TT26 Energy Seminar – Week 3: China clean energy innovation and the global clean energy transition
Anders Hove, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies China Energy Programme
- Start Tuesday 12 May 2026 5:00pm
- Finish Tuesday 12 May 2026 6:15pm
- Venue Diversity Room - ECI, OUCE
- Postcode OX1 3PY
- Register for event
Summary: It has been nearly a decade since China began to be recognised as a global clean energy technology leader, rather than just a low-cost manufacturing centre for commoditised or copycat goods. What policies, institutions, and economic forces support clean energy innovation in China? What can other countries learn from China’s success, if anything? Will China have a permanent or durable advantage in the energy industries of the future? While most analysis of China focuses on policy and the scale of China’s market, for countries and companies looking to engage and/or compete with China, it is also important to recognise the importance of process-level innovation, tacit learning, and economic clustering strategies.
Speaker: Anders Hove is Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies China Energy Programme. Until 2022, he lived in Beijing, where he most recently served as project director at GIZ for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK)-funded Sino-German Energy Transition Project. He has more than 25 years of public and private sector experience related to energy policy and markets, including nine years on Wall Street and 12 years in China. Hove has both a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from MIT.