Members of GW Engineering’s Environmental and Energy Management Institute (EEMI) convened with colleagues from the International Fund for China’s Environment (IFCE) and the Chinese Electric Power Development Association to discuss approaches to low carbon development in China on September 16, 2024.
Leading the Chinese delegation was Dr. Ping He, President of the IFCE, and Mr. Ying Guangwei, Chairman of the Low-Carbon Energy and Smart Power Professional Committee of the China Electric Power Development Association. The GW delegation was led by Dr. Payman Dehghanian, Director of GW Engineering’s Smart Grid Laboratory and EEMI Director of Smart Grid Technologies; Professor Scott Sklar, Director of Sustainable Energy at EEMI; and Dr. Jonathan Deason, Executive Director of EEMI.
During the meeting, delegates discussed three topics related to low carbon development in China. The first topic involved overarching global trends in decarbonizing electricity generation, followed by an overview of China's new low-carbon power system presented by Mr. Guangwei. The meeting concluded with a discussion of innovation and the development of smart power systems. Moving forward, the participating organizations are anticipated to pursue partnership activities, particularly through GW Engineering’s Smart Grid Laboratory.
Additionally, delegates discussed the possibility of another visit to GW Engineering by Mr. Mei Dewen, Secretary-General of the Beijing Emissions Trading Association and member of the China Low Carbon Development Research Center at Peking University. Such a visit would be a follow-up to a previous trip to GW Engineering in 2016 when Mr. Mei was the keynote speaker at an EEMI-conducted symposium on “China’s National Carbon Trading System” held in the Science and Engineering Hall’s Lehman Auditorium.