Jiang Lin

Job title: 
Research Professor
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About 

Dr. Jiang Lin is the Nat Simons Presidential Chair in China Energy Policy at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, a Staff Scientist at its Department of Energy Market and Policy, and a Research Professor at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Lin's research is focused on energy and climate policy, energy and emissions pathways with a focus on non-CO2 GHGs (methane, F-gas, and etc.), electricity market and planning, low-carbon economic transition and appliance efficiency issues in China.

Publications

  1. Feng, YB, J Lin, F Song, and MS Ho, 2025, “Performance and challenges of power sector reform in China since 2015,”  iScience, Volume 28, Issue 10, 113461, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113461

  2. Jiang Lin and Liqun Peng, 2025, “Benchmarking China’s power system transition: Why China should set ambitious new goals for its share of non-fossil electricity generation,” Next Energy, Vol. 9, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nxener.2025.100409

  1. Liqun Peng, Gang He, Jiang Lin, 2025, “Role of pumped hydro storage in China’s power system decarbonization,” The Electricity Journal, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tej.2025.107487

  2. Q Luo, LQ Peng, G He, and J Lin, 2025,"Cost-effectiveness of removing the last 10-20% emissions of China's power sector,"Environ. Res. Lett.20 044035
  3. Khanna N, J Lin, X Liu, and WJ Wang, 2024, “An Assessment of China’s Methane Mitigation Potential and Costs and Uncertainties through 2060,”  Nat Commun15, 9694

  4. Park et al., 2024, “A Clean Energy Korea by 2035: Transitioning to 80% Carbon-Free Electricity Generation,” Cell Reports Sustainability.

  5. HZ Yang, Q Luo, G He, J Lin, J Johnson, F Garcia-Menendez, O Deschenes, A Mileva and R Deshmukh, 2024, “Regional disparities in health and employment outcomes of China's transition to a low-carbon electricity system,” Environ. Res.: Energy

  6. Fritz Kahrl and Jiang Lin, 2024, “Changing economics of China’s power system suggest that batteries and renewables may be a lower cost way to meet peak demand growth than coal,” iScience

  7. Q Luo, F Garcia-Menendez, J Lin, G He, and JX Johnson, “Accelerating China's power sector decarbonization can save lives: integrating public health goals into power sector decisions,” Env. Res. Letters

  8. CX Xiang, XY Zheng, F Song, J Lin*, ZG Jiang, 2023, “Assessing the roles of efficient market versus regulatory capture in China’s power market reform,” Nature Energy

  9. ZH Wang, H Li, B Zhang, B Wang, H Li, X Tian, J Lin, and W Feng, 2023, “Clean alternatives to heating gaps of combined heat and power withdraw under climate goals will disproportionately increase residential heating costs,” Nature Energy

  10. Q Luo, F Garcia-Menendez, HZ Yang, R Deshmukh, G He, J Lin, and JX Johnson, “The Health and Climate Benefits of Economic Dispatch in China’s Power System,” Environ. Sci. Technol. 2023 57 (7), 2898-2906

  11. Chen, Y.; Lin, J.; Roland-Holst, D.; Liu, X.; Wang, C. Declining Renewable Costs, Emissions Trading, and Economic Growth: China’s Power System at the Crossroads. Energies 2023, 16, 656.

  12. WJ Wang, N Khanna, J Lin, and X Liu, 2023 “Black Carbon Emissions in China: 2015–2050,” Journal of Environmental Management, Vol 329, 2023.

  13. N Abhyankar, J Lin*, F Kahrl, SF Yin, U Paliwal X Liu, N Khanna, Q Luo D Wooley, M O’Boyle, O Ashmoore, R Orvis, M Solomon, A Phadke, 2022, “Achieving an 80% carbon-free electricity system in China by 2035,” iScience

  14. J Lin, N Khanna, X Liu, WJ Wang, J Gordon, and F Dai, 2022, “Opportunities to tackle short-lived climate pollutants and other greenhouse gases for China,” SciTotEnv

  15. T Ding, YG Sun; C Huang; CL Mu; YQ Fan; J Lin; and YN Qin, 2022, “Pathways of clean energy heating electrification programs for reducing carbon emissions in Northwest China,”Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 

  16. J Lin, N Abhyankar, G He, X Liu, S Yin, 2022, Large balancing areas and dispersed renewable investment enhances grid flexibility in a renewable-dominant power system in China, iScience

  17. Liu Z., Z Deng, G He, H Wang, X Zhang, J Lin, Y Qi, and X Liang, “Challenges and opportunities for carbon neutrality in China,” Nat Rev Earth Environ (2021).

  18. F Kahrl, J Lin*, X Liu, JF Hu, 2021, “Sunsetting coal power in China,” iScience (2021)

  19. JF Hu, QY Yan, F Kahrl, X Liu, P Wang, J Lin, 2021, “Evaluating the ancillary services market for large-scale renewable energy integration in China's northeastern power grid,” Utility Policy (2021)

  20. G He; J Lin; Y Zhang; WH Zhang; G Larangeira; C Zhang; W Peng; MZ Liu; FQ Yang, 2020, “Enabling a rapid and just transition away from coal in China,” One Earth

  21. W Du, M Li, Ke Li, and J Lin, “Impact of Energy Market Distortions on the Productivity of Energy Enterprises in China,” September, 2020, the Energy Journal.

  22. NF O’Neill, JM Ma, DC Walther, LR Brockway, C Ding, J Lin, 2020, "A Modified Total Equivalent Warming Impact Analysis:  Addressing Direct and Indirect Emissions Due to Corrosion", STOTEN

  23. A Phadke, N Shah, J Lin, WY Park, YS Zhang, D Zaelke, C Ding and N Karali, “Chinese Policy Leadership Would Cool Global Air Conditioning Impacts: Looking East,” 2020, Energy Research & Social Sciences

  24. He, G, J Lin, F Sifuentes, X Liu, N Abhyankar, and A Phadke. “Rapid cost decrease of renewables and storage accelerates the decarbonization of China’s power system”. Nat Commu, 11, 2486 (2020)

  25. J Lin*, X Liu, G He, 2020, “Regional electricity demand and economic transition in China,” Utilities Policy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2020.101047

  26. N Abhyankar, J Lin*, X Liu, F Sifuentes, 2020, “Economic and environmental benefits of market-based power-system reform in China: A case study of the Southern grid system,” Resources, Conservation and Recycling 153

  27. N Karali, N Shah, WY Park, N Khanna, C Ding, J Lin, N Zhou, 2020, “Improving the energy efficiency of room air conditioners in China: Costs and benefits,” Applied Energy.

  28. J Lin*, N Khana, X Liu, F Teng, and X Wang, 2019, “China’s Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Future Trajectories and Mitigation Options and Potential,” Scientific Reports

  29. Jiang Lin*, Fredrich Kahrl, Jiahai Yuan, Xu Liu and Weirong Zhang. "Challenges and strategies for electricity market transition in China"Energy Policy 133 (2019) 110899.

  30. Li, Hao, Jiang Lin*, Yuhuan Zhao, and Jia-Ning Kang. “Identifying the driving factors of energy-water nexus in Beijing from both economy- and sector-wide perspectives.” Journal of Cleaner Production, July 2019

  31. Hao Li, Yuhuan Zhao*, Jiang Lin*. A review of the energy–carbon–water nexus: Concepts, research focuses, mechanisms, and methodologies. WIREs Energy and Environment, 2019.

  32. Hao Li, Yuhuan Zhao*, Song Wang, Jiang Lin. Scenario analysis of ETS revenue allocation mechanism of China: based on a dynamic CGE model. Environ Science and Pollution Research, 2019.

  33. Xu Liu, Jiang Lin*, Junfeng Hu*, Hongyou Lu, and Jiaru Cai. "Economic Transition, Technology Change, and Energy Consumption in China: A Provincial-Level Analysis."Energies 12.13 (2019) 2581.

  34. Hu, Junfeng, Qingyou Yan, Xingmei Li, Zhong-Zhong Jiang, Fredrich Kahrl, Jiang Lin*, and Peng Wang*. “A cooperative game-based mechanism for allocating ancillary service costs associated with wind power integration in Chinahttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2019.05.008.” Utilities Policy vol 58, June 2019. 

  35. Jiang Lin*, F. Kahrl, JH Yuan, QX Chen, and X Liu, 2019, “Economic and carbon emission impacts of electricity market transition in China: A case study of Guangdong Province,” Applied Energy

  36. Jiang Lin, 2018, “China’s electricity switch won’t be swift or painless,” Nature, DOI: 10.1038/d41586-018-06894-0

  37. CH Springer, S Evans, J Lin, and D Roland-Holst, 2018, “Low Carbon Growth in China: The Role of Emissions Trading in a Transitioning Economy,” Applied Energy

  38. H Huang, D Roland-Holst, C Springer, J Lin, W Cai, C Wang, 2019, “Emissions trading systems and social equity: A CGE assessment for China.” Applied Energy

  39. J Lin, DG Fridley, HY Lou, LK Price, and N Zhou, 2018, "Has coal use peaked in China: Near-term trends in China’s coal consumption,"Energy Policy
  40. SY Liu, CH Bie, J Lin, XF Wang, 2018, “Curtailment of renewable energy in Northwest China and market-based solutions, Energy Policy 123.
  41. Wang Xin, Teng Fei, Zhang Jingjing, Nina Khana, and Jiang Lin, 2017, “Challenges to addressing non-CO2 greenhouse gases in China’s long-term climate strategy,” Climate Policy
  42. Jiang Lin, Fredrich Kahrl, Xu Liu, 2018, "A Regional Analysis of Excess Capacity in China’s Power Systems," Resources, Conservation, and Recycling 129 (2018) 93-101
  43. Qing Shen, Simin Xu, and Jiang Lin, 2017, “Effects of Bus Transit-Oriented Development (BTOD) on Single-Family Property Value in Seattle Metropolitan Area,” Urban Studies

  44. Jiang Lin, Gang He, and Alexandria Yuan, 2016, “Economic Rebalancing and Changing Electricity Demand in China,” the Electricity Journal 29 (2016), pp 48-54

  45. Jiang Lin, Nan Zhou, Mark D. Levine, and David Fridley, 2008, “Taking out 1 billion tons of CO2: The magic of China's 11th Five-Year Plan?” Energy Policy, 36 (3): 954-970. 

  46. Jiang Lin and Gregory Rosenquist, 2008, “Stay cool with less work: China's new energy-efficiency standards for air conditioners,” Energy Policy, 36 (3): 1090-1095.

  47. Jiang Lin and Maithili Iyer, 2007, “Cold or Hot Wash: technological choices, cultural change, and their impact on clothes washing energy use in China,” Energy Policy 35 (5): 3046-3052.

  48. Jiang Lin, 2007, “Energy Conservation Investments: A Comparison between China and the U.S.,” Energy Policy 35 (2): 916-924.

  49. Jiang Lin, 2005, “A light diet for a giant appetite: An assessment of China’s fluorescent lamp standard,” Energy, 30 (10): 1873-1887.

  50. Jiang Lin, 2002, “Appliance Standards and Labeling Programs in China,” Annual Review of Energy and Environment, Vol. 27: 349–367.

  51. Jiang Lin, 1995, "Changing Kinship Structure and its Implications for Old Age Support in Urban and Rural China," Population Studies, 1995.

  52. Jiang Lin, 1994, "Parity and Security: A Simulation Study of Population Aging and Old Age Security in Rural China", Population and Development Review, June, 1994.

Research interests: 
Energy and climate policy, energy and emissions pathways, electricity market and planning, low-carbon economics transition and appliance efficiency issues in China
Role: 
Adjunct Faculty

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Contact

lin.jiang@berkeley.edu
(510) 495-8886