Database of Chinese Overseas Renewable Energy Projects Tracking 1,400+ Installations

D-CORE tracks over 1,400 renewable energy projects outside mainland China involving Chinese enterprises as developers, contractors, suppliers, investors, or financiers. The dataset includes host country and sub-national location, technology type, installed capacity, participating entities, project stage, milestone timeline, and financing arrangements. It is produced by the International Institute of Green Finance and the Institute of Development Studies, with data updated through June 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze the geographic distribution of Chinese overseas renewable investment based on host country and sub-national location data
• Track the evolution of project financing arrangements and the role of Chinese state-owned enterprises
• Compare technology adoption trends (solar PV, wind, hydropower, etc.) across different regions and over time
• Study the project development pipeline and milestone timelines for international renewable energy initiatives

Strengths

• Contains over 1,400 project-level records with data updated through June 2026
• Compiled via an AI-assisted extraction pipeline with deduplication and entity/location normalization from public news and corporate disclosures
• Captures multiple dimensions including technology type, capacity, developer, stage, timeline, and financing

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data may reflect source bias inherent to public news and corporate disclosures

Provenance

Source

International Institute of Green Finance (IIGF) at the Central University of Finance and Economics, in collaboration with Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

Collection Method

Compiled from public news and corporate disclosures via an AI-assisted extraction pipeline with deduplication and entity/location normalization

Time Range

Data updated through June 2026

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-07 00:44:36

Geography

Projects located outside mainland China