Wei Peng
Wei is broadly interested in the interactions of policies for renewable energy, air pollution and climate in country-specific political environment. Her dissertation focuses on designing China’s wind energy strategy to maximize environmental benefits, and the domestic policy conditions to enable such strategy. She conducts integrated assessments to quantify air quality and climate benefits for various near-term and mid-term wind development pathways in China, based on which she further analyzes the capacity of existing policy to enable such wind energy strategy in China’s current electricity market featured by the dominance of state-owned enterprises and complex central-local relations. She is especially interested in how to facilitate inter-provincial renewable electricity transport to help renewable integration and maximize displaced emissions.