During 2019–2020, Energy Foundation China supported the School of Architecture, Tsinghua university to predict China’s future population and spatial distribution, key factors influencing the country’s urbanization process. Their findings were released in this report in October 2020.

In November 2020, Shenzhen Institute of Building Research completed this report on the electrification of buildings, with support from Energy Foundation China.

In September 2020, the State Information Center of China released this report with Energy Foundation China’s support. One of the 18 sub-projects of the foundation’s flagship project on China’s long-term deep decarbonization strategy, this report uses a macroeconomic forecasting model and a dynamic computable general equilibrium model to analyze China’s socio-economic development by 2025, 2035, and 2050.

In summer 2020, with support from Energy Foundation China, the Chinese Academy of Fiscal Sciences published this research report highlighting fiscal and taxation policy changes that can help make China’s economic growth more green and low carbon.

In September 2020, the National Center for Climate Change Strategy Research and International Cooperation released this report supported by Energy Foundation China (EF China) on China’s climate governance and international cooperation strategies.

In July 2020, with support from Energy Foundation China, Ningbo International Investment Consulting Company completed this roadmap study that aims to help improve the city’s cooling efficiency.

In October 2020, the World Resources Institute released this report on pumped-storage hydroelectricity (PSH), with support from Energy Foundation China. After analyzing current PSH policy and practice in China, the report identifies opportunities to develop more PSH as a viable solution for reducing renewable energy curtailment and coal demand. It also provides policy recommendations for accelerated PSH growth, so as to help healthy renewable energy expansion in the country.

Since the beginning of 2019, Energy Foundation China has supported the China Renewable Energy Engineering Institute to study on clean energy development and cooperation among members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Working with six other research organizations, the institute finished this report on renewable energy in November 2020.