How may tension and conflict in oil, gas and mineral markets undermine future global peace and economic development? Which new modes of behaviour can promote an appropriate balance between competition and collaboration? Possible answers to these key questions stem from the EU project on the...

With an installed capacity of 56 GWe, China has the world’s third largest fleet of civil nuclear reactors after the U.S. and France and its ambitious expansion programme will give it the largest fleet by 2030. The government’s policy objectives driving this programme are fourfold: enhancing...

The global low-carbon energy transition will require major changes to institutional practices and energy industry paradigms with implications for society writ large. A country's existing institutional pattern inevitably shapes the transition, and helps or hinders its progress. This is perhaps...

With an installed capacity of 56 GWe, China has the world's third largest fleet of civil nuclear reactors after the U.S. and France and its ambitious expansion programme will give it the largest fleet by 2030. The government's policy objectives driving this programme are fourfold: enhancing...

Rare earth elements (REEs) have many uses in the energy and defence industries, among others, and demand for them is set to increase rapidly in support of the low-carbon energy transition. Although the REEs are not geologically rare, China dominates the supply chain, accounting for 70% of global...

This paper analyzes China's policy approach to renewable energies and assesses how effectively China has met the ideal of appropriate interactions between renewable energy policy and renewable energy industrial policy. First we briefly discuss the interactions between these two policies. Then we...

The last twenty years have seen a growth of both solar PV manufacturing capacity and the deployment of solar PV in China, yet this growth has followed a very erratic path. This study applies the concept of socio-technical regime to identify factors which have made this path so erratic. We...

Multi-national energy and mining companies used to play a significant role in exploring and exploiting Southeast Asia's energy and mineral resources. Their involvement has steadily declined as larger deposits have become available for exploitation elsewhere in the world, and under more...

The global low-carbon energy transition will require major changes to institutional practices and energy industry paradigms with implications for society writ large. A country’s existing institutional pattern inevitably shapes the transition, and helps or hinders its progress. This is perhaps...

This study applies a regional public goods approach to the study of energy market integration (EMI) in East Asia, with a view to clarifying the outlook for such integration and the likely obstacles to be encountered. In addition to drawing on theoretical ideas relating to regional public goods,...