Invitation

ECECP studies dissemination public event

14:30 – 18:00 Wednesday 13^th December 2023 

A networking cocktail dinner will be held from 18:00 – 20:30.

Results from three studies developed under Component B (business component) of ECECP will be presented at this results dissemination public event. These studies are:

• China Rural Energy Transition: Integrating Renewable Energy, Heating and Transport Sectors – Potential Areas for EU-China Cooperation
• Energy Security in the Context of Energy Transition – Lessons and Challenges within Europe and within China
• Opportunities in LNG, CCUS and Green Hydrogen sectors in China for EU Business: enabling policies and financing needs

China leads the world in adoption of solar power and heat pumps, as well as EVs. In rural areas in particular, solar and EV adoption are booming, especially in eastern China, making this a good time to think about how to pair the technologies and so address the vexed issue of distribution grid inadequacy in rural China. Can bidirectional charging offer a solution that will allow excess solar power to be used in EVs?

ECECP has commissioned a new report “China Rural Energy Transition: Integrating Renewable Energy, Heating and Transport Sectors – Potential Areas for EU-China Cooperation” to look at the prospects for bidirectional charging, and to propose ways for the EU and China to collaborate in order to achieve maximum energy efficiencies as the green transition accelerates.

Written by experts from the Oxford institute of Energy Studies and from the North China Electric Power University, the report includes a brief overview of how China has achieved the switch to solar, and its efforts to clean up rural heating and promote EV adoption. Its authors interview Chinese and European experts on the outlook for bidirectional charging, as well as on how best to cooperate in the fields of power market reform and the low-carbon energy transition.

The second report commissioned by ECECP, “Energy Security in the Context of Energy Transition – Lessons and Challenges within Europe and within China” aims to strengthen the understanding of energy security in China and the EU in the context of the energy transition. Recent extreme weather events and geopolitical tensions have laid bare the vulnerabilities of energy systems throughout the world. Both China and the EU have had to respond rapidly to changeable weather patterns and to energy supply disruptions, and they now face a future where variable renewable energy sources will need to be offset by measures to ensure that households and industries can be assured of a stable energy supply.

This report offers a quantitative assessment of the risks associated with dependence on large-scale variable renewables in the power system, which necessarily rely on variable weather and global temperatures.

As the world accelerates away from current primary energy sources – oil and gas – development of substitutes is gathering pace.  Competition for liquefied natural gas, which means fuel can be brought from a variety of sources with less reliance on geographical limitations has intensified in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Meanwhile, countries worldwide are racing to develop green hydrogen and decarbonisation technologies such as carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) to mitigate emissions from the most polluting industries.

The third report commissioned by ECECP,” Opportunities in LNG, CCUS and Green Hydrogen sector in China for EU Business: enabling policies and financing needs”, offers an analysis of the three technologies in the EU and China, together with an assessment of how they can be included in the two regions’ energy markets, and an evaluation of opportunities for cooperation

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8 GOLDFISH LANE, WANGFUJING, BEIJING 100006

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