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2024-10
Solar savings are heating up for homeowners
Residential rooftop solar is likely to make increasing financial sense, say Tsinghua researchers.Installing solar panels on residential roofs is an increasingly sound investment, researchers in China and the US have shown.Within the lifespan of today’s solar panels, the value of a solar system to household budgets could grow by 19%, equating to significant power bill savings, says the authors ...
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2024-10
2024 Global Carbon Neutrality Annual Progress Report Released in Beijing
On October 17, 2024, the 2024 Global Carbon Neutrality Annual Progress Report, which was led and compiled by Tsinghua University's Institute for Carbon Neutrality and School of Environment, was released in Beijing.As of May 2024, 148 countries around the world had made explicit commitments on carbon neutrality. All 198 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change had imp...
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2024-08
Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation (CNEST) Seminar held in Huzhou
On August 15, the Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation (CNEST) Seminar was held during the 2024 Green Low-Carbon Innovation Conference in Huzhou. The seminar aimed to explore the theme of energy system transformation towards carbon neutrality, promote the multilateral cooperation program “Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation (CNEST)” initiated by Tsinghua Universit...
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2024-06
Tsinghua professor Kang Chongqing wins IEEE PES Peter W. Sauer Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award（Graduate）
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recently announced the PES Society-Level Awards. Kang Chongqing, the chief scientist in new-type power system research center of ICON, and a professor in Tsinghua’s Department of Electrical Engineering, won the IEEE PES Peter W. Sauer Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award (Graduate) for his contribution to education and mentor...
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2024-05
The ICON jointly organized the 2024 Nature Conference on “Air Pollution and Climate Change”
From May 22 to 24, the “Air Pollution and Climate Change” conference jointly organized by the Institute for Carbon Neutrality of Tsinghua University（ICON, Tsinghua）, the School of Environment of Tsinghua University, and several journals of Nature was held in Beijing. More than 300 experts and scholars from domestic and foreign universities and research institutions such as China, the United...
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2024-05
Deloitte’s sustainable development and climate change business group visited the ICON
On May 30, several experts from Deloitte’s Sustainable Development and Climate Change Business Group visited the Institute for Carbon Neutrality of Tsinghua University (ICON, Tsinghua). The visiting experts included Andrea Culligan, the Global Deloitte GreenSpace Technology Lead Partner and Australian Innovation and Venture Capital Lead Partner, Li Xiaochen, the Deloitte China Sustainable Deve...
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2024-05
CELL PRESS Journal exchange lecture successfully held at ICON
On May 16th, the Institute for Carbon Neutrality of Tsinghua University(ICON, Tsinghua) and the Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy of Tsinghua University jointly organized a lecture, inviting Philip Earis, editor-in-chief of Joule, Zhang Shanshan, scientific editor of One Earth, and Yang Nan, scientific editor of Chem Catalysis, to introduce relevant CELL PRESS journals, and exchanged...
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2024-05
The second Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation (CNEST) Forum successfully held
On May 10, 2024, the Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation (CNEST) Forum was successfully held at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University during Nexus Forum 2024. The CNEST forum was jointly organized by the Institute for Carbon Neutrality of Tsinghua University (ICON, Tsinghua) and the International Urban Energy Research Center of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and invited sev...
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2024-04
The first Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation (CNEST) Frontier Seminar was successfully held
On April 29, 2024, the first Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation (CNEST) Frontier Seminar was successfully held at the Institute for Carbon Neutrality of Tsinghua University (ICON, Tsinghua). This seminar invited Steven P. Hamburg, Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and Jiang Lin, Nat Simons Chair Scientist in China Energy Policy at...
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2024-04
The first Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation (CNEST) Forum was successfully held
On April 24, 2024, the 8th Annual Conference of the China Energy Modeling Forum was held in Beijing. During the annual conference, the “Sub-Forum on Carbon and Energy System Management and Mechanism in Zero-carbon Industrial Parks and the First Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation (CNEST) Forum” was successfully held.The first CNEST forum was co-hosted by the Institute for Carbo...
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