China Proposes 75% Increase To 2030 Renewable Energy Target
China’s National Development & Reform Commission (NDRC) has written a draft policy that would increase the renewable energy target from 20% to 35% by 2030.
China’s National Development & Reform Commission (NDRC) has written a draft policy that would increase the renewable energy target from 20% to 35% by 2030.
The Renewable Cities Global Learning Forum was held in Vancouver, Canada. So, naturally, Canada got more attention that it would have if the forum had been in Dallas, Texas. One of the opening night PechaKucha presentations was from Clean Energy Canada’s Merran Smith (also see my presentation on “The Future … [continued]
New data suggest that China, the world’s #1 CO2 emitter, has succeeded in decoupling coal use from economic output since its coal consumption growth began slowing down in 2012. Data recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China indicate that China coal consumption fell by 2.9% in 2014. Also … [continued]
Originally published on The Tyee. By Geoff Dembicki. We’re not totally screwed. I doubt Ethan Zindler would use those exact words to describe the rapid global transition to cleaner forms of energy he’s spent the past eight years or so tracking for Bloomberg New Energy Finance. But that’s the feeling I … [continued]
A recent order by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has sounded the death knell for about 75% of the country’s solar panel and related component manufacturers. The ministry has released a list of 134 companies which will be eligible to receive credit support from financial institutions. The companies which failed … [continued]
NYSE-listed ReneSola has signed an agreement with a Chinese company to sell three utility-based solar power plants with a total generation capacity of 60 MW. The utility-scale power plants are located in China’s Qinghai and Xinjiang provinces and are connected to the grid. ReneSola is a solar PV products solution provider … [continued]
A recent Ernst & Young (EY) study found that the global cleantech sector grew a staggering $26 billion in the last fiscal year. The study analyzed 424 companies, only including companies that got over half of their value from clean energy business. It found that these 424 companies employed 512,500 people … [continued]
Two statements in the video were most interesting to me. For one, a spokesman for Newcom (the owner of the wind farm) remarked that Mongolia has enough wind resources in one Southern province (I assume he was talking about Ömnögovi (meaning “South Gobi”) to power all of China. That’s true. It … [continued]
It is a well known fact that China is the leader in developing domestic renewable energy infrastructure, but an analysis of the country’s foreign investment shows that it has also made significant contributions in the development of renewable energy infrastructure across the world. The Chinese government and Chinese companies have made investments of at least $40 billion in renewable energy projects across … [continued]
The United States prides itself on being “#1.” Unfortunately, we actually aren’t number one on a long list of things, and we’re pretty far down there on some important indices. In this video and post below, Sarah Backhouse of Future360 runs down a few of the cleantech categories in which … [continued]