• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Xizhou Zhou

S&P Global

Vice President, Gas, Power & Climate Solutions

Xizhou Zhou is a vice president in the Gas, Power and Climate Solutions group at S&P Global Commodity Insights where he leads the company’s power and renewables practice globally. He has expertise in electric power and gas market fundamentals analysis and forecasting, power market design and policy analysis, renewable energy business models, and company strategies. Prior to current position, Mr. Zhou served as the head of the Power, Gas, Coal, and Renewables division in the Asia Pacific region for IHS Markit before its merger with S&P Global. In this capacity, he played a pivotal role in the substantial expansion of the firm's reach by establishing new research and consulting teams in key locations including Beijing, Singapore, Penang, Delhi, Seoul, Tokyo, and Brisbane, fostering the growth of the company’s energy business in the region. Mr. Zhou began his career at S&P Global through one of its predecessor companies, Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), as part of its Emerging Markets and Global Power groups in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Before that, he worked as a consultant on regulatory economics for Industrial Economics, Inc. in Boston and as a research analyst at the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C. Mr. Zhou holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Environmental Management, both from Yale University. He’s based in Washington, D.C.

Sessions With Xizhou Zhou

Wednesday, 20 March

  • 05:00pm - 05:40pm (CST) / 20/mar/2024 10:00 pm - 20/mar/2024 10:40 pm

    Making Money while Decarbonizing: Challenge for power markets
    Power/Clean Power

    As renewable energy deployment accelerates across the world, pioneering regions like Europe are already seeing more negative prices in wholesale power markets. As renewable penetration continues to rise, this downward price trend is putting pressure on not just renewable generators but also gas, coal, nuclear and other technologies operating in and relying on revenues from organized markets. How will power market players make money in a market with depressed wholesale prices? Is the deregulated power market construct compatible with a decarbonized grid dominated by zero marginal cost resources? What market reforms have been proposed to meet these new challenges?  

Thursday, 21 March

  • 10:30am - 11:10am (CST) / 21/mar/2024 03:30 pm - 21/mar/2024 04:10 pm

    Tripling Renewables by 2030: How to get there?
    Power/Clean Power

    One of COP28’s big breakthroughs was a pledge to triple global renewable energy capacity by 2030. But reaching this ambitious goal will require new policies and a significant ramp up in investments. It will also require accelerating deployment across both mature markets such as China, Europe and North America as well as the “Global South,” which have substantially different advantages and challenges. How achievable is this goal for different governments? What are the main obstacles in key markets? What can be done to get the world closer to this “tripling” goal?