卓尔德环境研究中心 · DERC Beijing
Projects, studies and platforms, newest first
Day-ahead zonal market clearing for 33 provincial zones, published daily as an open web app.
PyPSA · dispatch · market design · AGPL-3.0
Provincial, hourly capacity-expansion modelling of China's electricity and heat system against a 2035 NDC framing.
PyPSA · snakemake · capacity expansion · MIT
With CREA: differentiated coal dispatch cuts emissions 11% in 2025 and system cost 2.5% by 2030.
CREA · coal flexibility · dispatch · Nov 2025
A multi-year dialogue series on where trade policy, climate commitments and security concerns collide.
dialogue series · 2025–2030 · launched Dec 2024
Four Draworld indices on security, market coupling, market-based pricing and carbon rate.
indices · ReGini · MACI · EMPI · Carbon · May 2024
Why curtailment in China is a rules-and-operations problem, not an interprovincial-protectionism problem.
renewable integration · market design · Jul 2023
Book by chief economist Shawn Zhang on the transformation of China's power system.
book · ontology · epistemology · year to confirm
With CREA: available generation at peak demand, and why interprovincial balancing beats new coal.
CREA · adequacy · ELCC · Sept 2022
A long-running column in Energy Magazine building criteria for judging which emission cuts are worth making.
column · Energy Magazine · from Jul 2021
Joint workshop with China Dialogue on reading the 14th Five-Year Plan against carbon neutrality by 2060.
workshop · China Dialogue · Apr 2021
2020, with CREA: post-2020 coal build plans contradict the 2060 neutrality target.
CREA · NDC · coal phase-out · Nov 2020
2017–2019, for the National Energy Administration: generation mix and market price from the residual load duration curve.
NEA · RLDC · 2017–2019
2017, funded by Greenpeace: energy, air quality, green jobs and growth benefits of renewable expansion.
Greenpeace · co-benefits · Apr 2017
The centre's two long-standing in-house models: a multi-region energy–economy–climate IAM and an hourly power balance model.
core tools · IAM · hourly balance
