All Publications

  1. Shangwei Liu, Gang He, Minghao Qiu, Daniel M. Kammen (2025). Can China break the 'cost curse' of nuclear power? Nature, 643: 1186–1188. Link
    Coverage: New York Times, The Economist, Harvard Belfer, CUNY, JHU
    My comment blog for Roosevelt Institute
    Social media (X, Facebook, etc.): millions of views, wide discussion
  2. Bo Li, Ruotao Yu, Kaiye Gan, Guangchun Ruan, Wei Dai, Shangwei Liu, Mingxia Yang, Haiwang Zhong (2025). A Large-Scale Residential Load Dataset in Extreme Weather Events: A Case in Southern China. Scientific Data, 12, 450. Link
  3. Jing Liang, Yueming (Lucy) Qiu, Bo Wang, Xingchi Shen, Shangwei Liu (2025). Impacts of heatwaves on electricity reliability: Evidence from power outage data in China. iScience, 111855. Link
  4. Shangwei Liu, Yang Guo, Fabian Wagner, Hongxun Liu, Ryna Yiyun Cui, Denise L. Mauzerall (2024). Diversifying heat sources in China's urban district heating systems will reduce risk of carbon lock-in. Nature Energy, 9, 1021–1031. Link
    Coverage: Princeton SPIA
    Policy brief submitted to China's State Council
  5. Shangwei Liu, Hongxun Liu, Denise L. Mauzerall (2023). Improving building envelope efficiency lowers costs and emissions from rural residential heating in China. Environmental Science & Technology, 57, 595–605. Link
  6. Liqun Peng, Yang Guo, Shangwei Liu, Gang He, Denise L. Mauzerall (2024). Subsidizing grid-based electrolytic hydrogen could increase GHG emissions in coal dominated power systems. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(12), 5187–5195. Link
  7. Xin Tian, Yiling Xiong, Shangwei Liu, Zhipeng Tang (2020). Deciphering the pattern of inter-provincial water stress transferring: A case study on China's mainland. China Population, Resources and Environment. 30(12): 75–83. Link
  8. Shangwei Liu, Xin Tian, Yiling Xiong, Yan Zhang, Hiroki Tanikawa (2020). Challenges towards carbon dioxide emissions peak under in-depth socioeconomic transition in China: Insights from Shanghai. Journal of Cleaner Production, 247, 119083. Link
  9. Yiling Xiong, Xin Tian, Shangwei Liu, Zhipeng Tang (2020). New patterns in China's water footprint: analysis of spatial and structural transitions from a regional perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production, 245, 118942. Link
  10. Jie Wang, Yiling Xiong, Xin Tian, Shangwei Liu, Jiashuo Li, Hiroki Tanikawa (2018). Stagnating CO2 emissions with in-depth socioeconomic transition in Beijing. Applied Energy, 228, 1714–1725. Link
  11. Shangwei Liu, Xin Tian, Wenjia Cai, Weiqiang Chen, Yafei Wang (2018). How the transitions in iron and steel and construction material industries impact China's CO2 emissions: comprehensive analysis from an inter-sector linked perspective. Applied Energy, 211, 64–75. Link