Launched in 2019 the OIES China Energy Research Programme, is a center of analytical excellence offering insights into the factors that inform China’s energy policies and choices and their pivotal role in global energy markets.
China is the world’s second largest economy, biggest importer of crude oil, the fastest growing consumer of natural gas as well as the world’s top coal producer and emitter of CO2. The country is endowed with vast reserves of oil, gas and coal all of which it aims to develop in order to enhance its energy security, but, it is also seeking to spearhead a technological revolution in support of its energy transition.
In light of its voracious appetite for energy, its domestic resource potential and its technological ambitions, the way in which China chooses to develop its domestic resource base, consume energy and engage with global markets is of extreme importance to producers, consumers and traders of energy. But the country’s command economy, alongside the dominance of state-owned companies still inform policy design and implementation and are key to understanding the evolution of China’s energy mix and markets.
The China Energy Programme at OIES delves into these developments and offers insights into the factors that inform China’s energy policies and choices.
The Programme is grateful to its Sponsors for their support, without which its research would not be possible.
Research is carried out by the programme staff in close coordination with the other OIES programmes and in collaboration with leading researchers and institutes in China and the West. Research will be disseminated via a dedicated research paper series, energy comments, sponsors’ visits, and specialised events.
For information about the programme and questions, please email: Michal Meidan
In this latest OIES China Energy programme podcast, Michal Meidan talks to Brad Simmons about US policies to re-shore and friend-shore lithium-ion battery supply chains and their incompatibility with efforts to limit dependencies on China. They discuss the electric vehicle subsidies under the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and how tax eligibility is complicated by […]
This is the first edition of the new China Energy Monthly. It includes a selection of the most recent macro and energy data for China including a number of proprietary data sets as well as a brief commentary about short-term trends.
In this podcast, Head of China Energy Research Michal Meidan speaks with Anders Hove, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute, about the topic of clean energy innovation in China. They discuss the factors that have enabled China’s transition into an innovation powerhouse, including often cited government support and subsidy schemes, as well as less appreciated […]
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The development of China’s solar photovoltaics sector may be one of the best witnesses of China’s economic rise and globalization. Having benefited from a free cross-border flow of talent, capital, and technology, China’s solar PV sector took over decades of Western expertise and began to dominate the global market in as short as a decade. […]
This research paper aims to assess the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) role in Europe’s cobalt supply security in the context of the European Critical Raw Materials Act (ECRMA) and the Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA). After reviewing Europe’s need for cobalt and its role in the lithium-ion battery supply chain, it outlines Europe’s strategies […]