New research published in Nature Communications develops a bottom-up model to test the capabilities of the grid to accommodate renewable power variability and to design the optimal investment plans for offshore wind power. The new paper from the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment, a U.S.-China collaborative research program based at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and collaborators at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in China, is one of the first to analyze opportunities for province-by-province grid integration of renewables at elevated levels of offshore investment.