Can China's Hydrogen Pilot Cities Help the Low-Carbon Transition? - with Arabella Miller-Wang
Release Date: 05/02/2023
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info_outlineIn today's episode we’re talking about hydrogen development in China, and its potential – or not – for helping with the country’s dual carbon goals: carbon peaking and carbon neutrality.
Our guest is Arabella Miller-Wang, recently an Aramco fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and also a Research Assistant at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. She has recently published a paper entitled, "China’s Hydrogen Development: A Tale of Three Cities," which discusses the issue of China’s hydrogen strategy based on the experiences and plans of the pilot hydrogen clusters located in Datong, Shanxi province, Chengdu in Sichuan province, and Zhangjiakou in the northern part of Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing.
The paper can be found here: https://www.oxfordenergy.org/publications/chinas-hydrogen-development-a-tale-of-three-cities/