieve GHG mitigation targets. CLEE’s California-China Climate Institute recently released a new annual review of its efforts in 2025. The review details recent advancements, challenges, and trends in China’s actions to reduce methane emissions.
Financing Battery Storage in China: Insights From California’s Practices
China’s rapid expansion of battery storage faces a pressing challenge: ensuring sustainable and market-based revenue models. This report draws on California’s experience to identify policy and market design strategies that can inform China’s path toward financially viable battery storage development. Read the Chinese version here.
This report compares climate-related flood risks and adaptation strategies in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Greater Bay Area in Guangdong, China. It highlights how regional governance, cross-border collaboration, and climate-conscious infrastructure can strengthen resilience and provide lessons for climate adaptation planning.
China’s Energy Transition Brief: How Power Market Reforms are Meeting Climate Goals
This brief provides an overview of these provincial reforms and analyzes their possible contribution to China’s climate goals. It also briefly highlights the challenges ahead and explores opportunities to further unleash the potential of power market reforms.
This brief examines China’s evolving green certificate program and its integration with provincial renewable energy targets. Drawing on U.S. REC tracking systems, it highlights lessons for building a transparent, standardized, and credible certificate-based framework to advance China’s clean energy transition. Read the Chinese version here.