Qi Ding

Qi Ding

Ph.D. candidate in Management Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University, developing and solving large-scale optimization models of power and energy systems.

Publications

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Journal Articles

The role of shared autonomous electric vehicles in decarbonizing China’s passenger transport sector

Published in Applied Energy, 422, 128259, 2026

A China TIMES 2.0 assessment of fleet, energy, emissions, and material implications under alternative shared-autonomous-electric-vehicle pathways.

Recommended citation: Ding, Q., Ren, J., Zhang, S., and Chen, W. (2026). "The role of shared autonomous electric vehicles in decarbonizing China's passenger transport sector." Applied Energy, 422, 128259.
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Assessing China’s Province-Coordinated Power System Carbon-Neutral Transition Pathway

Published in Journal of Energy and Climate Change, 1(1), 1–15, 2025

A China TIMES-30PE analysis of coordinated provincial power-sector transitions, renewable deployment, storage, transmission, and investment needs.

Recommended citation: Chen, W., Zhang, S., Zhang, Q., Ren, J., and Ding, Q. (2025). "Assessing China's Province-Coordinated Power System Carbon-Neutral Transition Pathway." Journal of Energy and Climate Change, 1(1), 1–15.
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Working Papers

Commonalities and differences in national pathways toward net-zero emissions

Preprint — revision in progress, 2026

A coordinated comparison of national net-zero scenarios covering 23 countries and 38 models developed under a common protocol.

Recommended citation: Pathak, A., Vishwanathan, S. S., Fujimori, S., et al. (including Ding, Q.) (2026). "Commonalities and differences in national pathways toward net-zero emissions." Research Square, Version 1.
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Presentations

Integrating End-Use Flexibility and Climate-Stress Analysis into Sector-Coupled Energy Transition Pathways

Published in 19th Annual Meeting of the Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium, 2026

Oral presentation on a sector-coupled framework linking end-use flexibility, climate stress, and power-system analysis.

Recommended citation: Ding, Q., et al. (2026). "Integrating End-Use Flexibility and Climate-Stress Analysis into Sector-Coupled Energy Transition Pathways." Oral presentation, 19th Annual Meeting of the IAM Consortium.
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Operational Resilience Value of EV Flexibility under Historically Grounded Climate Stress

Published in Tsinghua Heli Anbang Joint Doctoral Academic Forum, 2025

Oral presentation on the operational resilience value of electric-vehicle flexibility under climate stress.

Recommended citation: Ding, Q., et al. (2025). "Operational Resilience Value of EV Flexibility under Historically Grounded Climate Stress." Oral presentation, Tsinghua Heli Anbang Joint Doctoral Academic Forum.

Economic-Carbon Misalignment in Photovoltaic-Storage Retrofits for 1,000 Public Charging Stations in Beijing

Published in 20th National Environmental Doctoral Academic Conference, 2025

Oral presentation on the misalignment between economic and carbon objectives in PV-storage retrofits at charging stations.

Recommended citation: Ding, Q., et al. (2025). "Economic-Carbon Misalignment in Photovoltaic-Storage Retrofits for 1,000 Public Charging Stations in Beijing." Oral presentation, 20th National Environmental Doctoral Academic Conference.

Reports

Work in Progress

Spatial supply chains for hydrogen-derived fuels

Research in progress, 2026

Where should hydrogen, ammonia, methanol, and sustainable-aviation-fuel equivalents be produced, and how should strategic transport infrastructure evolve as demand changes across China?

Recommended citation: Ding, Q. (in progress). "Spatial supply chains for hydrogen-derived fuels."

EV flexibility and power-system resilience under climate stress

Working paper, 2026

How do historically grounded extreme-weather events alter operational stress in a future power system, and when can smart charging or vehicle-to-grid operation provide credible resilience value?

Recommended citation: Ding, Q. (in progress). "EV flexibility and power-system resilience under climate stress."

Coupling long-term pathways with hourly power-system analysis

Method development, 2026

How can national and provincial transition scenarios be translated into spatially and temporally explicit power-system inputs without losing traceability across model boundaries?

Recommended citation: Ding, Q. (in progress). "Coupling long-term pathways with hourly power-system analysis."

Charging-infrastructure retrofit planning

Model development, 2026

How should photovoltaic generation and battery storage be sized across heterogeneous public charging stations, and how do economic and lifecycle-emissions objectives change the preferred deployment strategy?

Recommended citation: Ding, Q. (in progress). "Charging-infrastructure retrofit planning."