On October 22, the AI & RE seminar, part of the Green Power, Green Certificate, and Carbon Trade International Recognition series, was successfully held in Beijing, co-hosted by ECP and iGDP. This event received strong support from the Beijing Office of the Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce and the Administrative Committee of Yihe New District, Linyi City.
ECP and its member companies launched the international recognition seminar series for green power and carbon trading in 2023, making this the third event in the series. Representatives from nearly 50 institutions and companies attended, including the National Energy Administration, the Information and Data Center China Renewable Energy Engineering Institute, Hunton Andrews Kurth, S&P Commodity Insights, SinoCarbon, VNET Group, Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce’s Beijing office, Administrative Committee of Yihe New District, Illinois China Office, China Energy Huachen Holding Group, Aliyun, ConocoPhillips China, IBM, ExxonMobil, Baker Hughes, Emerson, Microsoft, Albemarle, Mitsubishi, Shandong Energy Group, Lukong Water Group, Nanshan Group, Global Data Solutions, Glory Data Group, and Princeton Digital Group, totaling over sixty representatives.
During the speech session, Mr. Yumin Yang, ECP Board Co-Chair and Vice President of ConocoPhillips China, stated that green power, green certificate, and carbon trading are crucial components of the domestic green and low-carbon energy market. This event aims to help foreign member companies and their Chinese partners understand China’s green power, green certificate, and carbon trading markets, promoting low-carbon green energy development and enhancing opportunities for cooperation in clean energy and carbon markets between China and the U.S.
The keynote presentations include policy sharing and industrial sharing by invited experts.
Cui Guangsheng, Deputy Chief of General Affairs Division, New and Renewable Energy Department, National Energy Administration of China, provided the latest insights into “China’s New Energy and Green Power Policy System.” Ai Lin, Deputy Director at Information and Data Center China Renewable Energy Engineering Institute, discussed the “Importance of International Recognition for China’s Green Power and Green Certificate Mechanism,” addressing the issuance and trading of green certificate, the international recognition and the prospects of green certificate. Lin Lishen, Chief Analyst at SinoCarbon, shared insights on “China’s Carbon Market Policies and Trading Status.” Chloe Kwon, an energy policy expert from Hunton Andrews Kurth in the U.S., presented on “Sustainable Development of Clean Energy Power in the U.S.,” covering the basics of renewable energy in the U.S. and considerations and opportunities for investing in related projects.
During the Industrial Sharing and Exchange, Qin Weixiao, Principle Research Analyst at S&P Commodity Insights, presented “The Global Data Center Boom: Is the Green Power Market Keeping Up?”, exploring the impact of data centers on power systems and markets. Dr. Bao Yi, General Manager of Energy Innovation Department at VNET Group, shared “Electricity and Computing Collaboration Supports High-Quality Development of New Infrastructure for China’s Green Energy”, so that data centers can be transformed from a single energy consumer into an important part of a new type of electric power system of source-network-load-storage interaction, and it is only through this model that we can achieve a high proportion of green power and a low price of electricity.
In the Cooperation Exchange and Discussion, Li Xindi, Director of Energy Transition Program, iGDP, facilitated a conversation with Liu Shengli, Director of Data and AI Technology at IBM Greater China, Li Wei, the president of China Energy Huachen Holding Group, Ma Hongxia, China Chief Representative, State of Illinois, and Wang Shoutang, Director of the Investment Promotion Bureau of Yihe New District, on “ AI & RE & Subnational energy and power sector green low carbon development”.
This event was one of the highlights of the ECP Green Power, Green Certificate and Carbon Trade International Recognition seminar series. Through the exchanges and sharing of experts and enterprise representatives at the seminar, and through the platform of ECP, we are looking forward to facilitating more international cooperation. We welcome your continued interest in green power, green certificate, and international recognition, and encourage your participation in the series of activities for the year 2025.
