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China’s EV Ultrafast Charging Stations: Challenges, Solutions, and Costs

August 13, 2025

Newswise — A new study published in Engineering delves into the future of ultrafast charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs) in China, exploring charging patterns, grid impacts, solutions, and upgrade costs. As the global EV market continues to...

Unlocking clean hydrogen mobility: A strategic guide

May 05, 2025

The global transition to a low-carbon economy requires the large-scale deployment of clean energy technologies, fundamentally reshaping value chains and stakeholder dynamics. Among these technologies, hydrogen—long integral to the energy and chemical...

Nicola De Blasio

The Green Star State

February 24, 2025

By Jonathan Shaw, Harvard Magazine THE COST OF PRODUCING renewable energy from both wind and sun continues to fall, prompting a boom in sustainable electricity production. But this has also led to an auspicious problem: what to do with the excess energy...

Announcing the Inaugural Recipients of the Mittal Institute Faculty Climate Research Grants

February 07, 2025

The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute is pleased to announce its first recipients of the Faculty Climate Research Grants. These grants are designed to foster deeper scholarly engagement on climate change, catalyze the creation of new...

Ending high-emission coal is key to China’s methane reduction

December 06, 2024

By focusing on shuttering mines with high gas content, China could reduce future coal methane emissions by 26%, writes Liu Qiang, former Fellow at the Harvard-China project and current Ph.D. candidate at Tsinghua University Reducing methane emissions was...

Texas: A Hub for Green Hydrogen, A Key for Decarbonization

December 02, 2024

In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the Harvard-China Project assessed Texas' optimized grid-integrated supply paths for green hydrogen, ranging from local applications to potential export...

Dr. Gabriël Clemens on how hydrogen is driving forward the energy transition

October 01, 2024

As scientists continue to explore the potential use of green hydrogen—a zero-carbon energy carrier and chemical feedstock that can be used to replace fossil fuels in “hard-to-abate” industries, transportation, and other sectors, the Harvard-China Project...

Climate research goes national

October 01, 2024

Xing spends summer with Harvard-China Project By SEAS Communications | Matt Goisman As a member of Harvard’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders, Emily Xing knowshow engineering can impact local communities, but she also wanted to understand how...

Michael B. McElroy awarded William Bowie Medal, highest honor of the American Geophysical Union

September 18, 2024

Earth scientist will receive the Union’s top award at a December ceremony MICHAEL B. MCELROY, the Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at Harvard University and Chair of the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy, and Environment, has been...

HCP Highlights: Academic Year 2023-24

May 24, 2024

As the academic year 2023-24 draws to a close, we congratulate Harvard's newest class of graduates! We also pause to reflect on a year chock-full of research, knowledge exchange, and connection with our network of collaborators in Cambridge, China, and...

Warming Arctic Reduces Dust Levels in Parts of the Planet

April 26, 2024

Research finds anti-desertification measures needed in tandem with emission reductions
 By Leah Burrows | View the article on the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences website Climate change is a global phenomenon, but its impacts are...

Salata Institute Funds Eight New Climate Research Projects

April 11, 2024

Today, the Salata Institute announced a third round of seed grant awards for work on understudied and emerging topics in climate and sustainability. The funded proposals, which includes one from the Harvard-China Project, include research into new methods...