Clean energy poised to take bigger share

Renewable energy is expected to make up 10 percent of the country's energy mix by 2010, up 2.5 percentage points from the current level, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said yesterday.

The NDRC announcement, part of the national renewable energy program for 2006 to 2010, came with concerns that the country's total energy consumption will in two years surpass the equivalent of a targeted 3 billion tons of coal at the current pace of economic development.

"China is rich in renewable resources but we need sophisticated technologies," the commission said in the program report.