US-CHINA ADVANCED COAL TECHNOLOGY CONSORTIUM, US-CHINA CLEAN ENERGY RESEARACH CENTER: RESEARCH DIRECTION AND PROGRAM OVERVIEW

摘要

In November 2009, President Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao announced the establishment of the $150 million U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) to be funded equally by the two countries to support cooperative work in their individual countries. The Protocol formally establishing the Center was signed at ceremonies in Beijing by U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Chinese Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang, and Chinese National Energy Agency Administrator Zhang Guobao. The CERC was designed to significantly improve the cooperation between the two countries in energy research and development in the areas of clean coal technology and carbon capture, sequestration and storage; clean vehicles; and building energy efficiency. In August, 2010, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of the Advanced Coal Technology Consortium (ACTC) led by West Virginia University as the U.S. participants in the CERC for coal related issues; the China team was announced later that fall and adopted the same name. Initial five year joint work plans for the U.S. and China participants in all three areas were signed on January 11, 2011 during President Hu Jintao's visit to the U.S.