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China goes Green - some facts. - 25th January 2010
LPG Vehicles
The Shanghai taxi company runs its fleet of 50,000 Volkswagens on LPG.
Solar Power
China's commitment to solar energy is massive. Heres a relevant excerpt from a recent New York Times column by Thomas Friedman: "Bill Gross, who runs eSolar, a promising California solar-thermal start-up announced the biggest solar-thermal deal ever. Its a 2 gigawatt, $5 billion deal to build plants in China using our California-based technology. China is being even more aggressive than the U.S. We applied for a [U.S. Department of Energy] loan for a 92 megawatt project in New Mexico, and in less time than it took them to do stage one of the application review, China signs, approves, and is ready to begin construction this year on a 20 times bigger project!
Wind Power
The situation is much the same regarding China's commitment to wind power. Blessed with strong desert winds in Gansu Province, they are building numerous mega-sized wind farms totaling 20 megawatts of output by 2020, and at a third of the costs in the West. According to the Global Wind Energy Council, China has doubled its wind power capacity every year for the past five.
Nuclear
China is going nuclear. Locally, here in tropical Sanya, Hainan Island, I recently met a German who was a project manager in Chinas nuclear sector. He told me they were working on the planning project to build 21 more nuclear power plants in the coming decade. The recent article by Friedman states China plans to build more than 50 nuclear power plants by 2020.
