The Globalization of Clean Energy Technology

Thank you to Kelly Sims Gallagher for this important contribution to the literature on technology transfer, clean energy, and China. Her thorough research, thoughtful analysis, and clear writing make this a must-read for anyone working on these topics.

David Sandalow, Inaugural Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University; author of Freedom from Oil

Kelly Sims Gallagher's The Globalization of Clean Energy Technology is an essential text for anyone seeking to understand the technical intricacies of technology diffusion. Gallagher's focus on how green technology is transferred to and from China is artfully built around four case studies of gas turbines, cleaner vehicle batteries, solar photovoltaics, and coal gasification. She provides an in-the-trenches account of the challenges of export controls, cost barriers, research and development limitations, and market failures. She debunks myths about the key role of intellectual property disputes to clarify the critical importance of market-formation policies. Impressive, thoroughly researched, and important for global sustainability.

Judith Shapiro, Director, Natural Resources and Sustainable Development MA, School of International Service at American University; author of China's Environmental Challenges and Mao's War against Nature

A most insightful look into China's clean energy technology innovation. The book provides novel perspectives and a most welcome debunking of traditional myths on technology transfer barriers to clean energy technology development and diffusion.

Arnulf Grubler, Professor in the Field of Energy and Technology, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University; Acting Program Leader, Transitions to New Technologies, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

This useful book—a thorough piece of practical research—looks closely at how clean energy technologies such as gas turbines, advanced batteries, solar photovoltaics, and coal gasification emerged and spread to China.

Foreign Affairs