Research

Selected working papers

1. Hu, G., Lou, J.*, Shen, X., (2024) “Assessing the impacts of offshore wind developments on property values in the United States” (Under Review)

2. Lou, J.*, Hu, G., Shen, X., Zhu, M., Cui, R.Y., (2024) “Quantify the economy-wide employment effect from renewable energy (wind farms and wind manufacturers): two different cases China and the United States.” (Under Review)

3. Hu, W., Zhang, X., Lou, J.*, “Coupling Environmental Policy with Supply-side or Demand-side Interventions: Impacts on Green Innovation, Environmental, and Economic Performance” (Energy Strategy Reviews, R&R)

4. Lou, J.*, and Niemeier, D., “Is the EV-Ready Package Truly EV-Ready? Assessing the Efficacy of Howard County's Compulsory Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Infrastructure Implementation” (Nature Communications, R&R)

5. Squire, C., Lou, J.*, Hilde, T., Parker, K., Schreier, M., Sari, A., Lohff, L., Shah, K., Hultman, N., “Indonesia's land use dilemma: Balancing food security, bioenergy expansion, and deforestation risks.” (Nature Sustainability, R&R)

6. Schreier, M., Lou, J.*, Dahiwadkar, A., Squire, C., Brashear, E., Hultman, N., “Building a Dataset of Indonesian Industrial Parks: Assessing Their Role in the Energy Transition and Local Environmental Impacts”.  (Under Review)

7. Lou, J., Dule, A., Shen, X., “Analyzing the Equity Impact of the NEVI Plan: A Comprehensive Assessment”. (Under Review)

Book chapter

1. Lou, J.*, Rowangould, D., Karner, A., Niemeier, D., “Access to Voting and Participation: Does the Policy of Limiting Mail-In Ballot Dropbox Locations in Ohio Suppress Voter Turnout?” In Lessons Learned from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election: Hindsight Is 2020, edited by Joseph A. Coll and Joseph Anthony, 101–37. Elections, Voting, Technology. Palgrave Macmillan Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023.

Peer-reviewed papers

1. Hu, W., Zhang, X., Lou, J.*, “Unlocking Synergy: The Coevolution Mechanism of Enterprises’ Green Innovation Decisions Under China’s Energy-saving Regulations” (Energy Economics, accepted)

2. Shen, X.*, Lou, J.*, Edwards, M.*, “Old Homes, New Inequities: Building Stock Drives Racial Disparities in Heat Pump Use in the United States.” Energy Research & Social Science 126 (2025).

3. Jahan, M., Bhowmik, T., Borjigin, S., Lou, J., Ugwu, N., Niemeier, D., Eluru, N., (Novebmer 18, 2024). A Maximum Log-Likelihood Based Data Fusion Model for Estimating Household’s Vehicle Purchase Decision, Transportation Letters, DOI: 10.1080/19427867.2024.2430109

4. Lou, J.*, Yu, S., Miller, A., Cui, R., Hultman, N., “A Provincial Analysis on Wind and Solar Investment Needs towards China’s Carbon Neutrality.” Applied Energy 378 (January 2025): 124841. 

5. Lou, J.*, Hu, G., Shen, X., Cui, R.Y., (2025) “Quantifying the economy-wide employment effects of coal-fired power plants: Two different cases China and the United States."  Applied Energy Volume 377, Part C

6. Lou, J.*, Shen, X., Cui, Niemeier, D., Hultman N., “Income and Racial Disparity in Household Publicly Available EV Infrastructure Accessibility.” (2024) Nature Communications.

7. Squire, C., Lou, J.*, Hilde, T., “The Viability of Co-Firing Biomass Waste to Mitigate Coal Plant Emissions in Indonesia.” Communications Earth & Environment 5, no. 1 (August 10, 2024): 423.

8. Lou, J.*, Rader, A., Gultom, Y., Hilde, T., “Navigating SDG 8 in the Decarbonizing Landscape of Emerging Economies: A Case Study of Indonesia." Sustainable Earth Reviews 7, no. 1 (September 2, 2024): 26. 

9. Zhu, M., Smith, S., Chen, M., Evans, M., Chai, Q., Teng, F., Wang, P., Cheng, X., Li, W., Behrendt, J., Fu, S., Zhang, H., Cui, R., Lou, J., Ahluwalia, M., Hultman, N., Wang, Y., “A Comparative Review of Methane Policies of the United States and China in the Context of US – China,” (2024) Climate Policy.

10. Rowangould, D., Lou, J., Karner, A., Niemeier, D.,“Does Access to Voting Locations Affect the Choice to Vote?” Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives 23 (January 1, 2024): 101029.

11. Lou, J.*, Hultman, N., Patwardhan, A., Mintzer, I., (2023) “Corporate motivations and co-benefit valuation in private climate finance investments through voluntary carbon markets.” npj Climate Action. 

12. Lou, J., Borjigin S., Tang C., Saadat Y., Hu M., and Niemeier D. “Facility Design and Worker Justice: COVID‐19 Transmission in Meatpacking Plants.” American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2023, 1–15.

13. Lou, J.*, Hultman, N., Patwardhan, A., Qui, Y., (2022) “Integrating sustainability into climate finance by quantifying the co-benefits and market impact of carbon projects”, Communications Earth & Environment. 

14. Ku, A., Qiu, Y., Lou, J., Nock, D., and Xing, B., (2022) “Changes in Hourly Electricity Consumption under COVID Mandates: A Glance to Future Hourly Residential Power Consumption Pattern with Remote Work in Arizona.” Applied Energy.

15. Lou, J., Qiu, Y., Ku, A., Nock, D., Xing, B., (2021). “Inequitable and Heterogeneous  Impacts on Electricity Consumption from COVID-19 Mitigation Measures.” IScience, 24, no. 11, 103231. 

16. Cui, R.Y., Hultman, N., Cui, D., McJeon, H., Yu, S., Edwards, M., Sen, A., Song, K., Bowman, C., Clarke, L., Kang, J., Lou, J., Yang, F., Yuan, J., Zhang, W., and Zhu, M., (2021). “A plant-by-plant strategy for high-ambition coal power phaseout in China.” Nature Communications, 12: 1468. 

17. Lou, J.*, Shen, X., and Niemeier, D., (2020). “Are stay-at-home orders more difficult to follow for low-income groups?” Journal of Transport Geography, 89.

18. Hultman, N., Clarke, L., Frisch, C., Kennedy, K., McJeon, H., Cyrs, T., Hansel, P., Bodnar, P., Manion, M., Edwards, M., Cui, R., Bowman, C., Lund, J., Westphal, M., Clapper, A., Jaeger, J., Sen, A., Lou, J., Saha, D., Jaglom, W., Calhoun, K., Igusky, K., deWeese, J., Hammoud, K., Altimirano, J., Dennis, M., Henderson, C., Zwicker, G., O’Neil, J., (2020). “Fusing Subnational with National Climate Action Is Central to Decarbonization: The Case of the United States.” Nature Communications, 11: 5255.

19. Hultman, N.; Lou, J., Hutton, S., (2020). “A review of community co-benefits of the Clean Development.” Environmental Research Letters.

Technical Reports

1. Cui, R., M.A. Borrero, C. Bertram, J. Behrendt, A. Rader, M. George, D. Churlyaev, A. Kreis, J. Lou, X. Fu, A. Miller, T.B. Tibebu, K. O’Keefe, M. Zhu, X. Li, C. Squire, A. Zhao, J. Snarski, B. Buddi, and N. Hultman (2024). “Enhancing Global Ambition for 2035: Assessment of High-Ambition Country Pathways”. Center for Global Sustainability, University of Maryland. 91 pp 

2. Agus P. Sari, Putri A. Agustina, Jiehong Lou, Dwiputra Ramdani, Egi Suarga, (November 2024). “Growing Strong, Growing Green, Growing Renewables: Tripling Renewables and Doubling the Pace of Efficiency Improvement by 2030 in Indonesia.” Landscape Indonesia, Jakarta; Indonesia. Center for Global Sustainability, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

3. Halimatussadiah, Alin, Muhammad Adriansyah, Fachry Abdul Razak Afifi, Yudha Pratama, Teuku Riefky, and Jiehong Lou. “Indonesia’s Decarbonization Plans Diagnostic: A Policy Paper," LPEM-FEBUI Working Paper - 080 July 2024

4. Schreier, M., J., Lou*, A., Dahiwadkar, A., Rader, C., Squire, F., Tumiwa (June 2024). “Industrial Parks in Indonesia: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Industrial Development” . Center for Global Sustainability. 37 pp.

5. M.A. Borrero, R. Cui, C. Squire, J. Lou, A. Bagaskara, D. Arinaldo, R. Wiranegara, C. Dahl, M. Schreier, F. Tumiwa, N. Hultman (June 2024). “1.5°C-aligned coal power transition pathways in Indonesia: Additional strategies beyond the Comprehensive Investment and Policy Plan (CIPP).” Center for Global Sustainability, University of Maryland, College Park, USA; Institute for Essential Services Reform, Jakarta, Indonesia.

6. Squire, C., Lou, J.*, Hilde, T., (February 2024) “How green is biomass co-firing as an emissions abatement strategy?” Center for Global Sustainability, University of Maryland, College Park. 

7. Cui, R., Behrendt, J., Miller, A., Zwerling, Matt., Bertram, C., George, M., Kennedy, S.,  Westphal, M., Borrero, M., Kreis, A., Walton, D., Zhao, A., Canton, A., Chen, S., Iyer, G., Kennedy, K., Khan, Z., Li, Y., Lou, J., McJeon, H., O’Keefe, K., Zhu, M., Hultman, N., (November 2023) “Allof-Society Climate Pathway: Key Policy Levers for 1.5°C-Aligned Action.” Center for Global Sustainability, University of Maryland. 37pp. 

8. Zhu, M., Lou, J., Cui, R., Cheng, X., Li, S., Li, D., Tumiwa, F., Arinaldo, D., Li, W., Hultman, N., (October 2023) “Decarbonizing captive coal power plants in Indonesia and implications for Chinese stakeholders: Trends, challenges and opportunities. ” Center for Global Sustainability, University of Maryland, College Park. 40pp. 

9. Cui, R., Gu, B., Lou, J., Zhao, A., Behrendt, J., Song, J., Clarke, L., Iyer, G., McJeon, H., Wang, Y., Tan, X., Zhu, K., Sheng, Y., Zhai, H., Kong, L., Cheng, Y., Edmonds, J., Sampedro, J., Waldhoff, S., Yu, S., Hultman, N.,(October 2022). “Facilitate high-quality, sustainable growth through a low-carbon transition in the Belt and Road Initiative countries”. Center for Global Sustainability, College Park; Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.

10. Cui, R., McJeon, H., Lou, J., Borrero, M., Squire, C., Yu, S., Hultman, N., (July 2022) “Strategies to Transition away from Russian Gas and Deliver Climate Goals in Germany.” Center for Global Sustainability, University of Maryland, College Park. 19 pp. 

11. Lou, J., Yu,S., Adofoli, V., (2022) “On the Road to Carbon Neutrality: Green Investment Needs in China: An Analysis of the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Provincial Renewable Electricity Investment”. Center for Global Sustainability, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

12. Energy Foundation China, (2020). “Synthesis Report 2020 on China’s Carbon Neutrality: China’s New Growth Pathway: from the 14th Five Year Plan to Carbon Neutrality.” Energy Foundation China, Beijing, China. A

13. Cooley, H., Gleick, P., Lou, J., Mintzer, I., Ha, M., Abraham, S., Arney H., (2020). “Financing Water Supply and Sanitation in a Changing Climate.” Pacific Institute and Water.org, CA. 

14. Frech, J., Lou, J., Sha, Y., and Song, J., (2020). “Public-Private Partnership & Clean Energy Finance: The Green Bank Model (English Version). Center for Global Sustainability.” 

15. Lou, J., Sha, Y, and Song, J., (2020). “Public-Private Partnership & Clean Energy Finance: The Green Bank Model (Chinese Version). Center for Global Sustainability.” 

16. Hultman, N., Clarke, L., and Lou, J. (2019). “Analytical Capacity for Long-Term Strategies.” Case Study. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. 

17. Hultman, N., Kennedy, S., Bowman, C., Sen, A., Krawczyk, W., Lou, J., Frech, J., Sanchez, F., Prada, A., (2018). “Fulfilling America’s Pledge: How States, Cities, and Business Are Leading the United States to a Low-Carbon Future.” Published by the America’s Pledge Initiative on Climate Change and Bloomberg Philanthropies, with the University of Maryland Center for Global Sustainability, Rocky Mountain Institute, and World Resources Institute, New York. 150 pp.