Gang He

Gang He

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Bio

Gang He is a Visiting Faculty Affiliate for the China Energy Group, Energy Technologies Area, at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as well as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology and Society, at Stony Brook University. He has worked with the China Energy Group since 2011. His work focuses on energy modeling, energy economics, energy and climate policy, energy and environment, domestic coal and power sectors and their key role in both the global energy supply and in international climate policy framework. He also studies other interdisciplinary aspects of global climate change and the development of lower-carbon energy sources. Prior to Berkeley, he was a research associate with Stanford University's Program on Energy and Sustainable Development from 2008 to 2010.

Education

Energy and Resources, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2015
Climate and Society, MA, Columbia University, 2008
Geography, BS, Peking University, 2003

Publications

2023

The Health and Climate Benefits of Economic Dispatch in China’s Power System

Authors: Luo, Qian; Fernando Garcia-Menendez; Haozhe Yang; Ranjit Deshmukh; Gang He; Jiang Lin, and Jeremiah X. Johnson.
02/2023

2022

Large balancing areas and dispersed renewable investment enhance grid flexibility in a renewable-dominant power system in China

Authors: Lin, Jiang; Nikit Abhyankar; Gang He; Xu Liu, and Shengfei Yin.
02/2022

2021

Challenges and opportunities for carbon neutrality in China

Authors: Liu, , Zhu; Zhu Deng; Gang He; Hailin Wang; Xiang Zhang; Jiang Lin; Ye Qi, and Xi Liang.
12/2021

Enhancing grid flexibility under scenarios of a renewable-dominant power system in China

Authors: Lin, Jiang; Nikit Abhyankar; Gang He; Xu Liu, and Shengfei Yin.
08/2021

2020

Rapid cost decrease of renewable energy and storage offers an opportunity to accelerate the decarbonization of China’s power system

Authors: He, Gang; Jiang Lin; Froylan Sifuentes; Xu Liu; Nikit Abhyankar, and Amol A. Phadke.
03/2020

Rapid cost decrease of renewable energy and storage offers an opportunity to accelerate the decarbonization of China’s power system

Authors: He, Gang; Jiang Lin; Froylan Sifuentes; Xu Liu; Nikit Abhyankar, and Amol A. Phadke.
03/2020

Rapid cost decrease of renewables and storage accelerates the decarbonization of China’s power system

Authors: He, Gang; Jiang Lin; Froylan Sifuentes; Xu Liu; Nikit Abhyankar, and Amol A. Phadke.
01/2020

Enabling a Rapid and Just Transition away from Coal in China

Authors: He, Gang; Jiang Lin; Ying Zhang; Wenhua Zhang; Guilherme Larangeira; Chao Zhang; Wei Peng; Manzhi Liu, and Fuqiang Yang.
01/2020

Regional electricity demand and economic transition in China

Authors: Lin, Jiang; Xu Liu, and Gang He.
01/2020

2016

Low-Carbon City Policy Databook

Authors: Price, Lynn K.; Nan Zhou; David Fridley; Stephanie Ohshita; Nina Khanna; Hongyou Lu; Lixuan Hong; Gang He; John Romankiewicz, and Hu Min.
07/2016

Economic Rebalancing and Electricity Demand in China

Authors: Lin, Jiang; Gang He, and Alexandria Yuan.
04/2016

White Paper on Benefit Analysis of Smart Grid Projects

Authors: Marnay, Chris; Liping Liu; JianCheng Yu; Dong Zhang; Josh Mauzy; Brendan Shaffer; XuZhu Dong; Will Agate; Silvia Vitiello; GuoQi Ren; Cheng Yao; Xial Hong; XuDong Wang; Jia Song; TianHao Wang; Lei Wu; Jing Zhao; Nihan Karali; Gang He; Kevin Clampitt; Robert J Yinger; Han Zhu; Li Zhao; Scott Samuelsen; David Smith; Jayant Kumar; Fengshun Jiao; Dazhong Zou; Jinsong Zhang; Ming Xiao; Sheng Tang; Zhikeng Li; Xiaozhen Li; Tyler Shiqiao Yan; Limingming Zhu, and Xu Liu.

2015

Towards uniform benefit-cost analysis for smart grid projects: an example using the Smart Grid Computational Tool

Authors: Karali, Nihan; Chris Marnay; Tyler Shiqiao Yan; Gang He; Robert J Yinger; Josh Mauzey; Kevin Clampitt, and Han Zhu.
12/2015

A Review of Commercially Available Technologies for Developing Low-Carbon Eco-cities

Authors: Zhou, Nan; Gang He; John Romankiewicz; David Fridley, and Cecilia Fino-Chen.
05/2015

Promoting Energy Efficiency as the First Fuel Through Enabling Local Government Action in China

Authors: Price, Lynn K.; Nan Zhou; David Fridley; Stephanie Ohshita; Gang He; Hu Min; Yong Zhou, and Lixuan Hong.
03/2015

ELITE Cities: A Low-carbon Eco-city Evaluation Tool for China

Authors: Zhou, Nan; Gang He; Christopher J. Williams, and David Fridley.
01/2015

Low Carbon Development for Cities: Methods and Measures

Authors: Ohshita, Stephanie; Nan Zhou; Lynn K. Price; David Fridley; Nina Khanna; Lixuan Hong; Hongyou Lu; Cecilia Fino-Chen; Gang He, and Jinyue Yan.

Urban form as a “first fuel” for low-carbon mobility in Chinese cities: strategies for energy and carbon saving in the transport sector

Authors: Ohshita, Stephanie; David Fridley; Nina Khanna; Nan Zhou; Gang He; Lixuan Hong, and Yong Zhou.

2014

Is Your City Really Sustainable? A Tale of Jinan City Using Quantitative Low- Carbon Eco-city Tools

Authors: He, Gang; Nan Zhou; Lixuan Hong; David Fridley, and Yong Zhou.
08/2014

2013

ELITE Cities: A low-carbon Eco-city Evaluation Tool for China

Authors: He, Gang; Nan Zhou; Christopher J. Williams, and David Fridley.
06/2013

2012

China’s Development of Low- Carbon Eco-Cities and Associated Indicator Systems

Authors: Zhou, Nan; Gang He, and Christopher J. Williams.
07/2012

Measuring in All the Right Places: Themes in International Municipal Eco-City Index Systems

Authors: Williams, Christopher J.; Nan Zhou; Gang He, and Mark D. Levine.
06/2012