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.

With support from Energy Foundation China, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, an affiliation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, released this research report in July 2020 exploring how to achieve sustainable economic growth in Guangzhou with multiple targets of carbon peaking, minimal coal consumption, and air quality attainment.

Due to their concentrated energy consumption, China’s industrial parks have become a key field for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and urban air pollution. In order to help realize deep decarbonization of industrial parks in Henan, a populous province in central China, Energy Foundation China supported the Research Institute of Environmental Sciences at Zhengzhou University to complete this research report, which was published in October 2020.

In July 2020, Wuhan Energy Conservation and Supervision Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, etc. jointly released this report supported by Energy Foundation China. It surveys the current cooling status of the city of 11 million people, analyses existing problems, calculates energy-saving potentials in various cooling fields, and formulates a viable pathway of and supporting policy recommendations for improving cooling efficiency in the city known for its hot summers.

Supported by Energy Foundation China, the Asia-Pacific Consulting Center for Environment and Development and the Center for Global Environmental Policy at Beijing Normal University jointly assessed the co-control effects of industrial deep decarbonization and designed co-control roadmaps for China’s iron and steel and cement sectors.

In 2020, Energy Foundation China supported Planet-Data Inc. to investigate consequences that thermal power plants have on water temperature, chlorophyll concentration, and transparency in China’s southwestern province of Yunnan.

Supported by Energy Foundation China, Peking University and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention assessed health effects of air pollution and corresponding medical and mortality costs, to lend support to decisions relevant to air pollution control and public health improvement strategies. In September 2020, the National School of Development at Peking University released this report with their findings.