China hopes to cut green house gas emissions and increase its renewable energy to maintain a sustainable economic growth and is plugging more than two trillion Yuan to meet its renewable energy target by 2020.
Renewable energy sources such as hydropower, solar, wind, bio fuels are some of the options they are looking into. At the moment, seventy percent of China’s total energy is powered by coal.
What is renewable energy? Renewable energy can offer inexhaustible power generated by the natural processes of wind, sun, water, plant growth, and heat from the earth being converted into power, steam and heat. Collectively, the energy captured by these technologies is referred to as renewables according to repp.
China hopes to increase the capacity of hydropower, solar power and wind power generation by 190 million kilowatts, 29 million kilowatts and 1.73 million kilowatts respectively between 2006 and 2020.
China’s medium and long-term target is to boost its fledging renewable energy industry, according to Chen Deming, vice minister of NDRC. He hopes that this could sustain the country’s future economic development.
