Dr. CAI Guotian, researcher and doctoral supervisor, serves as Director of the Energy Strategy and Carbon Assets Research Center at the Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He holds multiple prestigious positions including Deputy Director of the Resource Flow and Management Professional Committee of the China Natural Resources Society, expert in the Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission's Strategic Expert Pool, environmental protection consultant expert for the 14th Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress, and Vice Chairman of the Guangdong Energy Conservation Engineering Technology Innovation Promotion Association. His research focuses on energy and dual-carbon strategies, energy technology roadmaps, and energy geography. Since June 2007, he has led or participated in over 30 national and provincial-level research projects, accumulating extensive experience in formulating energy strategy-planning-policy systems at various administrative levels. Dr. CAI has published more than 70 academic papers, authored/translated 3 monographs, contributed to 4 edited volumes, and supervised over 20 master's/doctoral students and 4 postdoctoral researchers.

Selected Publications

1. Wenjie Du, Guotian Cai*, et al. An integrated spatiotemporal techno-economic assessment of offshore renewable energy complementarity: A case study in China's maritime zones. Applied Energy 410 (2026) 127513.

2. Xiaoyu Chen, Guotian Cai*, et al. Global perspectives on wind energy innovation: Policy impacts and component-level analysis. Energy 319 (2025) 135000.

3. Zhou Zhou, Guotian Cai*, et al. Spatial and temporal evolution of cost-competitive offshore hydrogen in China: A techno-economic analysis. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 203 (2024) 114780.

4. Yushu Chen, Guotian Cai*, et al. Spatiotemporally explicit pathway and material-energy-emission nexus of offshore wind energy development in China up to the year 2060. Resources,Conservation&Recycling183(2022)106349.

5. Liping Gao, Guotian Cai*, et al. Research on spatial layout optimization of offshore wind farms integration in deep-water area:Taking Eastern Guangdong as an example. Journal of Natural Resources 2022, 37(4): 910-923.

▪ Energy Strategy and Policy Analysis

▪ Digital Energy and Energy Geography

▪ Carbon Asset Research

1. National Key R&D Program Project: Dynamic Assessment of Carbon Emissions in Energy Value Chains and Intelligent Decision-Making for Carbon Reduction, 2022-11 to 2025-10.

2. China Southern Power Grid Project: Development of a High-Precision Regional New Energy Development Resource Database, 2023-10 to 2025.5.

3. Collaborative Fund Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Clean Energy Innovation Institute: Key Technologies for Spatial Coupling Analysis of Material Flow, Power Flow, and Socio-Economic Metabolism in Offshore Wind Power Systems—A Case Study of Guangdong Province, 2021-07 to 2023-07.

4. China Engineering Academy Regional Cooperation Project: Research on Technological Innovation Cooperation Between Fujian and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, 2020-11 to 2022-05.

5. Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Plan Project: Research on Spatial Big Data Analysis and Application of Resource and Environmental Management Decision Support Platform, 2018-05 to 2021-05.