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Article

What China’s Environmental Policy Means for PV Solar, Electric Vehicles, and Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies

by
Hamid M. Pouran
1,*,
Seyed M. Karimi
2,
Mariana Padilha Campos Lopes
3 and
Yong Sheng
4
1
Faculty of Science and Engineering, The University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna St., Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, UK
2
Department of Health Management & System Sciences, School of Public Health & Information Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA
3
Electrical Engineering Program, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, CT, I-156, Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro 21941-901, Brazil
4
School of Computer Science, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Energies 2022, 15(23), 9037; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15239037
Submission received: 15 September 2022 / Revised: 21 November 2022 / Accepted: 24 November 2022 / Published: 29 November 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Policies and Strategies for Clean Energy Transition)
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Abstract

This perspective paper elaborates on how the burden of environmental issues on public health and the economy led China’s government to declare its revised environmental policies or “war on pollution”. It explains the importance of photovoltaic solar (PV), electric vehicles (EV), and carbon capture and storage (CCS) in helping China to mitigate its environmental concerns while maintaining economic growth. China already leads PV solar and EV manufacturing; however, it has not made a tangible contribution to CCS technology yet. On the other hand, CCS is far behind its envisaged role in contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and supporting countries to meet their net carbon zero targets. China’s existing coal power plants are good candidates to be retrofitted with CCS. Similar to PV and EV technologies, China could influence this technology globally, by reducing the uncertainties, demonstrating the viability, and driving the costs lower. China’s revised policies have been effective and shown global impacts, but their implementations remain as strong as the political will behind them.
Keywords: environmental technologies; China environmental policy; PV solar; electric vehicles; carbon capture and storage (CCS); innovation environmental technologies; China environmental policy; PV solar; electric vehicles; carbon capture and storage (CCS); innovation

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Pouran, H.M.; Karimi, S.M.; Padilha Campos Lopes, M.; Sheng, Y. What China’s Environmental Policy Means for PV Solar, Electric Vehicles, and Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies. Energies 2022, 15, 9037. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15239037

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Pouran HM, Karimi SM, Padilha Campos Lopes M, Sheng Y. What China’s Environmental Policy Means for PV Solar, Electric Vehicles, and Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies. Energies. 2022; 15(23):9037. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15239037

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Pouran, Hamid M., Seyed M. Karimi, Mariana Padilha Campos Lopes, and Yong Sheng. 2022. "What China’s Environmental Policy Means for PV Solar, Electric Vehicles, and Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies" Energies 15, no. 23: 9037. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15239037

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Pouran, H. M., Karimi, S. M., Padilha Campos Lopes, M., & Sheng, Y. (2022). What China’s Environmental Policy Means for PV Solar, Electric Vehicles, and Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies. Energies, 15(23), 9037. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15239037

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