Comments on: Coal Shortages Speed Up China’s Clean Power Plans

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 21:30:00 +0000

China has 30GW excess PV capacity that is sending their companies broke.
China has a 16-30GW undersupply of electricity.
mandate citizens cover their roofs in PV.
2birds 1 stone.

By: sola

sola — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:06:00 +0000

This is extremely good news if accurate. Nobody thought that China would hit a coal capacity road block.

On the other hand, it would explain nicely the big turnaround in Chinese energy policy a couple of months ago for the benefit of renewables. (it was a big surprise that time, now we know the reasons).

All in all, the whole world would benefit if the Chinese actually ran out of coal and they could only import from western countries like the US and Australia. Besides imports being very expensive for them, their national pride wouldn’t allow them to become dependent on import coal for energy generation.

By: sola

sola — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:00:00 +0000

That should be 15cents/kwh, not $15/kwh.

$15/kwh would be EXTREMELY expensive and out of the world, even for CSP.